Title: Juicy Pickle
A Pickleverse Standalone
Author: JJ Knight
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Tropes: Boss and Assistant/Deserted Island
Enemies to Lovers
Release Date: January 12, 2024
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Can you imagine getting stuck alone on a deserted island with the person you hate most in the world? And no end in sight?
Well, that’s me. Bailey Johansson, former assistant to the absolute worst boss ever to boss in the boss world. Stranded on a tiny island owned by a cruise line in an abandoned party hut.
In a tropical storm.
This is not a love story.
It’s not a tale of redemption or heroism.
It’s a revenge drama. No — a revenge COMEDY.
Because I’ll get the last laugh. The cruise ship leaving early due to an approaching storm while we yelled at each other on the opposite beach was a SIGN.
I’m going to get that man back for everything he did to me. I’ve decided that Mr. Juicy, as my old coworkers called him (yeah, THAT’S a story), is going to rue the day he ever fired me.
And no, I’m not going to fall in love with him.
Not on your life.
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Juicy Pickle is the wildest not-love story that ever became a love story between a boss and his former assistant, stuck together on a private island with a manual-crank margarita machine and a ten-gallon bucket of pickles, surviving primarily on adrenaline and stress-banging. It’s part of the Top 100 bestselling Pickleverse, but you do not need to read any of the other books before this one. You can start your wild adventure with the Pickle family right here.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars
I have been reading the Pickle Family books from the beginning, and I love that JJ Knight has extended the Pickleverse with the cousins. In Juicy Pickle, we have Rhett Montgomery, brother of naked hiker Axel from Tasty Pickle. Rhett is the CEO of a successful company, silently and secretly backed by Uncle Sherman (from the OG series). Two weeks before the book begins, Rhett had fired his assistant, Bailey, over a marketing snafu without ever investigating the claims.
The book opens as Bailey is sneaking onto a cruise ship for a company anniversary sailing. Sure, she’s not supposed to be there, but where is the fun in that? She manages to pretty much go undetected Day 1 and 2, and makes her grand reveal to her former colleagues on Day 3 at the private island. Of course, when Rhett sees Bailey, he goes ballistic. Not only because he fired her, but because he’s had the hots for her from Day One, and now she’s wearing just a bikini. Then the fun starts: The two accidentally get stranded on the island when an unexpected tropical storm rolls through, and need to put their hate for each other aside in order to survive.
There’s a fine line between love and hate, right? It gets crossed pretty quickly. As it turns out, the only reason Rhett was so prickly with Bailey the past two years was because he mistakenly thought she was unavailable. When the hate-fueled tension between these two combusts, it’s electric!
Once Rhett and Bailey get rescued, will their island romance survive? Will they discover who was behind the snafu that led to her firing? And what will Rhett do once his true identity is revealed?
I loved this book. It was funny and spicy, and had the same charm and humor that the earlier Pickle books have! Well done!
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review
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JJ Knight is the USA Today and Amazon Top 100 bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic comedy including Single Dad on Top and Big Pickle.
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