Hunting for Sparrows eBook Beatrice Gerard
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In this fast-paced thriller the female protagonist's self-discovery is as important as discovering who did it, or the nature of the crime. The novel poses controversial questions about gender roles and discrimination, female sexuality, the role of women in corporate America, and intra-family power relationships.
In the middle of the night, Thelma Hardy gets a ten second call from her father her mother’s dead. She must fly to Palm Beach. The company jet is waiting.
Thelma has little time for sorrow. The stock of Wise Woman Inc. is plummeting, and the eyes of the financial world are watching and waiting. Her father has appointed a male CEO, Steve, breaking with the firm’s tradition of female leadership and enraging the members of the board.
To make matters worse, Thelma’s best friend Lauren manages to miss the funeral, and her longtime friend Cindy makes an untimely confession.
Lauren, an MIT computer wizard, has in fact been there all along. Hours after her mother's death, the company's firewall is mysteriously hacked. The source is untraceable and the timing dangerous. The firm’s main rival is suspect, and Lauren has come to help identify the attacker.
As Thelma becomes more involved in the business, she finds hints that her father and Steve may be part of a scheme to rob her of her inheritance, and that her mother may not have died of natural causes.
With her wits -which many think she is losing- as her only guide, Thelma ventures into a maze of dark family lies and financial intrigue. As she searches for a way out, she will revisit her mother’s struggle for empowerment, transform her idle socialite toys into weapons, and take ownership of her life.
Hunting for Sparrows eBook Beatrice Gerard
Hunting For Sparrows takes the reader inside the mind of a woman hell-bent on revenging the death of her multi-millionaire mother. Thelma's mother was the founder and face of a cosmetics company that grew to dominate the market and to make her and her family fabulously wealthy. After attending the socialites-only funeral, either a hallucination or a true "ghost in the machine" moment gives Thelma insights into the circumstances of her mother's death. Thelma, the "trustafarian" daughter of the deceased CEO, engages in a carefully crafted campaign to revenge her mother. Meanwhile, someone else engages in an even more carefully crafted campaign to take control of the rich corporation. Rising tensions between the corporate raiders, greedy family members, and so-called friends exhume long buried memories and lead to deadly conflicts. Through the vehicle of the takeover we are toured through the thoughts, inspirations, delusions, machinations, and perversions of the uber-rich and yet still greedy. At times the writing reminded me of Nelson DeMille (especially the Gold Coast) and at times of Jackie Collins (especially Goddess of Vengeance). I read this book in three sittings, the first sitting where I got hooked on the book, the second sitting where I waded through the complicated family and corporate structure, and then the final sitting where I was completely engrossed in watching Thelma and everyone around her devolve into the inner ring of hell reserved for those bent on revenge. In a book filled with twists and turns, the final twist that reveals the mysterious puppet master who may have had their hands on all the puppets' strings was masterful. Five Stars.Product details
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Hunting for Sparrows eBook Beatrice Gerard Reviews
Once you realize the name of its main protagonist, "Thelma", is the anagram of "Hamlet", the first puzzle piece is in place for this intricately involved psychological thriller set in the über-rich, elite society of the modern corporate world. Following the plot lines of Shakespeare's tragedy, the author renames and switches genders of four characters and sets their story in present-day West Palm Beach.
Gerard brings a fresh, diabolical approach to this tale of greed and lust that comprises "the very basic life staples. Violence, corruption...deaths, betrayals, [and] lies," as Lauren--Horatio's' female counterpart--recaps just before this novel's surprise ending, which gives a whole new, sharp edge to William Shakespeare's original creation. This is "Hamlet" retold with a twist. While Gerard is a decent writer--I reluctantly conclude--some of her phraseology is a bit overplayed, especially when juxtaposing arcane Shakespearean euphemisms into 21st Century jargon. The dialogue flows as if reading a script, but some of it seems forced, until the exciting denouement which sweeps us away to the final, tragic almost all exeunt ending.
