Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Spare by Prince Harry

57 reviews

puffball's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

It feels weird rating someone’s life, so I’ll eschew giving it a star rating and just say I wouldn’t recommend this if you’re a fan of the monarchy. Also, it definitely shows how toxic the press, especially the British press, can be and that real reform needs to happen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, War, Miscarriage, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Suicide

buttermellow's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, War, and Pregnancy

Minor: Colonisation, Suicide, and Racism

kmaron's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide and Death

kathrynok's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcohol, Car accident, Racism, Bullying, Drug use, Grief, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Self harm, War, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Minor: Gun violence, Animal death, Miscarriage, Suicide, Colonisation, and Violence

lesty_gibbs's review

emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

For a memoir it's incredibly long, I found myself constantly going "how much longer is there," and getting disappointed by the length. That being said, it's certainly not a bad book - Harry's got a terrific ghost writer, and his narration is really good. 

Some memoirs I would recommend regardless of topic, but this isn't one of them. Especially with it's length, it's the sort of book I think is really only enjoyable if you're interested in Harry, the Royal family, and their relationship with the media. Harry's relationship with the media is the core part of this book, and the way being raised so scrutinized in the public eye (while dealing with debilitating grief) affects someone is really eye opening. If you're looking for a book criticising the monarchy as an institution though, this isn't it. 

There's definitely some things in it that I'd have rather not known (Harry's frostbitten appendage is one that is I'd agree with the media coverage is pretty tmi), but it's no where near as scandalous as a lot of the media coverage is suggesting. Overall, it's a sad coming of age story about a kid who lost his mum.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Stalking, and War

Minor: Car accident, Racism, and Suicide

kharcourt's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

4.75

Incredibly well crafted memoir. So vulnerable and a pleasure to read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Drug use, and Death

maggiecburns's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Minor: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

cheuksin's review

dark emotional funny informative sad tense slow-paced

3.75

This book is essentially trauma dumping for 400 pages. I never thought I’d feel sympathy for a royal yet here I am. 

The tunnel is called Pont de l'Alma, I told him.
Yes, yes. He knew it.
I want to go through it.
You want to go through the tunnel?
At sixty-five miles per hour - to be precise.
Sixty-five?
Yes.
The exact speed Mummy's car had supposedly been driving 

Wow. The ghostwriter really worked some magic. At some times it does feel like someone tried to stretch an sentence into and essay. Harry mentions his mother in pretty much every paragraph. Oversharing is a understatement. 

Honestly, anyone who could hate Harry and Megan after reading this book is a heartless bastard. My neutral opinion of Will and Kate has also depreciated.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gun violence, Racism, Sexual assault, Stalking, and War

Moderate: Xenophobia, Drug use, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Minor: Infertility, Trafficking, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Rape, and Suicide

i_island's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful slow-paced

4.75

This is a book that can only be described as an extremely (sometimes too much) intimate look at the life of a guy that everyone ‘knew about’, but really didn’t.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Death, Death of parent, and Stalking

Minor: Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Miscarriage

kjgravelle's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Car accident

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Drug use, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization, Alcohol, Colonisation, Racism, Suicide, Physical abuse, and Car accident