It’s officially spring time and, as always, love is in the air. For some, this is an exciting time, but for many women this is a time of year when would-be romance is thrust in their faces, and they feel like they should be right smack in the middle of a storybook romance. Instead, they’re in unhealthy relationships or miserably single and not enjoying the “me” time.

Never fear, a self-help book is here. But it’s not what you’re expecting. “Stupid About Men: 10 Rules for Getting Romance Right” by Deborah Dunn turned out to be more than your average self-help book. Dunn took relating with her audience to an extreme and used a new approach. Dunn, a licensed marriage and family therapist, wrote her entire book in terms of classic storybook princesses.

We have all of the classic elements of a self-help book here. Anecdotal stories we can all relate to, firm advice and even facts about yourself that are a little hard to hear. The difference with “Stupid About Men” is the author’s interesting approach to every personality type.

The book is divided into five parts. The first three are the classic categories all women fall into to some degree – “The Lust for Fairy Dust,” “Into the Woods” and “Down in the Soggy, Boggy Swamp.” Section four, “Into the Light,” is about the girl who got it right according to Dunn – the original version of Ariel from “The Little Mermaid” by Hans Christian Anderson. Section six is a “bonus” section called “And She Lived Happily Ever After,” recapping what we’ve learned and establishing a few basic principles to take away.

Overall, I liked the style of writing in this book. I thought it was interesting to read how Dunn interpreted the classic heroines and related them to modern women. I did have one major problem, however.

Dunn writes as if her only audience is Christian women, which I feel really narrows the audience for this book. The advice was good and could apply to a lot of people, but Dunn really eliminates readers when she makes comments about religion and spiritual experiences. For the most part, it was easy to ignore because it was about one sentence’s worth of preaching per chapter. While that alone was sort of weird for me because it seemed to come out of nowhere, when I got to the chapter about “The Little Mermaid,” I was actually shocked to read that she suggests all women need to find Christianity in a sense to be happy and find love.

This all would be fine and dandy if Dunn had titled her book “Stupid About Men: 10 Rules For Getting Romance Right As A Christian Woman,” but she left her title without such a disclaimer, which makes me think she should have left the book unbiased.

There were places where Dunn suggested spiritual solvency could come from some other religion, but her prejudice was apparent. I do agree that people need to love themselves and find themselves before they can love another, but I don’t think this requires Christianity by any means.

I’d recommend this book to my Christian friends, but if I loaned it to anyone else I’d probably go through it with a sharpie. Once edited, it would prove much more useful to them.