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avery_hutchinson's review
4.0
Graphic: Stalking
Moderate: War
booksandcat's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Racism, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Torture, Grief, Mental illness, Car accident, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, and War
hawk_just_hawk's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: War and Stalking
Moderate: Racism and Sexism
rmpearcy's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Bullying, Car accident, Stalking, Alcohol, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racism
Moderate: Classism, Death, Grief, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and War
This does cover some of the details of Princess Diana's death and Prince Harry's feelings on it.loloburns's review against another edition
3.5
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.
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
alliejm00's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Gaslighting, Ableism, Grief, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Bullying, Car accident, Emotional abuse, and War
Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy
Minor: Drug use and Animal death
vaguely_pink's review against another edition
2.5
And not too much about the monarchy or whatever. But perhaps too much about the war. And his frostbitten penis.
I suppose I can sympathize with having a hard time editing out bits of your life when composing a memoir, especially when that life has been lived so publicly and with such scrutiny over events that were inaccurately reported. And when you've endured so much trauma. But this book was entirely too long and often felt disjointed. I often tuned out during the middle section of the book where he goes on for eons about how much he loved the war.
Which is a shame because he has some very poignant and important things to say about how we treat those in the public eye. You just have to endure many stories about flying helicopters and camping in Botswana that you might not be interested in and paragraphs of the former Prince of Wales reminding you of all the "great work" he's done.
At the end of the day, if you're at all intrigued by the inner workings of the British monarchy and Harry specifically, Spare is probably worth a read. Just be aware that it definitely needed a more discerning editor.
Graphic: Classism, Grief, Gun violence, and War
Moderate: Death of parent, Stalking, Alcohol, Bullying, Car accident, Cursing, Drug use, Medical content, and Racism
Minor: Colonisation, Miscarriage, Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts
plantedjess's review against another edition
3.5
Moderate: War, Car accident, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Stalking, and Death of parent
theverycraftyvegan's review against another edition
5.0
This is a very heavy book and I cried many times listening to his recount of very painful topics: his mother’s death, 9/11, self medicating with drugs and alcohol, going to war, racism against his wife and children, threats against their lives, the loss of an unborn child, the toxicity of his family, the death of the Queen, and the paparazzi who refuse(d) to let them live their lives.
This was a highly enjoyable and deeply moving memoir, even for an anti-monarchist living in the colonized commonwealth.
Graphic: Racial slurs, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Racism, Alcohol, Classism, Gun violence, Hate crime, Drug use, Animal death, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Mental illness, War, Death, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Violence, Bullying, Car accident, and Cursing
Moderate: Antisemitism, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Animal cruelty, Abandonment, Blood, Colonisation, Miscarriage, and Kidnapping
aloy's review against another edition
3.5
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