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Can He Be the One?
A reporter with The Joburg Tribune, Ayanda Nkosi is always hot on the heels of her next breaking story. Sipho Dlamini is the MD of Egoli Investments. Charming and successful, he would like nothing better than to have the down-to-earth Ayanda on his arm.
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Lauri Kubuitsile
59 books33 followersLauri Is a full time, award winning writer living in Botswana. She writes for children, teens and adults. She writes romance, detective, literary and humourous books.
Lauri has won or been shortlisted for numerous writing awards including: The Caine Prize, The Golden Baobab, MER Award for Best Youth Novel, The Sanlam Prize, Anglo Platinum Short Story Award and the Orange Botswerere Prize for Creative Writing.
She blogs at http://thoughtsfrombotswana.blogspot....
Her books include:
Signed, Hoplessly in Love (YA)
The Curse of the Gold Coins (children)
Mmele and the Magic Bones (children)
Lorato and her Wire Car (children)
In her Detective Kate Gomolemo series:
The Fatal Payout
Murder for Profit
Anything for Money
Claws of a Killer
Romance:
Kwaito Love
Can He Be The One?
Mr Not Quite Good Enough
Love in the Shadows
Short Stories:
In The Spririt of McPhineas Lata
Lauri has won or been shortlisted for numerous writing awards including: The Caine Prize, The Golden Baobab, MER Award for Best Youth Novel, The Sanlam Prize, Anglo Platinum Short Story Award and the Orange Botswerere Prize for Creative Writing.
She blogs at http://thoughtsfrombotswana.blogspot....
Her books include:
Signed, Hoplessly in Love (YA)
The Curse of the Gold Coins (children)
Mmele and the Magic Bones (children)
Lorato and her Wire Car (children)
In her Detective Kate Gomolemo series:
The Fatal Payout
Murder for Profit
Anything for Money
Claws of a Killer
Romance:
Kwaito Love
Can He Be The One?
Mr Not Quite Good Enough
Love in the Shadows
Short Stories:
In The Spririt of McPhineas Lata
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August 14, 2014
This was an absolutely excellent read.
It's a novella. I mention that first because I see criticism of novellas sometimes along the lines of "it was too short," and, okay...if you're expecting a 50,000 word romance novel this will feel short, because it's 30,000 words, so a fair bit shorter than the standard category. But it packs a LOT of story into that length, and I felt it was a satisfying read.
The heroine, Ayanda Nkosi, felt more real to me than many romance-novel heroines simply because the details of her life (sharing a home with her two sisters and baby niece, having to manage car payments) matched normal life. She's a reporter, but that isn't glamourized or implied to somehow magically make her rich. It's a down-to-earth novel, yet very romantic (and a little scary at points, since she is investigating crime/political-corruption).
But at the same time the setting--Johannesburg--was far enough away from me to be intriguing. I had to Google a few things (well, I didn't *have* to; the story would have made sense anyway, but I was curious).
Things I had to google:
BEE: I could tell this was some kind of government employment-scheme thingy (we have them in Canada too, and I immediately recognized this as something similar), but I had to look it up to find out it stands for "black economic empowerment."
SADF: from context I guessed "very bad police/military stuff, maybe like the KGB." Wikipedia informs me it means "South African Defence Force."
I absolutely KNEW "Generations" must be a soap opera. It is, and you can find it on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhJHL...).
The song "silang mabele" can also be found on youtube.
...that's actually more effort than I usually put into tracking down the details of a romance novel, and it absolutely isn't necessary in order to enjoy the love story, but Ayanda's world was vividly written enough that I got curious.
It's a novella. I mention that first because I see criticism of novellas sometimes along the lines of "it was too short," and, okay...if you're expecting a 50,000 word romance novel this will feel short, because it's 30,000 words, so a fair bit shorter than the standard category. But it packs a LOT of story into that length, and I felt it was a satisfying read.
The heroine, Ayanda Nkosi, felt more real to me than many romance-novel heroines simply because the details of her life (sharing a home with her two sisters and baby niece, having to manage car payments) matched normal life. She's a reporter, but that isn't glamourized or implied to somehow magically make her rich. It's a down-to-earth novel, yet very romantic (and a little scary at points, since she is investigating crime/political-corruption).
But at the same time the setting--Johannesburg--was far enough away from me to be intriguing. I had to Google a few things (well, I didn't *have* to; the story would have made sense anyway, but I was curious).
Things I had to google:
BEE: I could tell this was some kind of government employment-scheme thingy (we have them in Canada too, and I immediately recognized this as something similar), but I had to look it up to find out it stands for "black economic empowerment."
SADF: from context I guessed "very bad police/military stuff, maybe like the KGB." Wikipedia informs me it means "South African Defence Force."
I absolutely KNEW "Generations" must be a soap opera. It is, and you can find it on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhJHL...).
The song "silang mabele" can also be found on youtube.
...that's actually more effort than I usually put into tracking down the details of a romance novel, and it absolutely isn't necessary in order to enjoy the love story, but Ayanda's world was vividly written enough that I got curious.
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