Spare

This was a book filled with a LOT of issues - as in, Price Harry needs serious therapy. The first 60% of the book was plain depressing. I don't think many people would disagree that living as a royal comes with a lot of crap - Paps, lack of privacy, lack of freedom, lack of support when you're going through tough things - like your mother dying, for example. At the same time though, Harry makes repeated stupid decisions well into his late 20's - from doing coke, mushrooms, playing strip poker in Vegas and surrounding himself with people who REALLLLYY love alcohol - Harry doesn't seem to learn from his mistakes and has very little regard for how those decisions impact his family. He seems to spend most of his free time partying and complaining.

I cannot image having so little privacy or choice in life, but it seems Harry has very little interest in learning about the world, culture or how “the average person” lives (reading books would fix 90% of this). He has very little interest in education, even as an adult and it's painfully obvious he grew up in a bubble - he seems like an incredibly boring person despite his crazy lifestyle.

The reason I'm rating this so low is because this really seems like reading someone's private diary. Spare paints Harry as the underdog that becomes the hero and it's cringy, embarrassing and boring to read. I don't give a crap about his frost bitten bits, his phone being ruined by water and writing dramatic love letters to Megan or his complete lack of awareness of how his choices impact his loved ones - but those are the details he thought important to share with the world.

I know next to nothing about the royal family (honestly I couldn't tell you the names of any of them before reading this book). I never watched interviews with anyone, I haven't seen the crown and I don't watch any news stories about the royal family. This is all coming from someone who couldn't care less about who they are or what they do. So my review comes from a very neutral place and you know when I say that Harry seems like a spoiled brat who didn't get enough love as a child and also has some traumatic events happen to him, you know I am getting that directly from his perspective on life. Why are the royals even a thing? It seems absolutely bizarre to me.