As the year comes to a close, I'm looking for things to distract me and put me in a good mood. This book that was lying around in my e-reader served its purpose very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For a few years, Sophie was perfectly happy. She was in a relationship with a sexy hipster lawyer (because sexy men are always rich, right?) and gave birth to an adorable baby girl. She was swimming in peace and joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until the worst happens. Her little girl gets seriously ill, and her husband starts cheating on her with a younger blond girl. Her daughter dies, and her husband leaves her. Her world falls apart. Then comes a strange near-death experience where her dead daughter tells her what to do, and she goes to her mother whom she hasn't spoken to in years to ask her why she abandoned her when she was young. And what she learns changes her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is nothing extraordinary about this book. Julianne MacLean is a prolific bestselling author: she knows how to craft a gripping story without wracking your brains. The story was rather predictable, the romance was dramatic as hell and all the characters were beautiful and rich. The translation was pretty poorly done and there were several typos, as if they had to rush to get this to market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I have to admit that these types of books tend to work for me. I like to turn my brain off and let myself go. Each chapter ended with a little suspense, and I got caught up in it: I read it pretty much in one sitting. There was a love triangle, and I clearly had a favorite guy. Sadness, excitement, compassion, frustration, melancholy: I went through all the right emotions. I laughed too, because I'm not going to take it at face value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are better books than that on the planet. But sometimes it's nice to lower our expectations and then be pleasantly surprised.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
En cette fin d’ann\u00e9e, je cherche des choses pour me distraire et me rendre de bonne humeur. Ce livre qui tra\u00eenait dans ma liseuse a tr\u00e8s bien rempli sa fonction. R\u00e9sum\u00e9 Pendant quelques ann\u00e9es, Sophie a connu le parfait bonheur. Elle \u00e9tait en couple avec un sexy avocat branch\u00e9 (parce que les hommes sexys sont toujours riches, n’est-ce pas) et a donn\u00e9 naissance \u00e0 une petite fille adorable. Elle nageait dans la paix et la joie. Jusqu’\u00e0 ce que le pire arrive. Sa petite fille tombe gravement malade, et son mari commence \u00e0 la tromper avec une petite blondinette plus jeune. Sa fille meurt, et son mari la laisse. Son monde s’\u00e9croule. Vient ensuite une dr\u00f4le d’exp\u00e9rience de mort imminente o\u00f9 sa fille morte lui dit quoi faire, et elle va voir sa m\u00e8re \u00e0 qui elle n’a pas parl\u00e9 depuis des ann\u00e9es pour lui demander pourquoi elle l’a abandonn\u00e9e quand elle \u00e9tait jeune. Et ce qu’elle apprend change sa vie. Impressions Il n’y a rien d’extraordinaire dans ce livre. Julianne MacLean est une auteure de bestsellers tr\u00e8s prolifique : elle sait comment ficeler une histoire accrocheuse sans se casser trop la t\u00eate. L’histoire \u00e9tait plut\u00f4t pr\u00e9visible, la romance \u00e9tait dramatique \u00e0 souhait et tous les personnages \u00e9taient beaux et riches. La traduction \u00e9tait assez mal faite et il y avait plusieurs coquilles, comme s’il fallait se d\u00e9p\u00eacher pour mettre \u00e7a sur le march\u00e9. Mais je dois avouer que ce genre de livres a tendance \u00e0 fonctionner pour moi. J’aime mettre mon cerveau \u00e0 “off” et me laisser aller. Chaque chapitre terminait par un petit suspense, et je me suis prise au jeu : je l’ai lu \u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s d’une traite. Il y avait un triangle amoureux, et j’avais clairement un gars pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9. Tristesse, excitation, compassion, frustration, m\u00e9lancolie : je suis pass\u00e9e par toutes les \u00e9motions qu’il fallait. J’ai ri aussi, parce que quand m\u00eame, je ne vais pas prendre \u00e7a au premier degr\u00e9. Il y a des meilleurs livres que \u00e7a sur la plan\u00e8te. Mais parfois, c’est agr\u00e9able de baisser nos attentes pour ensuite \u00eatre agr\u00e9ablement surpris.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"On ne veut pas l'avouer, mais parfois un petit triangle amoureux teint\u00e9 de spiritualit\u00e9, c'est ce qu'il nous faut pour commencer les vacances du bon pied.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[244,242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-litterature-sentimentale","category-se-distraire"],"yoast_head":"\n