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What makes the world go 'round . . .?
After an impoverished and indigent childhood, Callie Dahl is interested in one thing: money enough to buy her own home. Love and marriage are impractical pursuits, and hold zero attraction for her—though she alleviates her loneliness through the guilty pleasure of an at-far fantasy of her temporary boss, Lucius Ransome.
So when Lucius gives her the task of disproving a long-standing Ransome Family legend, it’s a tossup for her whether the main attraction is the financial bonus he’s promised or the chance to spend time in his company!
Her investigation unravels more than family secrets. As she plunges into a steamy affair with Lucius, everything she holds true comes apart as he introduces her to a world where love actually might mean more than money.
- Sales Rank: #524503 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-11-29
- Released on: 2013-11-29
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
Roberta Pearce’s relationship with romance novels began when she fell into a box of her aunt’s dog-eared treasures that miraculously opened at the most interesting bits. All through post-secondary adventures – Russian Lit: good; torrid love scenes: better – this amour de HEA took her, though it goes without saying that she failed French. One day, she decided to make a useful contribution to society and write HEAs rather than just reading them, and still seeks one for herself in real life.
Winner of 2013 & 2014 NaNoWriMo, Pearce is still waiting for her cheques. Her influences include Fyodor Dostoyevsky [his dreamy side], Douglas Adams, Rupert Brooke, Mary Burchell, and Omar Khayyam. While she currently has no pets, she once had a pair of Siamese fighting fish named Pat and Mike, whose ghosts appear occasionally in her novels. Her imaginary hobbies include climbing Kilimanjaro and enjoying lofty literature. Her real hobbies include drinking copious bottles of wine with good friends while discussing anything that pops to mind.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
An amazing piece of work
By jan raymond
A bird without wings is a well crafted romance. But it isn’t your run of the mill boy meets girl story. Roberta Pearce has added suspense to the romance in the form of an unsolved mystery and missing treasure. The shifts between the romance and suspense are skillfully woven and there isn’t a moment of boredom. I am particularly impressed by Callie Dahl’s ceaseless fount of knowledge. I’m not sure if it is the author’s own passion or a wealth of research, but the little tidbits kept me riveted. There were just so many interesting facts thrown in that are utterly fascinating.
The characters were strong without being jarring, and the little quirks they have endear them to you and make them believable. I am glad I read this book. I wish more romance novelists would try to have a good storyline in their novels. This is well worth a read and an amazing piece of work.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
A breath of fresh air in the market!
By Ebichu
Roberta Pearce' A Bird Without Wing starts with a common, cute situation: a mousey girl secretly head over heels for her boss, Luscious--erm, Lucius. Soon enough, though, we discover that things are not quite what they seem: there are many layers to Callie's personality, and her family and upbringing played no small part in shaping who she is when the story begins. I won't spoil it for you, but she's definitively not your average 'employee in love with the rich guy'.
Lucius himself makes for an interesting hero as well, likeable, but a just a bit arrogant at time and with issues of his own, namely his family, which is the very definition of degenerating old money. Unfocused, cut from reality, and hoping that some mysterious family treasure will solve all their problems if they can put their hands on it.
Brought together by a common friend and colleague, Callie and Luscious (yeah, I'm gonna keep call him that) work on a 'secret' assignment he came up with to finally set his family straight: Callie must demonstrate with absolute certainty that the Ransome's family legendary treasure doesn't exist.
Again, I won't spoil, but overall, this makes for a fun, different read. At times deeply intimate and emotional, at times a bit hot, and that manages to explore very convincingly the dynamics of a budding relationship (Something that, oddly enough, 90% of all romance books fail to accomplish, choosing to go for the easy way, which is not the case, here).
The book is also served by an excellent, consistent writing, that was really the cherry on top of the cake for me! :)
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Don't read this book, no violence or gore!
By M. V. Halm
Since my noir novelist notoriety is already down the drain after reviewing For Those Who Wait, I might as well review Roberta Pearce’s A Bird Without Wings.
The author was concerned that I would be bored reading her books due to the lack of blood and violence. And disturbed people. However, knowing beforehand that Callie was unlikely to stab Lucius in the eyes or Lucius ending up a spree-killer actually made me focus on their interaction. And I found both Callie and Lucius a lot more engaging than the protagonists of FTWW, mainly because they seemed more ‘fleshed out’.
Callie is a frumpy genius with a crush on her boss, Lucius Ransome, who is called Luscious by the female staff for obvious reasons. Her best friend Rachel learns that Lucius is looking for a researcher into some family history to distract his family while he gets the family’s affairs in order.
Grumpy Lucius hires frumpy Callie, who surprises him by disagreeing with him about a painting, but he doesn’t start noticing her bodacious body after Rachel gives Callie a makeover.
Lucius is always called in to fix the problems of the Ransome family, as he seems to be the only one with some sense. The rest of the family seems obsessed by some ancestral treasure and Callie has to disprove the existence of the Hidden Ransome Treasure while Lucius can fix the problems without his family interfering.
I thought this was a pretty good plot for a romance novel. I admit I haven’t read many, but in comparison with FTWW, where the protagonists aim at preventing a wedding from happening, ABWW is definitely more engaging plot-wise.
Another interesting juxtaposition is that Callie is from a poor background, suffering from self-esteem issues, and focuses on money as important, as people who don't have any are wont to do. Lucius, however, is born into a rich family and doesn't think money is that important. Through studying the Ransome family for her research Callie learns the real value of money.
One thing that irked me about Pearce’s prose is her tendency to use alternative speech tags or combining action with speech tags, instead of using beats or standardised speech tags like ‘said/whispered/yelled’. The reason it irked me is that speech tags like 'she averred' have tendency to break the spell as I'm reading. The first time I came across 'averred' I actually had to look it up, now it's 'God, she used that verb again'.
Apart from Pearce's use of speech tags, the prose flowed well and I stayed up too late reading the last few chapters. Pearce's has a few instances where her protagonist, who apparently has total mnemonic recall, explains historical facts in a way that skirts exposition but thankfully stays on the interesting side and doesn't become the dreaded info dump.
The ending was predictable, but well played out.
As to the ending--I disliked the epilogue intensely to the point where I felt it was a blemish on an otherwise well-written and clever novel. Let me explain:
The novel ends with all the issued tied in a neat bow and the protagonist are all set to live happily ever after. Turn the page and there's an epilogue in the form of a letter Callie sends to a Constance Simms, who turned out to be the second-grade teacher from the beginning of the book. Since I didn't read the book in one sitting, I had no idea who Simms was again (thank God the ebook has a search function) and I thought the information in the epilogue was wholly unnecessary for the story, except to re-iterate and confirm what the ending already concluded.
My advice to Pearce: Trust you readers and lose the epilogue.
I heard that Pearce's next novel will include a sociopath in love, so I'm eagerly awaiting an ARC...
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