Jingle

By: Morgan Lysand

Narrated by: Avery Wilde

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 listened to as a standalone, but why not come along for the ride as each of Santa’s elves finds love during the holidays?

©2023 Morgan Lysand (P)2025 Morgan Lysand

Loved it

Jingle is part of the Merry Elf-Mas multi-author series. Each book can be read as a standalone but I love reading all the books in a series. Jingle is about Shae who loves becoming Jingle the elf at the mall every Christmas and his best friend Trace who just moved back to town. This is a sweet fluffy story. I loved both of the guys. There is plenty of heat in the book. This is a friends to lovers story. Morgan has an amazing story telling ability and I'm happy she shares it with us. If get the audio narration, Avery Wilde does a wonderful job of narrating this series. He makes the change in characters seamlessly. I can't wait to listen to the next book. I would definitely recommend this book

Boyfriends to lovers

I received a copy of the audiobook from Booksprout and this is my voluntary review.

I enjoyed the audiobook story of Shae and Trace, two best friends for life, inseparable until the age of 14 when Trace’s family moved away, but still connected over the next 8 years with hand-written letters, texts, and phone calls, although they hadn’t seen each other in that time. Shae is ecstatic to learn his best friend is moving back to town. He has really missed Trace all these years, and Trace feels the same. When they meet again, both are excited but something feels a little off. They don’t realize it, but everyone around them can tell they aren’t just best friends, they love each other. Shae has known for years he is gay, but Trace has been experimenting the years they’ve been apart, trying to figure out his own sexuality, and once he sees Shae again, he pretty well knows what he is. Now to share with Shay and see if he feels the same.

Their big reveal gets interrupted so many times, it’s a miracle it ever gets shared, but once they’ve accepted they love each other, the heat level rises. All of this is happening alongside Shae’s “job” at the local mall as an elf for Santa at Christmas, as he juggles elf-ing, his regular job and his music (he’s a concert pianist), and time for Trace, so they can be together. The reader gets drawn into the lives of these two as they realize, then accept, then pursue their love for each other, with a cute “culmination” in the epilogue. Trace’s family are adorable, and Shae’s mom is a second mother to Trace. Both families help facilitate the two getting together, sometimes not very subtly at all.

I liked the narrator, his voice was clear and pronunciation was distinct (I have trouble with certain tones and I could hear all the words perfectly.). I also enjoyed the different voices for the characters, especially the younger children, it wass obvious when characters changed. When I do an audiobook, I usually listen and read because I am much more a reader than listener, but on this one I was trying to do an easy task at the same time so just listened. I found I could follow easily while still multitasking and don’t feel I missed anything in the story. I enjoyed Shae’s elf-ing and his interactions with his coworkers, the dedication he put into creating his musical piece (at times with Trace’s help) and the way it come together once he realized the story he was actually trying to tell with his music, and I also appreciated the symbolism of the stars to both men and their lives. The story was epwell written and narrated in my view, and if your into sties about elves, Christmas, friends to lovers, and some humorous times, I think you would enjoy this book, whether just listening or reading and listening together.

Sparkles and love

Shae and Trace were adorable together and I enjoyed their journey from friends to lovers.
They had some insecurities and hurdles along the way, but meddling family and friends help them sort their feelings.
I really enjoyed the narrator’s way of bringing to life the story with his voices and inflexions, and I really appreciated some key points how they were acted.
It was an endearing story with holiday magic and a love that evolved to give them the happiness they deserved.

Cute, friends to lovers holiday romance

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

This was a cute, friends-to-lovers holiday romance. I’m honestly impressed that Shaw and Trace managed to write actual letters to each other consistently for eight years before Trace moved back to their hometown. Though I’ve never met someone like Shae, it felt refreshing to see someone who embraces how much they love something and the effort they put into it (specifically, Christmas and having an elf persona for a ‘North Pole’ area at the mall for kids to visit Santa at).

Christmas romance

Jingle by Morgan Lysand is a great Christmas romance. Avery Wilde did a great job with the narration. The story is entertaining, interesting, enjoyable, funny, and more.

I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.