Salty Pickle by J.J. Knight

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I’m headed to New York to confront the man I met on New Year’s Eve eight months ago.
I had to bring my goat.
And…I’m eight months pregnant.

The man I’m meeting in his fancy New York office is the saltiest hunk of male beauty you never want to cross. He wouldn’t know a smile if you drew one on his face.

I slept with him on a dare. Yes, we used protection.

Faulty protection, apparently.

I was going to raise the baby in my Colorado yurt with my pet goat Matilda. My two best girlfriends were going to be the other moms, but their lives moved on.

I’m a yoga teacher with forty dollars to my name. I had to hitchhike to get here.

I didn’t have a goat-sitter, so I’m loading Matilda onto the subway and headed to Wall Street.

It’s time to confront a salty baby daddy in a place called Pickle Media.

Salty Pickle

City boy, country girl!

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

The heroine: Lucy – she was a yoga instructor who lived in Colorado when her two friends dared her to flirt with a handsome but grumpy man at a hotel bar one night. Eight months later, her two friends have left for greener pastures, and on doctors orders she can’t teach her yoga classes anymore because of problems with her pregnancy, so she packs up and heads to New York city to find the baby daddy with $40 in her pocket and her tiny goat named Matilda.

The Hero: Court – he has a master’s degree and runs Pickle Media for his uncle Sherman. Though he recently found out that employee morale is at an all-time low. Nobody who works there likes it and if it wasn’t for how much they were paid, they would quit. As it is they are all looking for other jobs. He needs to turn things around and quickly. When a woman he once hooked up with shows up at his office, he agrees to see her but is dumbfounded when she comes in with a large pregnant belly. He immediately calculates how long ago they met, and it was eight months ago.

The story: Lucy is a naturalist, a vegetarian and lived off the grid in a yurt, she is a modern hippie who thinks that industrialized society is bad. She doesn’t have a phone and stayed with friends, who have since moved away, when it got too cold in Colorado. Court is a broody, gruff CEO in the financial district of New York city, who won’t believe the baby is his until a DNA test is performed. Though he decides that he can’t leave her alone in a strange city until the baby arrives, and the DNA test can be performed, so he rents her a place on a goat farm outside the city.

I really enjoyed this book, these two complete opposites getting to know each other was fun. I really liked Court, he was grouchy at the beginning, but he softened up pretty quickly and he really took care of Lucy and treated her like a fairy tale princess. He didn’t get along well with Matilda though, and that led to some pretty funny scenarios. I always like books where an animal is one of the main characters and provides some comic relief. J.J. Knight did well with that in this story and she wrote it like it was, not a blue-sky version of having a cute goat around. A goat is basically livestock, even if you put them in diapers sometimes, they had to get hay for the goat, deal with it pooping in places it shouldn’t and head-butting people it didn’t like. It made for an interesting story.

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