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369 reviews for:
Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family
Omid Scobie, Carolyn Durand
3.24 AVERAGE
369 reviews for:
Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family
Omid Scobie, Carolyn Durand
3.24 AVERAGE
It’s not the best book, but it isn’t the worst either. The jumping back and forth through the narrative made it hard to follow at points, and there were a couple contradictions through the text… only one of which was explained through the interview with Oprah as being the truth. Despite that, I did enjoy reading this book and hearing their side of the story. Is it the absolute truth?
Always interesting to grapple with the concept of how we the public can hear and pass on narratives about public figures, either for good or bad, without making allowance for perspectives, spin, bias, optics, and layers upon layers of interpretation. Without having a strong opinion on the subject of this book, I still found it an interesting read on the problems presented by celebrity.
challenging
hopeful
informative
sad
tense
slow-paced
2.5 rounded up to a 3. I didn’t follow a lot of Harry and Meghan’s relationship until around the time of their wedding, so it was interesting to learn more about them and their story. But I suspect there wasn’t a lot of revealing or fresh insight that couldn’t have been found via a deep dive of Wikipedia and google.
informative
medium-paced
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
informative
medium-paced
TW/CW: Racism, death of a parent, language.
REVIEW:
Book Content:
Finding Freedom is a non-fiction book that tells the story of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle from their meeting (and before) to sometime in 2022.
While I found this to be an interesting and well-researched book, I have to state up front that it is very biased. This is without a doubt a pro-Harry & Meghan book and readers should know that going into it. The authors are clearly very fond of the couple.
Nonetheless, if you read this book with a grain of salt it has a lot of interesting stories and insider information.
Sadly, it doesn’t cover anything after the death of Prince Phillip, which would have been interesting to read.
Audio Narration
This book is narrated by Omid Scobie, one of the authors. He does a very good job and is a pleasure to listen to. I would be lying if I didn’t say that I love his British accent, as well!
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
One would hope that positions of privilege would enable people to struggle less, yet this is a story of serious ongoing struggle. As I read, I applauded Harry and Meghan for making those hard decisions to rise above the toxicity and get themselves free.