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Spare by Prince Harry

177 reviews

kiwichill's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Grief, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal death, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Drug use, and Racism

Minor: Gun violence, Bullying, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Infidelity, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Deportation, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Hate crime

katelynprice's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and War

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Cursing, and Miscarriage

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Drug use

lindseybarnett's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Car accident, and Death

Moderate: Mental illness, Alcohol, Cursing, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, War, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Racial slurs

carriehaley89's review against another edition

emotional informative fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: War and Car accident

Minor: Miscarriage

kassidypf13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, War, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

sareidle's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

Before reading the book proper, I had heard some excerpts of the audiobook and I think that the portions that got attention prove Harry's point about the tabloids and public scrutiny. He talks a lot about the heir/spare dynamic and how he was set up to be the clown of the family. Even when he tried to do something of substance, his past mistakes would be brought up to discredit him and make him a joke. So part of revealing the embarrassing, fascinating stories is to signal to the British press that they cannot blackmail him since he divulged them on his terms.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Grief, and Bullying

Moderate: Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Racism, Stalking, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Drug use, and Miscarriage

beaubaggins's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Classism, Stalking, War, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Hate crime, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Mental illness, Death, Addiction, Sexism, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

itsgnat's review against another edition

informative inspiring sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Racism, Death of parent, Car accident, War, Emotional abuse, and Pregnancy

dmswack3's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

I usually avoid memoirs and biographies due to their voyeuristic feel, but something about 2023 has made me want to listen to a few, and Spare was undoubtedly one of them. 

I highly enjoyed the narration Prince Harry gave, and the story itself was fun to listen to. His ghost writers was phenomenal in my opinion. I'm very glad I listened to it instead of reading it, however, because I think I would have found myself bored by some of the longer chapters had it not been read to me. 

Something else for readers to be weary of besides long chapters and perhaps boring text, should you choose to read this rather than listen- this story bares all... Like ALL. You will hear a LOT about the Prince's... Todger, as he calls it. Like a LOT. Where it's been, who's seen it, how it's been injured so uh. Fair warning there. 

Beyond the todger, this book really doesn't pull punches. I saw shocked at points, angered at others, cried at some. But I also felt myself thinking: is it all true? God I hope not. It's that bad. 

Give it a listen. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Suicide, Car accident, Infertility, Child death, Islamophobia, Toxic friendship, Violence, War, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Death, Miscarriage, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Alcohol, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Hate crime, Addiction, Racial slurs, and Sexual harassment

star's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.25

this one kind of dragged for me. ive been on-and-off into reading about the royal family for years (mostly as a curiosity - being from america) but this has really made me rethink my media reading habits. however, parts of this book were downright boring. i did cry several times (mostly around the stuff to do about death). i read the hardcover version of this book (i picked it up for free at a little free library) and it was over 400 pages long - which i thought to be much too long while reading, but honestly it does give a ton of detail and sorely needed context to some of his larger missteps. 

i was planning while reading to give this book about 2 - 2.5 stars, but i think that the last 1/3 of the book (aka: the parts with meghan and the break with the family) seriously bumped this to a 3.25.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, War, Grief, Death of parent, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Miscarriage