Is Untamed Worth Reading?
Ada’s Score
Doyle opens with a caged cheetah and builds outward from that image into a full-throated argument for self-trust over social conditioning. The prose is confessional and punchy — short sentences, bold declarations, personal crisis rendered as universal parable. It works best when Doyle is specific: her marriage unravelling, her faith fracturing, the precise texture of her addiction. It strains when the epiphanies arrive too cleanly. This is a book for anyone who has performed a life rather than lived one — and who is ready, finally, to find that distinction unbearable.
Spotlight“Doyle is relentless and a little overwhelming and completely sincere. This book will make you think about what you've agreed to without knowing it.”
Permission Slips and Loud Truths
Untamed is not a quiet book — it arrives like a door swinging open in a room you didn't know was suffocating you. Glennon Doyle writes the way she apparently lives: with the volume up, the contradictions visible, and a stubborn refusal to be palatable when honesty would serve better. In this brief, we look at how a memoir became a cultural phenomenon not by being perfect, but by being unapologetically, sometimes uncomfortably, real — and why readers keep pressing it into the hands of women they love.
Ada Brief
AI reading intelligence“Doyle is relentless and a little overwhelming and completely sincere. This book will make you think about what you've agreed to without knowing it.”
Permission Slips and Loud Truths
Untamed is not a quiet book — it arrives like a door swinging open in a room you didn't know was suffocating you. Glennon Doyle writes the way she apparently lives: with the volume up, the contradictions visible, and a stubborn refusal to be palatable when honesty would serve better. In this brief, we look at how a memoir became a cultural phenomenon not by being perfect, but by being unapologetically, sometimes uncomfortably, real — and why readers keep pressing it into the hands of women they love.
Book Details
- Publisher
- The Dial Press
- Published
- January 1, 2020
- Pages
- 333
- Language
- ENG
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Ada’s Score
4.4
Ada’s editorial score — not an aggregate of reader reviews.
Common Questions About Untamed
- Is Untamed worth reading?
- Doyle is relentless and a little overwhelming and completely sincere. This book will make you think about what you've agreed to without knowing it. Ada rates it 4.4 out of 5.
- How many pages is Untamed?
- Untamed is 333 pages long — around 6–7 hours at an average reading pace.
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