Review: A breath of fresh air in the market!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 27, 2014
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! :)