REVIEW: Jingle by Morgan Lysand (Merry Elf-Mas #1)

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JINGLE

Merry Elf-Mas - Book One

by Morgan Lysand

Release Date: November 7, 2023

Review

If you told me the Shae (aka Jingle) was a real-life elf, I would totally believe it. The chief elf of Frostdale Mall’s Santa village doesn’t know how to do anything half-arsed. This young and super-talented man brings a smile to everyone who knows him. But no one more than his best friend Trace.


Best friends since childhood, Trace and his family moved away but they never lost touch, writing letters (yes letters…be still my heart), but he’s finally moving back. Nothing could make them happier. Except realizing they are in love with each other. And maybe achieving their dream jobs.


This is a sweet, happy, loving story about a guy who is always too busy to take care of himself and one who loves making sure he’s taken care of. 


I love a sweet, fluffy holiday best friend-to-lovers story. It makes my Christmas-loving heart sore. And now I’m super excited to meet all the rest of this holiday crew.


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Synopsis

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?

About Morgan Lysand

I’m Morgan.


I’ve always been a reader and a daydreamer. My writer origin story is embarrassing now that I think about it. But also kinda funny, maybe. One day I might share. If people ask nicely. It involves a psychic.


I share an apartment with my sister in Southern Indiana where we keep the AC on year round and spend all our money at Target and weekly pizza. Okay, actually my sister spends all her money on K-Pop CDs (YES, CDs) and I spend all my money on books and writerly stuff.


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