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Beauty and the Broker
Melody Nyathi has big plans for her future. For now, the ambitious twenty-eight-year-old is a beauty therapist at the plush Imbali Spa in Cape Town, but Melody dreams of one day opening a beauty spa for ‘ordinary’ women. If she’d only stop trying to take care of everyone around her, perhaps she could make her plans reality . . . Then Melody meets insurance broker-cum-business owner Thabiso Gumede, and her heart melts. Their love blossoms almost overnight and Thabiso tries to encourage Melody to reach for her dreams. But does he really want her to succeed or does his jealousy of her male clients have anything to do with it? And should Melody yield her independence to Thabiso to take up an offer that few could refuse?
160 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2010
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August 16, 2014
For the first two-thirds of this novella I thought it lacked the "high stakes" I've come to expect for romances, but it was just a quiet, perfect build-up to the gradual revelation of the highest stakes of all: the heroine's need to overcome her pride and independence long enough to confront her insecurities.
Honestly I initially thought the hero was a jerk, because I was (like the heroine) very aware of his jealousy and completely unaware that (for instance) her own caring relationship with her family needed re-evaluation and re-adjustment to actually meet their needs. The turning point for me was a conversation between Melody and Thabiso about how she tries to take care of her family; Melody says this "isn't a very romantic conversation," but she's wrong, because he loves her enough to have the difficult conversations that help them both to grow.
A marvellous, sweet, romantic book with its feet firmly in the real world.
Honestly I initially thought the hero was a jerk, because I was (like the heroine) very aware of his jealousy and completely unaware that (for instance) her own caring relationship with her family needed re-evaluation and re-adjustment to actually meet their needs. The turning point for me was a conversation between Melody and Thabiso about how she tries to take care of her family; Melody says this "isn't a very romantic conversation," but she's wrong, because he loves her enough to have the difficult conversations that help them both to grow.
A marvellous, sweet, romantic book with its feet firmly in the real world.
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