Tracy‘s review of Elfing Around by J Morgan.
Making the Naughty List is an Elfing good time!
It’s December 23rd and Essie is far from the North Pole. She’s an elf outta’ luck: Her equipment fails and she’s arrested by the local Barney Fife. She’s willing to risk making Santa’s Naughty List if it nabs her the sheriff of her dreams.
The only way out of trouble is through it, and Essie’s elfish mix of nice and naughty can make it happen. Love, North Pole style, would wrap this adventure up with a shiny red bow. It’ll take a holiday miracle to bless the by-the-book sheriff and a down-on-her-luck elf.
Essie, one of Santa’s Elves, gets arrested in a small town for being a a prostitute. I mean why else would she be out in an elf suit at 9:30pm??
She’s just in town to check out to make sure Santa’s Naughty & Nice list is correct when her cloaking Equipment fails. While she’s in the Sheriff’s station she meets Dalton, The Sheriff, and tries to come up with a believable story as to why she’s walking around town dressed like an elf. Dalton thinks she has nowhere to go so he tells her she can stay in his spare room for the night.
Well once they get back to Dalton’s house things heat up. Unfortunately Santa does a little interrupting, but it’s all good in the end.
This was a pretty cute, creative holiday short story. Dalton is a kind man and feels a connection to Essie immediately. Essie is having some serious naughty thoughts about Dalton but human/elf relations are strictly forbidden. Dalton and Essie have a bit too much of any instomatic love for me, but I was able to suspend belief and things all work out in the end.
Rating: 3.75 out of 5
This book is available in e-format only from Lyrical Press. You can buy it here.
This sounds like a nice piece of holiday fluff to enjoy at Christmas.