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Finding Freedom: Harry, Meghan, and the Making of a Modern Royal Family
by Omid Scobie, Carolyn Durand
relaxing
slow-paced
First and foremost, this book was riddled with typos and errors. The most significant of which is that it says it’s authored by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand when actually it’s written by Meghan Markle and her best friend Gretchen Wieners. This book. Was. DUMB. And so obviously co-written by Meghan that it makes me want to throw up in my mouth. If you are raising your eyebrow, go read Meghan’s guest editor introduction to British Vogue, then read basically the first half of the book, and get back to me. The (bad) writing is identical except the Vogue intro is written in first person narrative and this garbage pail of a book is written “and then, by the horizon of the African sunset, with lions roaring in the distance, MEGHAN STRUCK THE PERFECT WARRIOR POSE” person narrative.
A few shame on me caveats to keep in mind reading the book:
1) I legit thought this was going to be all facts and then awesome spilt tea on the monarchy, and a factual Meghan-and-Harry POV look at all that went down. It’s not facts. It’s legit “I’m reading chapter books now!” fan fiction. I am so embarrassed for the author. I mean Meghan Markle. I mean Jessica Racism Mulroney. I mean I don’t even know anymore.
2) I ALSO legit bought this because I really wanted to stop raising my eyebrows at Meghan and Harry and wondering if they really were, in fact, horrible. Like Meghan is so pretty and smiley and has cool clothes and loves being at charities. I was convinced she had to have gotten a bum deal here! Nope, this weird-ass book which is supposed to make people sympathize with Meghan and “poor Harry” makes you HATE THEM. Stop whining and stop talking about how down-to-earth you are and your healthy foods routine and how you’re so laid back and love the wilderness when the only wilderness trips you take are £1,900 a night. You also apparently have zero friends unless they are extremely well known and I have proof if you need it that you can be friends with cool and amazing folks who aren’t in People Magazine. It KILLED me that they left close, dear friends out of their private wedding ceremony yet of course George Clooney and Amal and Oprah and JAMES CORDEN (give me a break) made the cut.
3) I for real hated William and Kate before I read this book and thought they were so mean to Harry and Meghan and thought they sucked and after reading this all I can think is “man, you held it together way better than I would have dealing with this fools.”
4) I STILL think the way the media treated Meghan was gross, cruel, racists and awful. You can be a total awfulburger and you still not deserve to be treated poorly or so horribly. I fully agree that the coverage was wrong, mean-spirited, and often horribly and grossly racist. Not ok and I don’t support it at all even if Meghan isn’t my cup of tea. I’m so sorry Meghan AND Harry had to ensure all that.
Other side notes include:
- All the Meghan-is-amazing lines (which is basically the entire first half of the book) are GOLD and worth reading just for the laugh. They cover topics such as:
- Growing up everyone was jealous of Meghan because she was “too perfect”
- Meghan has better natural breakfast habits than you
- Meghan performs cinematic perfect yoga in the deltas of Botswana
- Meghan is so chill and earthy that she has no problem tinkling in the woods during a rugged and fully guided African Safari
- Oprah LOVES Meghan. So does Amal. And Beyoncé. And Michelle. And everybody else important and classy in the world.
- Megan loves name dropping her expensive champagne
- Meghan buys hand warmers off of Amazon (just a regular all-American gal Just Like Us over here, guys!) for the poor palace guards whom everyone else is mean to and spits on and throws their coffee at.
- Meghan LOVES animals except for the one rescue dog she left at home when she flew to London to be with her prince.
Ok gross I’m done now, but honestly I can’t believe I’m saying this I gave it 2 stars because I think you should read it because it’s just THAT awesomely bad. And I’m not ignoring Harry in this piece and just targeting Meghan because I hate her, it’s just that the entire BOOK is basically about Meghan so it’s hard not to focus on her ridiculousness.
A few shame on me caveats to keep in mind reading the book:
1) I legit thought this was going to be all facts and then awesome spilt tea on the monarchy, and a factual Meghan-and-Harry POV look at all that went down. It’s not facts. It’s legit “I’m reading chapter books now!” fan fiction. I am so embarrassed for the author. I mean Meghan Markle. I mean Jessica Racism Mulroney. I mean I don’t even know anymore.
2) I ALSO legit bought this because I really wanted to stop raising my eyebrows at Meghan and Harry and wondering if they really were, in fact, horrible. Like Meghan is so pretty and smiley and has cool clothes and loves being at charities. I was convinced she had to have gotten a bum deal here! Nope, this weird-ass book which is supposed to make people sympathize with Meghan and “poor Harry” makes you HATE THEM. Stop whining and stop talking about how down-to-earth you are and your healthy foods routine and how you’re so laid back and love the wilderness when the only wilderness trips you take are £1,900 a night. You also apparently have zero friends unless they are extremely well known and I have proof if you need it that you can be friends with cool and amazing folks who aren’t in People Magazine. It KILLED me that they left close, dear friends out of their private wedding ceremony yet of course George Clooney and Amal and Oprah and JAMES CORDEN (give me a break) made the cut.
3) I for real hated William and Kate before I read this book and thought they were so mean to Harry and Meghan and thought they sucked and after reading this all I can think is “man, you held it together way better than I would have dealing with this fools.”
4) I STILL think the way the media treated Meghan was gross, cruel, racists and awful. You can be a total awfulburger and you still not deserve to be treated poorly or so horribly. I fully agree that the coverage was wrong, mean-spirited, and often horribly and grossly racist. Not ok and I don’t support it at all even if Meghan isn’t my cup of tea. I’m so sorry Meghan AND Harry had to ensure all that.
Other side notes include:
- All the Meghan-is-amazing lines (which is basically the entire first half of the book) are GOLD and worth reading just for the laugh. They cover topics such as:
- Growing up everyone was jealous of Meghan because she was “too perfect”
- Meghan has better natural breakfast habits than you
- Meghan performs cinematic perfect yoga in the deltas of Botswana
- Meghan is so chill and earthy that she has no problem tinkling in the woods during a rugged and fully guided African Safari
- Oprah LOVES Meghan. So does Amal. And Beyoncé. And Michelle. And everybody else important and classy in the world.
- Megan loves name dropping her expensive champagne
- Meghan buys hand warmers off of Amazon (just a regular all-American gal Just Like Us over here, guys!) for the poor palace guards whom everyone else is mean to and spits on and throws their coffee at.
- Meghan LOVES animals except for the one rescue dog she left at home when she flew to London to be with her prince.
Ok gross I’m done now, but honestly I can’t believe I’m saying this I gave it 2 stars because I think you should read it because it’s just THAT awesomely bad. And I’m not ignoring Harry in this piece and just targeting Meghan because I hate her, it’s just that the entire BOOK is basically about Meghan so it’s hard not to focus on her ridiculousness.