Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Jingle
SERIES: Merry Elf-Mas
AUTHOR: Morgan Lysand
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 141 pages
RELEASE DATE: November 7, 2023
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It’s Christmas time again and Shae can’t wait to slide into Jingle—his elf persona—for a few weeks at the Frostdale mall. The costumes, the scents, the bright laughter, his friends. It all fuels him for the rest of the year. What he doesn’t anticipate is his entire world changing when his best friend moves back home after being away for eight long years.
Trace has had one goal in mind since his family moved away from Frostdale and that’s to get back. He’s finally saved enough money after college, and he’s home just in time for the holidays. He doesn’t expect to see Shae as anything other than his best friend, but once they’re together again, sparks fly and he can’t help but realize he wants something more.
Jingle is a best friends to lovers, sweet and spicy MM romance featuring a talented pianist that moonlights as a mall elf every Christmas and a web developer that wants to help unwrap him. Jingle is part of the Merry Elf-Mas multi-author series. Each story can be read as a standalone, but why not come along for the ride as each of Santa’s elves finds love during the holidays?
REVIEW:
Morgan Lysand…you did it! You captured my heart and brought Christmas Jingling in!
Shae can’t get enough of Christmas and puts his heart into making sure that, as head elf at the Frostdale Mall, Santa’s Village is perfect. Plus he has the Christmas concert he has auditioned for lead pianist and now his best friend, (who he has been crushing on forever but doesn’t know) in all the world is moving back home in time for his favorite holiday. Trace can’t wait to move back to Frostdale. He has been in Florida since he was fourteen and now can move back on his own and finally hang out with his BFF Shae. But when his meddling sister starts asking about his intentions with Shae he is confused. He knows that Shae came out when they were younger but he’s not so simple and he hates putting labels on things. But as soon as they are finally together there’s one thing that totally obvious to him…Shae is the one and now he has to make sure they are together!
Shae and Trace are so cute together that you might actually develop a toothache. They have been best friends forever and Shae knows he has crushed on his BFF for so long but he doesn’t want to mess up their lifelong friendship by hoping for a relationship. How would he survive if Trace turned him down. Or, worse yet, they do date and then it all go down in flames. Thankfully that’s not in the cards here. These two are perfect for each other and everyone that knows them have already has figured it out. It just takes Trace to open his eyes to see what is right in front of him. Thankfully he’s a man of action and he can’t wait to be with Shae forever.
This story just did it for me and now I want all the elves from Frostdale Mall’s Santa’s Village’s stories. Fun, fast read that will make you long for snow and Christmas songs.
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