While I found "Oh, poor Georgina!" (Alas, poor Yorick!"), when Thelma finds a childhood maid's skull, and "Good night, sweet princess" scenes, as well as the two secondary lawyer-henchmen characters, Rosen (Rosencrantz) and Katz Guildenstern), overly trite and stilted, I found this self-published novel to be an overall satisfying read; almost as satisfying as a well-staged production of the original play. Missing, though, was Thelma's mother's ghost--or was she? The ending--atypical William Shakespeare, typical Beatrice Gerard--is an "I gotcha!" moment; one not to be missed by both general fiction as well as scholarly Shakespearean readers.
Something once rotten in the bygone days of the State of Denmark has survived to span the ages, corrupting and sullying the corporate-America greedy elite of West Palm Beach--easily anyplace--where one continually asks, "Who really is the hawk? Who really are the sparrows?"
This review was written by June J. McInerney, a literary review blogger, and the author of "The Basset Chronicles" and "Adventures of Oreigh Ogglefont".
What do you do when you know there has been an injustice, a terrible injustice? A frightening and unspeakable crime has been committed to someone you not only love but perhaps love more than anyone in the world, and nobody knows that it happened but you.
And even worse, you can't prove that it happened, because your way of knowing it is suspect. You just know. And you happen to be right. You even get the person who committed the crime to admit it. Unfortunately no one hears him but you.
Now that he has admitted it, you know for sure he did the crime. The truth of it is even more terrifying than before. At least before you knew for certain, you could just think that you are crazy. Now you know that he is guilty, but you still can't prove it. And everyone thinks that you're crazy.
That's the predicament that our main character, Thelma, finds her self in, in this intriguing corporate thriller. This is a page-turner, a story in the spirit of a timeless classic, a story of the all too human, universal emotions of greed and ambition, truth and denial, shame and jealousy and the need for justice.
This book is too complex and dijointed for me. I only read so far and then ditched it. It was free to me bt I wouldn't spend any money on it. Maybe it would get better but who knows.
Am I the only one who has read Hamlet? This book is such an obvious rip-off of Shakespeare's classic that it should be illegal. Each and every plot point is copied perfectly. Just switching names to not-so-clever parodies (Hamlet becomes Thelma? Come on.) and a little gender switching and suddenly it's a new story? I just don't buy it. And glad I didn't, since I got it free. If Shakespeare were still copyrighted, this would be considered plagiarism.
I absolutely loved this book. It is well written and the story is so real. It is easy to imagine something like this happening in today's world. The main character, Thelma, is well rounded and alive. It was really hard for me to put this book down at night. It is a real page turner. There were several times that I wanted to stop reading but I just couldn't.
Hunting For Sparrows takes the reader inside the mind of a woman hell-bent on revenging the death of her multi-millionaire mother. Thelma's mother was the founder and face of a cosmetics company that grew to dominate the market and to make her and her family fabulously wealthy. After attending the socialites-only funeral, either a hallucination or a true "ghost in the machine" moment gives Thelma insights into the circumstances of her mother's death. Thelma, the "trustafarian" daughter of the deceased CEO, engages in a carefully crafted campaign to revenge her mother. Meanwhile, someone else engages in an even more carefully crafted campaign to take control of the rich corporation. Rising tensions between the corporate raiders, greedy family members, and so-called friends exhume long buried memories and lead to deadly conflicts. Through the vehicle of the takeover we are toured through the thoughts, inspirations, delusions, machinations, and perversions of the uber-rich and yet still greedy. At times the writing reminded me of Nelson DeMille (especially the Gold Coast) and at times of Jackie Collins (especially Goddess of Vengeance). I read this book in three sittings, the first sitting where I got hooked on the book, the second sitting where I waded through the complicated family and corporate structure, and then the final sitting where I was completely engrossed in watching Thelma and everyone around her devolve into the inner ring of hell reserved for those bent on revenge. In a book filled with twists and turns, the final twist that reveals the mysterious puppet master who may have had their hands on all the puppets' strings was masterful. Five Stars.
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