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A review by mybookish_era
Spare by Prince Harry
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
My thoughts on Spare....
I actually really liked Spare a lot. I listened to the audiobook and Harry as a narrator is 2 thumbs way up. Just where the book starts is instant pain and all the pain that followed you could hear it in his voice. Harry was also very transparent about the fact that mistakes were made and accepted responsibility for those mistakes. While there was a lot of pain in this book there was a fair bit of happiness as well. His friends, family, Meg, the kiddos he spoke of all of them lovingly. He also talked of his military career with great pride...not an arrogant pride but a "I did something for the greater good" pride. My only real sadness that I have is that he waited so long to get the actual help that he needed for his PTSD.
It is clear throughout the book that Harry has a clear and genuinely real dislike for the tabloids and falsified reporting. There are also to many coincidences in the book and you know what they say about coincidences...that there really aren't any coincidences. It became clear early on in the book that Harry was set up to fail from the start. He was a scapegoat to be used whenever someone's public standing was lagging. By the end of the book my takeaway was that while Harry clearly loves his family (it's pretty obvious in the way he talks about them) he also realizes that they are toxic to his overall well-being.
The absolute very end of the book is one of my favorite endings ever. While I wanted to give this 5 stars there were somethings that I didn't really see how they were relevant but other than those few instances I enjoyed the book very much.
4.9 stars
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I actually really liked Spare a lot. I listened to the audiobook and Harry as a narrator is 2 thumbs way up. Just where the book starts is instant pain and all the pain that followed you could hear it in his voice. Harry was also very transparent about the fact that mistakes were made and accepted responsibility for those mistakes. While there was a lot of pain in this book there was a fair bit of happiness as well. His friends, family, Meg, the kiddos he spoke of all of them lovingly. He also talked of his military career with great pride...not an arrogant pride but a "I did something for the greater good" pride. My only real sadness that I have is that he waited so long to get the actual help that he needed for his PTSD.
It is clear throughout the book that Harry has a clear and genuinely real dislike for the tabloids and falsified reporting. There are also to many coincidences in the book and you know what they say about coincidences...that there really aren't any coincidences. It became clear early on in the book that Harry was set up to fail from the start. He was a scapegoat to be used whenever someone's public standing was lagging. By the end of the book my takeaway was that while Harry clearly loves his family (it's pretty obvious in the way he talks about them) he also realizes that they are toxic to his overall well-being.
The absolute very end of the book is one of my favorite endings ever. While I wanted to give this 5 stars there were somethings that I didn't really see how they were relevant but other than those few instances I enjoyed the book very much.
4.9 stars
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