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De: Naima Simone

Narrado por: La'Rey Aris, Sean Bassett

USA Today bestselling author Naima Simone heats up the page with intensity and wit in this romance between a pro hockey player and a firefighter, both struggling to move on from the past.

Being a firefighter isn’t easy. Especially for a Black woman. Working with family helps a little. But when somebody from your company doesn’t come back from a call, it’s brutal—as in, “How’m I supposed to go on?” brutal.

And one death took me to a really dark place.

A year later, I’m at the Pirates’ hockey training facility. Just another day on the job. Until I find a charred journal. I look inside for the owner’s name, but the words on the page punch me in the gut. It’s like reading my own thoughts. Reliving my own pain.

The journal belongs to Solomon Young, left-winger for the Pirates—a father and widower. When I return it, I’m racked with guilt for the invasion of privacy. The look Solomon gives me is cold as ice.

But damn if that man isn’t hot as hell.

Now he’s stuck in my brain. And fate seems intent on making us face off.

©2024 by Naima Simone. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Reseñas de la Crítica

“This touching, funny, sexy novel from Simone is a joy to read and is sure to be popular…” —Library Journal (starred review)

“Naima Simone stuns with this heartwarming romance about a woman firefighter and a hockey player. Solomon and Adina's romance is just the right mixture of humor, angst and heat. An exhilarating literacy experience.” —LJ Shen, Wall Street Journal bestselling author

“Unputdownable. I was either giggling and kicking my feet or feeling my heart squeeze at the poignancy. Maybe the best hockey book I’ve ever read.” —Kenya Goree-Bell, bestselling author

Sloooowwww Burn!

This was a really good story. It took a lot for me to stick with this book because it was an extremely slow burn. A lot of descriptions for the same thing. The narrators were very good.

Beautiful 😻

I got more than I was expecting. This was a beautiful black love romance. It was depths to the characters. I was wanting more.

Spunky and Smart

I loved the characters in this romance. Naima Simone never fails to write strong, slinky and witty women, and Adina and Noni kept me cackling throughout the book. But I really loved Solomon’s gruff and caustic delivery. He says it like it is, and I loved his dry delivery and witty comebacks. I enjoyed the banter between the characters and the loyalty between siblings and friends. I especially loved the way Naima addressed how grief can result in family members overstepping boundaries.

Along with very steamy and passionate scenes, we get to experience both Adina and Solomon’s growth and journey to self-love, romance and their HEA!!

I could not stop!!!!

OMG!!! The narrators are AWESOME!, especially the male narrator. His voice was panty dropping sexy!!!! Give me all the books he’s narrating !!! This book had me hooked from beginning to end. Do yourself a favor and LISTEN to this audio. It makes a huge difference, I promise!!!! It’s everything.

great read

I really enjoyed reading this author.  I look forward to reading more books by this author in the near future.

Played

I really enjoyed Adina and Solomon’s story. I’m a fool for a good hockey romance and I loved that Adina was a bada** female firefighter. Both have lost their partners and while Solomon has played the field and isn’t looking for something serious, Adina is wondering if she’s ready to get back to dating. These types of books always make me think….what if? The author packed in a good balance of each of their personal lives and then getting to know each other. My only complaint was that I felt the ending was abrupt. I did flop back and forth between the book and audiobook. Overall the audiobook was performed well. I wasn’t a huge fan of the female narrator and how she accented certain words when it wasn’t written that way. Khalil absolutely stole the show.

Loved it

I really enjoyed this story, showing forgiveness, hope and love in black people is amazing. The story was lovable, relatable and hot!

So Good! Hope this becomes a series

Wow what beautiful reflection of loss and love. I really enjoyed the banter and the conversations around being Black and a woman in the fire department and being a Biracial man in the NHL. Wish we had a longer happy ending or epilogue. Both narrators were phenomenal. Wish Solomon voiced the bedroom scenes or it was duet narration though.

Slow Burn 🔥

This was a slow burn but it made it so much better. The narration was excellent! They really encompassed the characters.

An amazing read!

This whole book was well written, as serious as it got the way this writer perfectly balanced humor to this was top tier. The performance of the narrators was sooooo good! 100% will not be disappoint. The only thing I wish we had an epilogue or a bounce chapter of there future to have that happy ever after or a proper ending then what we were given but other than that this is a really well written, well preformed story.