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BOOKWORK REVIEW: Ravaged by Naima Simone


RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
SPICE: 🔥🔥🔥.5

The angst. The pining. Miriam and Jordan can definitely generate feelings in a reader's heart..and well, down there.

After a brief fling, these two decided that they were better off friends. You know the saying "Absence makes the heart grow fonder?" In their case, the absence of intimate touch has led to a serious amount of longing and emotional connection. The platonic area in which they have firmly tried to put each other has bloomed into a great, flirty friendship with some delicious unresolved tension simmering underneath.

The angst is definitely real between these two. Naima Simone turns the tension knob all the way up when Jordan encourages Miriam to date one of his teammates, leaving us readers at the edge of our seats as we sit through the slow burn.

Boy, was the wait worth it. The spice was definitely hot, hot, hot.

This book is the second in the Burned, Inc. series, but it can be read as a standalone.

** I am voluntarily reviewing an advance copy of this book. Thank you to Naima Simone, Montlake, and NetGalley for providing an ARC. **

ABOUT THE BOOK

From USA Today bestselling author Naima Simone comes an electrifying romance about a pro basketball player and a graphic novelist who can’t seem to stay in the friend zone.

Miriam
It’s no coincidence that my family’s breakup service is called BURNED Inc. I know what it’s like to be dumped. I’ve been there.

Long story short, I’ve got a rule when it comes to my love life: no athletes. As it happens, my best friend, Jordan, is a professional basketball player. He also has a delicious body and sexy tattoos.

But rules are rules.

Jordan
Miriam is my best friend. She’s also the love of my life, the woman I’ve been dreaming about since we met. But she doesn’t do athletes.

I get it. I really do. And I just want Miriam to be happy. Which is why I set her up with a teammate to help her find the man she deserves—even though I can tell she’s into me from that one hot-as-hell night we shared months ago. Still, rules are rules.

But here’s the thing: I’m a competitor.

And sometimes you have to break the rules to win.


 

MEET NAIMA SIMONE

Published since 2009, USA Today Bestselling author Naima Simone loves writing sizzling romances with heart, a touch of humor and snark. Her books have been featured in The Washington Post and Entertainment Weekly, and described as balancing “crackling, electric love scenes with exquisitely rendered characters caught in emotional turmoil.”

She is wife to Superman, or his non-Kryptonian, less bulletproof equivalent, and mother to the most awesome kids ever. They all live in perfect, sometimes domestically-challenged bliss in the southern United States.

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