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Spare by Prince Harry

22 reviews

abi_lowe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Racism, Bullying, and Car accident

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Stalking, Drug use, War, Violence, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Medical content

cleotheo's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Abandonment, War, Drug use, Torture, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Grief, Classism, Death, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Colonisation

Minor: Racism and Pandemic/Epidemic

hannahpings's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

ended up liking spare a lot more than i thought i would. a moving, engaging reflection on self-actualization, liberation, and love. this is a man!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Car accident, Death of parent, Drug use, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, and Racism

loloburns's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

This book almost broke me. Its not often it takes me 4 months to finish a book, especially one that I'm interested in, however this book was so narratively dense, with so many details and side tangents that I had to keep stopping to digest it.

As a tell all memoir, I didn't immensely enjoy it, instead, reading it with the mind that it was written by a person. Just a person. Its heartbreaking.

I have never cried as much reading a non fiction book as reading this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, War, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Grief, Classism, Drug use, Death of parent, Racism, Stalking, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Death, Violence, and Car accident

Moderate: Animal death, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Alcoholism

Minor: Vomit, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, and Kidnapping

katelynnelawson's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

While Harry might tell some “TMI” stories, you can’t help but feel he has to or someone else will. Great insight and deeply emotional. If you’ve had to experience distancing yourself from family you love but have difficulty with, it’s especially poignant.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, and Physical abuse

Minor: Death, Drug use, and Alcohol

aloy's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Drug use, Cultural appropriation, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Death, War, Racism, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Classism, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Torture, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Bullying, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Xenophobia, Violence, Pregnancy, Misogyny, and Miscarriage

amelianotthepilot's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

1.0

Truly every chapter is wilder than the last and it's all read by him. I do not fathom how these stories made it past editors but also past his wife. Most of the memoir is a jarring juxtaposition of a deeply mentally unwell child who craves empathy from his family while being delusional about his mother's death contrasted with him talking about his "todger". I really don't know why he talks about it so much but so far it has made an appearance at least 7 times in the first 03:30 hours. Certainly an iconic read.

The audiobook is also unnecessarily 15.5 hours long but honestly all due to the fact that this man reads at a snails pace with a breath in between every other word. 

It’s a psychiatrists playground with not only generational trauma but also family trauma but also war PTSD but also stalker trauma but also maternal death trauma topped off with royal trauma. Truly a wild time. I’m sorry to this man.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, War, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Car accident, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Drug use, Grief, Kidnapping, Bullying, Death, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

the_true_monroe's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, War, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Gaslighting, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Grief, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Medical content, Suicide, Sexism, and Classism

Minor: Classism, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Antisemitism, Excrement, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Slavery, Colonisation, and Cultural appropriation

iinasomnia's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Death of parent, Cursing, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Drug use, Death, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, War, Racism, Xenophobia, Slavery, and Colonisation

Minor: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

venetiana's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

This was interesting, even though I'm very anti-monarchy. I picked it up to hear more about the failures of its system, and of course to hear how Meghan and him got out. 

It's in three parts: roughly, those are 1. Harry's childhood, 2. his time in the army, 3. his time with Meghan.
The childhood/yourh part is of course emotional and sad, but also interesting. The army part absolutely made me cringe, the way he talks about war and killing people etc. (also slightly racist, though I guess trying not to be). The third part was shocking in terms of the violent and racist press, the aggressions within the family/firm etc., but of course also romantic and hopeful. Harry reading the book himself certainly adds to that, and makes it much more personal.

Given how the author has spent his whole life "inside", certain views didn't surprise me, though I was kind of disappointed that he hadn't yet found the time to "adjust" them to a world less enabled by privilege. But I definitely respect how he shared all his traumata (and stories), and how he's working on them. I respect that Meghan and him left, it's a big step, and I think it was important to share and explain what led there.

That being said, one small thing, I felt the book ended quite abruptly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Car accident, Stalking, Racism, and Death of parent

Moderate: Confinement, Ableism, Gun violence, Slavery, Islamophobia, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Violence, Alcohol, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, Drug use, Body shaming, Addiction, Grief, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Mental illness, War, and Xenophobia

The way Harry writes about travelling to Africa isn't always done well, there are sort of mildly racist bits (also, a bit white saviour-y and tourist-y). There are islamophobic/racist bits in the army part (quite violent at times). It's within the frame of the "duty" of war etc., but still.