La Mort d’une princesse ("The Death of a Princess")

I used to think that to catch a "good" guy, I needed to use tactics. I read The Rules (which I haven't reviewed yet because it deserves more than that), and recently, I read Why Men Marry Bitches. India Desjardins put her grain of salt in my reflection, very delicately, by offering me her book La Mort d’une princesse ("The Death of a Princess"). I wouldn't say it changed my life... but almost.

Sarah gets dumped when she was hoping to get married and is in her thirties. He was a guy she had adored, on whom she had put so much hope... But just when she was ready to take the plunge, he lacked enthusiasm, and ended up leaving her plainly.

Disillusionment

Struck down, Sarah plunged into celibacy and work. For 7 years, she did not have a love story. She gets used to the idea that she is made for this way of life, blossoms in her work and complains about men with her lesbian best friend. She convinces herself that the beautiful love story of romantic comedy, it will not happen to her.

I know so many girls like that. Beautiful, bright, full of potential girls who decide to forget their romantic dreams with disappointment. I used to think that the way to counteract this is to use "tips and tricks" to sort out the good from the bad. What if it's easier than that?

There is nothing behind the hill

Or what I now call "the WYSIWYG theory". What you see is what you get. The flamboyant guys, the wonder merchants who are hard to dig and with whom you have to use tactics, are the ones targeted here. Between them and us, there's a big hill. We can't see anything behind it, but we imagine that if we ever managed to climb it, to be more beautiful, more interesting, so that he could actually fall in love, forget about his exes, his fear of attachment, his distrust, and his traumas... then what a great story it would be!

The death of a princess is when you let go of those poor illusions of romantic comedies. The charming princes are often deceiving.

Real life... is even more beautiful

After 7 years, Sarah meets Pascal. The nice Pascal, who is rather cute, but above all, who is there, and who, slowly, manages to get into her life. Who manages to reconcile Sarah with love. Because it doesn't have to be complicated. It is not the big tumult of the passion, romantic comedy style, it is much softer, it brings peace and joy.

This book is a balm to the hearts of women who have been kicked for wanting too much. Too much wanting with the wrong guys. It made me smile, it made me feel better, it made things a lot easier. And it's slowly starting to pay off...

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La Mort d’une princesse ("The Death of a Princess").

India Desjardins

24,95 $