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Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family
Omid Scobie, Carolyn Durand
3.25 AVERAGE
369 reviews for:
Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family
Omid Scobie, Carolyn Durand
3.25 AVERAGE
Completely and totally biased view of Meghan and Harry. Besmirches the good work of journalists everywhere because the so-called "reporters" continually insinuate their opinion that the Royal Family is bad and Meghan and Harry are God's gift to humanity on every page. If I believed this book, then Meghan is the second coming of Diana and we should all be grateful she's deigned to let us breathe the same air. If they want to leave the royal family and become private people, fine but don't make multi-million dollar deals with major media companies.
I loved this, but I'm definitely biased because I love Meghan and Harry. It was clearly more about Meghan individually, as well as their relationship, than Harry individually, but I was fine with that. People dogged on it for making her look too perfect, but honestly, I thought that it straddled a line of looking at her favorably (which basically all biographies do), but not making her seem wildly unrealistic. The ending got a little dull, but that is probably just because it was all relatively recent news. Good stuff if you love the royals.
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I made it through the first 6 chapters. The book reads like the author is pushing you to think Meghan is the most amazing person. It just doesn’t feel genuine. I like the Sussex’s but this book was just not good.
People really making fake accounts just to give this a one star rating, huh?
Finding Freedom is about the journey of Harry and Megan from the time they met until exiting from the Royal family.
There was nothing explosive in the book, no juicy details about anything that we haven’t already heard about. At the end of the day Megan never had a chance with the British media. No matter how many charities she became apart of she would ultimately never be good enough for the people or the press much less Harry.
There was nothing explosive in the book, no juicy details about anything that we haven’t already heard about. At the end of the day Megan never had a chance with the British media. No matter how many charities she became apart of she would ultimately never be good enough for the people or the press much less Harry.
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It's possible that you could like this book a lot more than I did, but basically, if you've been Online to any substantial extent in the last four years, you already know most of what this book has to tell you. The only new information for me were some of the behind the scenes chapters surrounding the logistics of establishing their own household and then the birth of their child. And I don't even follow this stuff super closely!
But even if the information is new to you, the way it is written here is just an absolute snoozefest. And I totally get why! These royals reporters need to maintain their access and they will not be able to do that if they write anything less than flattering. But this was borderline hagiographic, to the extent that I kept snickering thinking of the biography about Rebecca Porter from [b:The Royal We|22875451|The Royal We (Royal We, #1)|Heather Cocks|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1421107274l/22875451._SY75_.jpg|42439906] - this real book sounds a lot like that made-up, over-the-top one.
So this book might be most interesting because of what it does not say and does not include, such as a single whisper about William's supposed infidelity or any real insight into Kate and Meghan's relationship.
But even if the information is new to you, the way it is written here is just an absolute snoozefest. And I totally get why! These royals reporters need to maintain their access and they will not be able to do that if they write anything less than flattering. But this was borderline hagiographic, to the extent that I kept snickering thinking of the biography about Rebecca Porter from [b:The Royal We|22875451|The Royal We (Royal We, #1)|Heather Cocks|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1421107274l/22875451._SY75_.jpg|42439906] - this real book sounds a lot like that made-up, over-the-top one.
So this book might be most interesting because of what it does not say and does not include, such as a single whisper about William's supposed infidelity or any real insight into Kate and Meghan's relationship.
This was a fun read, even though much of the media has leaked the gossipy parts. At the end I was getting a little annoyed at the formulaic explanations of what the media said vs. what actually happened, especially when there never seemed to be any fault of Harry and Meghan’s. But when it’s a book about you and you “co-wrote it,”