A review by pmhandley
Untamed by Glennon Doyle

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

3.5

This book is best when it's a memoir. The author is a fascinating and funny person and she has a lot of interesting stories and wisdom. When it steers into broad self-help it gets a bit iffier. Glennon Doyle has great advice if you are very similar to Glennon Doyle, which is a very specific demographic. I enjoyed her insights, but large portions of this book it was apparent it was Not For Me. I actually found the later parts of the book much more enjoyable than the earlier ones, I think because it just took me awhile to adjust to the author's voice. Some of the stories the author uses about her kids made me uneasy, just because they often required a certain suspension of disbelief and because Doyle has a tendency to project her own motivations onto even innocuous things her children say. (Also, I rolled my eyes a little at the story of her daughter trying out for a travel soccer team, because while heartwarming that she made the team with little experience, how many kids get to intensely train with ABBY FREAKIN WAMBACH to prepare?) The overuse of metaphors in this book was a bit much. Some just didn't really work and were a real stretch. But it's a pretty quick, amusing read.
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