Jackie Phamotse’s Bare is a novel reminiscent of Jackie Collins novels but instead of being in the larger than life Hollywood drama, Bare is set in the glitzy Sandton streets of Johannesburg, with its the shadowy world of The Hockey club, a League of the filthy rich. There is no fairy Godmother in this story but there’s a character who could easily be a Godfather, or a minister of finance as Blessers are known.īeing blunt about it The Blesser phenom is just a way to put lipstick on the pig that is predatory behavior by the privileged. Well be careful what you wish for, sometimes the devil wears a million dollar suit and might be a government minister even. Treasure dreams of one day living “T he Dream” like in The Devil Wears Prada. Treasure’s father barely makes ends meet and carries around a dark temper with his wife being on the receiving end. The novel Bare follows the story of Treasure Mohapi’s journey from the her childhood, in the turbulent post apartheid era, hailing from mining town of Westonaria where her father has sweated to move them from Soweto. You know, when a rich usually an older male, spoils rotten a younger usually female (also known as Slay Queens), in return for a life of pampered luxury in exchange for sexual favours, maybe even dignity and before you know it your soul……
The Blesser Game follows the as yet unspoken of fundamentals of The Blesser, Blessee relationship. Bare: The Blesser Game is a coming of age fairy tale, no it’s not a fairytale, it’s about how the real world eats and spits out naive souls…
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