Book Review: Spare by Prince Harry

Spare by Prince Harry
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I don't know how to best write a review of this book. I started this almost right after it came out and it took me months to finish reading it. It was a struggle to get through the first half of the book - not because it was emotional or sad - it was poorly written. The latter stuff (late teens until he met MM) was good and interesting. But then the MM stuff - I love her, I loved the Netflix series, but the chapters with her seemed rushed, cramped and just trying to prove a point. Not sure what that point was but yeah.

The first half of his life the stories and chapters were short some merely lasting part of a page and often there was no explanation or rhyme or reason as to why different portions were included in the book. I seemed like someone had written down a bunch of memories on varying size post it notes and threw it together as the first half of the novel. I think that Prince Harry has such an interesting story and life that he could have shared - this just was not the best way of doing it. A lot of the controversy surrounding the book is misleading - I mean the part where he talks about loosing his virginity really isn't that exciting or scandalous. Further, where he talks about his number (something a military member should not do) does make sense and lend a light to his time serving in the military (although the specific number could have been left out).

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