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Unmissable. Heartbreaking. Insightful. BUY THIS BOOK!

Reviewed in Australia on 4 April 2020

I’m just over half way through this book but I couldn’t wait a moment longer to leave a 5 star review.

This is a book for the ages. A masterpiece of contextual thinking. One that makes you feel everything, think differently about everything and bask in the genius and sensitivity of the literary delivery.

I learned about Glennon on Brené Browns podcast, which was beyond interesting, but contained only really a glimpse of her deep insight and inspiring humility.

This book is a collection of stories, metaphors and musings that could not be more relevant to the current socio-cultural climate.

I am learning, growing and feeling deep grace with every page I read.

If you are sitting there trying to decide whether to purchase this book - you must! It is an investment in yourself, your family and your role in the future of humanity.

Thank you Glennon for such a groundbreaking piece of work. 🙏🏻

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Prosaic !

Reviewed in Australia on 16 October 2020

I only read the book for bookclub and I found it's hard to believe that it has such good online reviews. I appreciate the honesty of the author sharing her lifestories and the interesting angle for the beginning of the book, but the book itself seems lack of content. The structure of the book reminds me of reading these inspirational book. It keeps repeating the same thing in different formats throughout chapters. The language was dull and prosaic.

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Untamed - ignore the hype

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 August 2020

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I bought this book after hearing reviews about how it changed people's lives and the numerous celebrity endorsers. I wish I hadn't. The money would have been better spent having a drink with friends.
I couldn't get past the feeling that the book is a self serving justification for her behaviour. Yes I broke my children's hearts and made them miserable for years but I made them 'brave' in so doing, so that's ok. Also the author believes her audience can't grasp simple concepts She gave us a 3 page explanation about why her daughter was 'brave' not to get her ears' pierced. We get it, its not hard and hardly a revelation that saying no can be difficult.

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Jane

Wanted to like. But done pleasing, so I didn't.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 June 2020

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I wanted so badly to like this. But I just didn't. Maybe I'm untamed now so I can write this. The sentiment of the book is great, the writing is - in my view- just awful.

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Tracy

Don't waste your money.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 May 2021

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Towards the end of this tedious and annoying book Glennon offer some advice to her fellow anxiety / depression sufferers.

Point one is "Take your meds"
Point two is "Keep taking your meds"
Then somewhere in point five she says "This is why so many of us are resistant to taking our medication. Because deep underneath, we believe that we are actually the sane ones. We mentally ill are the only “sick” people who believe our magic is inside our disease. I did. I still do."

This idealistic rubbish is just one example of the inconsistencies that litter the book.

In an early chapter she berates her son Chase for not doing his chores and she says: "Chase. I’ve been sending you the wrong message. I have accidentally taught you that achieving out there is more important than serving your family in here. I’ve taught you that home is where you spend your leftover energy, out there is where you give your best. I need to course-correct by giving you this bottom line: I don’t give a rat’s ass how much respect you earn for yourself out in the world if you are not showing respect to the people inside your home. If you don’t get that right, nothing you do out there will matter much."

In the very next chapter talking to her daughter Tish she says: " Listen. Every time you’re given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else. Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself. Tish: Even you? me: Especially me."

I guess she is only teaching girls to be untamed today.

The book has a wonderful premise but nothing in the pages to back it up... It is a collection of badly written essays held like Glennon had a good idea but ran out of steam early on and scoured her hard drive for old material to pad it out. She did her best to eliminate the contradictions and added a sprinkle of 'empowerment speak'. But all the editing in the world couldn't save it.

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Mirjam

Some stories were inspirational, plenty felt like fillers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 November 2021

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I bought the book after having heard Glennon in several podcasts, and finding her message very inspirational.
For me, the book was mixed. There are certain stories that really tugged at the heartstrings and showed the point of becoming untamed, claiming one's own future, daring to be wild and unapologetic.
However, some other stories felt like fillers and quite weak in comparison, and watering out the message and the strength of the book. Also, the stories were in an unexplained order (not chronological, not really by topic) so it didn't really feel like I'm going on a journey with the author, but rather hearing disjointed snippets and suddenly the book is done.
It was a good pastime, but I won't be reading it again.

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LJBentley

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 October 2020

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Okay. Full disclosure. I didn’t know that Adele had “bigged” up this book. I bought it a long while ago as an impulse buy when I was feeling a bit needs and book buying seems to curb that feeling. I started reading it not really knowing what to expect. I thought it was fiction. I bought it because I thought the cover was pretty. Kudos to the person that designed it.

I did not know that Untamed was a memoir. I did not know that it was a book about having a positive mental attitude. I think I came to Untamed a little bit unprepared.

Untamed is a good read. Glennon Doyle is a great writer and manages to get her point across. I did feel much more positive after reading it. I don’t really think there is much more I can say about it than that. I am glad it has found an appreciative audience and I did like it but it wasn’t a book that changed my life the way it did Adele’s.

What I will say is that certain chapters – those on race and sexuality really did leave a lasting impact. For those chapters alone Untamed is worth reading. The rest of the book is just a bonus.

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