Juicy Pickle by J.J. Knight

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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.

Juicy Pickle

Cute and funny deserted island romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌏
Character development: 🙂🥰😎 😃😋

The heroine: Bailey – she was recently fired from Dougherty Inc. for something that was not her fault. Her former work bestie Viola was the one at fault and for that they are no longer besties. Add to that, the fact that she was fired just two short weeks before the entire company was going on a cruise to celebrate the company anniversary, and Bailey was not a happy camper. She had gotten her reservation before she was fired, and she still planned to go on the vacation despite the fact that her cranky boss Rhett fired her. After putting up with him for more than two years, she deserved this break.

The Hero: Rhett – After getting on the cruise ship, he thought he spotted his former assistant Bailey, but he must have been mistaken. She did something that was damaging to the company, so he’d had no choice but to fire her. He was glad it happened before the cruise because he had enough trouble with his attraction to her in an office setting, being with her on a cruise would be downright painful. He planned to keep caught up on work during the four-day cruise anyway, despite the fact that the whole company was on the ship and the office phones were being manned by temps. Though he would have to join the others a few times and show his face since he was the head of the company and the right-hand man of Dougherty (his uncle).

The Story: Rhett had fired Bailey based on the word of Viola that Bailey had been embezzling money from the company based on a fraudulent marketing campaign. Bailey didn’t know why Viola did that, but she was no longer speaking to Viola. Rhett hadn’t really had time yet to investigate the charges fully, but he intended to do that while on the cruise. However, when they go to a private island for the day, Bailey and Rhett each go off on their own to the other side of the island when a storm comes up out of nowhere and the rest of the passengers and crew return to the ship and the ship leaves the area.

I liked this deserted island romance. It was cute and funny and I loved that the two main characters had at least some amenities, even if it was only a few things, and the fact that they knew even if they weren’t missed by their coworkers, there would eventually be another cruise stopping by the island, so they didn’t have to worry about never being rescued. The fact that Rhett had always held himself back from wanting Bailey because he thought she had a live-in boyfriend named Maxwell added something to the plot as well. Especially since Maxwell was Bailey’s cat.

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