A review by moonyreadsbystarlight
Untamed by Glennon Doyle

emotional hopeful

3.5

Glennon tells her story about falling in love with a woman near the end of her marriage. With that, she is navigating unlearning so much that the world has taught her how to be -- untangling herself from that expectation. It's an incredibly important experience and perspective to put out there, especially for other people who come out later in life. I do think that parts of it could have been a bit smoother and gone a little deeper. I like that she talked about activism outside of queer spaces (being an ally to the Black community and talking about when she messed up within that), but a piece of some of that felt a little off -- maybe inflated, especially when she spoke about specific things that specific people close to her did. She was bragging on them and less on herself, but it still felt awkward to me (I'm interested to see what Black and other readers of color thought about that piece of it). I wish she would have brought in some bits of theory or writing from other people who talked about a lot of the ideas that she was getting at when it came to allyship or helping other communities because only having her perspective felt very surface-level (so much that it was distracting, at least for me). I did really like that she reflected on certain issues that she really had to fight with, including control and boundaries -- and that it was something that she even had to work through in her current relationship, which is very important to recognize.