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Untamed by Glennon Doyle

43 reviews

mariabacterium's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

This book couldn’t have arrived at a better time in my life. While the writing can come across as preachy, as soon as I set aside my hesitations with the language being used, it became much more relatable and eye-opening for me. There were chapters I had to reread, simply because what she was saying resonated and I wanted to soak it all in. She writes so candidly, humorously, and beautifully about her experiences and brings up some difficult but important questions centered around spirituality, sexuality, and race. I appreciate her approach. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Eating disorder, and Infidelity

Moderate: Racism, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Sexism

Minor: Death and Grief

mmccue1997's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Alcohol, and Infidelity

mamaewalk's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A must read for LGBTQIA Christians, moms, or any person trying to look more inward. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Addiction

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Body shaming, Deportation, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, and Eating disorder

maeframe's review

inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Sexism, Racism, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Infidelity

savvyrosereads's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.0

Rating: 3/5 stars

Part memoir and part self-help, Untamed is Glennon’s story of self-discovery and empowerment.

I listened to this one entirely because I needed a “U” book for a reading challenge and I remembered hearing a lot about it a few years back. It was fine, nothing particularly groundbreaking in my opinion, and not really my usual type of read, but with some nice moments and takeaways.

This one definitely subscribes to the school of “girl boss” feminism, which is *fine* (lots of the time I subscribe to that school myself!) but can get a little grating in parts. I definitely felt like some moments were a bit preachy or over the top, but overall I get what the author was trying to do here, and it more or less worked well.

I wouldn’t go out of my way to recommend this, but give it a shot if it sounds good to you!

CW: drug use/addiction; homophobia; infidelity, sexism

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Drug use, Sexism, and Infidelity

trainreader's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying, Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, Cursing, Eating disorder, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Abortion, Body shaming, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pregnancy

mahnahmahnah's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Infidelity

Minor: Eating disorder and Homophobia

thewellbitch's review

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.5

Loved it! Would love to reread and highlight a lot of parts.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Racism, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

r_clark's review

adventurous funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Homophobia

parasolcrafter's review

emotional informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

1.75

this book was...fine??? i mean it definitely isnt revolutionary the way some ppl say it is :/ id say its a very shallow look at feminism; very surface level. there are some GREAT chapters in this book and some important things were said, but overall it feels like the author discovered feminism and is excited to tell ppl about it, as if we dont know what it already is? i dont know, it kind of came off sometimes like the author is treating the readers as if we dont know anything about it. and im sure this book is good for some people out there, but honestly a lot of the '''lessons''' we're taught about in this book is stuff i already dismantled inside myself when i was an older child/young teen. i didnt learn much from this book, really; its not bad, i guess, just definitely not for me. still gets a low rating though because i felt like the author was talking to me like i was a child.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Misogyny, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, and Pregnancy