Thursday, February 15, 2024

Book Review ~ THE HUSBAND SITUATION by Naima Simone

The Husband Situation (Rose Bend, #4.5)
by: Naima Simone
Series: Rose Bend
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: February 6, 2024
Publisher: Canary Street Press

When you marry your sister’s ex in Vegas, you’re in for a messy trip home…

When marketing exec Brooklyn Hayes wakes up in Vegas after a corporate team-building trip, she’s expecting the hangover. The ring on her finger, not so much. And nothing could have prepared her for the sight of her best friend—her sister’s ex—right there beside her. She has no idea how this happened, but the one thing she knows for sure is that no one from their nosy, close-knit hometown of Rose Bend can find out!

Graphic designer Patrick King is used to keeping secrets—starting with his crush on his ex’s sister. Since he doesn’t remember much about how they ended up married or the night they apparently spent together, it shouldn’t be hard for him to keep their elopement a secret too.

But the more time they spend together trying to figure out what to do, all while keeping their secret from the whole town, the more uncertain they become about ending their marriage. While their impromptu nuptials might’ve been a mistake, the growing love between them doesn’t feel like a mix-up. They’ll need a miracle to make it through without slipping up…or falling.


The Husband Situation is a standalone novella in the Rose Bend series. It is classic Naima Simone, with humor and burning up-the-sheets moments.

This interracial romance features Brooklyn Hayes, a plus-sized woman who has worked hard to accept her size and curves, and Patrick King, a man who hides a huge secret. If you love stories with trope upon trope layered on, this could be a story for you. The Husband Situation is a friends to lovers, forbidden, taboo, he falls first, waking up married romance.

Patrick has worked for Brooklyn for about four years. He’s been friends with her for almost as long. The two are very close, as is the rest of the Hayes family, especially since Patrick used to date Brooklyn’s younger sister. After way too many drinks during a team-building retreat in Las Vegas, Brooklyn and Patrick wake up to find themselves in bed together, each wearing matching ring pops and a marriage license on the nightstand.

While one is anxious to nullify the marriage, the other is hoping beyond hope that they are finally seen. Prepare yourself for a fun read, with a moment of pure love in Naima Simone’s The Husband Situation.

~ Favorite Quotes ~

“Don’t apologize for your feelings.”

“You should be a priority in your own life.”

**Received a copy of the book from the author and voluntarily reviewed it.**

Rating: 5

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The Rose Bend Series:
The Single Dad Project (Book 5) releases February 20, 2024

USA TODAY bestselling author Naima Simone writes romance with heart, humor and heat. 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, and mom to the most awesome kids ever. They live in perfect, domestically challenged bliss in the southern US.

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