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Spare by Prince Harry

11 reviews

katie0528's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.75

A tragic memoir as Harry reflects on growing up in the toxic enviorment of the royal family and the invasive paparazzi that led to his mother's death and consumed his own life leaving to his split with the royals. Harry speaks with a deeply reflective voice of someone who has clearly spent years in therapy trying to unpack the toxic world he was raised in. He owns his mistakes and offers a deep empathy to his own family, even as he laments the state of disconnection. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Bullying, Gaslighting, Racism, and Stalking

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, Mental illness, Classism, Alcoholism, and Suicide attempt

danimcthomas's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Beautifully told and enlightening. I knew nothing about the royal family going in. I found the book very sad overall, but it feels hopeful, too. I’m sure it’s biased in some ways, but Harry seems to be very Frank and honest about his own failings as well as his family’s.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Suicide, Suicide attempt, War, Drug use, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Racism, Alcohol, Bullying, Car accident, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

siankrb's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

An honest, funny and moving account of Prince Harry’s life and the challenges that come with being the spare. I thought the book particularly picked up in the third section, talking about Meghan and recent events. Took me a while to get through but I ended up being very moved. Appreciated having an insight into a life completely different from my own. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Blood, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Violence, and War

Moderate: Antisemitism, Gore, Abortion, Animal death, Cultural appropriation, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Car accident, Gaslighting, and Medical content

Minor: Racism, Addiction, Confinement, Alcohol, Classism, Colonisation, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Infidelity, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, and Racial slurs

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

choufrise's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death of parent, Grief, and Drug abuse

Minor: Car accident, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Colonisation, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

deidrelj's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

I didn’t love the super short chapters. It made the storytelling very choppy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Miscarriage and Suicide attempt

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

lisasilv's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

An interesting look into Royal life, although I am sure the truth lies somewhere between what this book says, and with what actually happened. I like that the chapters were short, and that it moved quickly. I listened to the audio book version, and you could hear the emotion from the prince as he read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Moderate: Bullying, Car accident, Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Suicide attempt, and Colonisation

ellaticonstellation's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I have no background about the British monarch or any other one compared to diving into this book. I read this book out of curiosity about Harry and Meghan (Because I've watched Suits before, and I love Rachel, it made me sad when she had to leave the show); the paps were ridiculous, invading people's privacy for photos. Damn, they ruined people's lives. (I know it's their job and all, but still) I saw the advantages and disadvantages of his status. It cost his mum's life. It must be so sad to lose your mother so early. He is privileged and all, but how down-to-earth he was even fangirling over Courtney Cox (aka Monica Geller from Friends, Haha! Spoiler alert: he mentioned that he was a Chandler); I truly enjoyed this memoir because Harry was funny and had a good heart (I say this because he made the paralympics happen and it gave people hope)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, and Abandonment

queerloras's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

this book was a bit of a car-crash - it was like a horrible road accident I couldn't look away from.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Racism, Sexism, Death of parent, War, Colonisation, Death, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Classism, Car accident, Blood, Bullying, Grief, Drug use, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Misogyny

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt