This was an intense, quick read that I absolutely loved! Creepy to think of the things that can happen the further we advance in technology and this was such a fun play on that thought!!

Twinkle twinkle little star, would you let me drive your car?🤩🚘


Eve Alexopoulos has made it!! She bought a brand new luxury "Sunray"; solar power, double battery, self-driving and it comes with all the bells and whistles!

Eve grew up poor, but she's a successful journalist at "Said" digital magazine. Her specialty is online troll hunting with a column she started, "What's Your Problem, Bro?" and a book deal.

Eve's success comes with a price. She gets death threats, poo on her doorstep, the works. She can handle these things but her boss has decided that her column is done after a bomb hoax that scares other employees. Will Eve get fired? She already paid for the freaking car...!

OMG, this short story is wild! I love Gardner's sharp and snappy writing style. Eve In Overdrive is my 4th story by the author and is part of the Jolvix series that are all standalone stories. I wish the ending wasn't as rushed, but other than that it was quick and entertaining. Check it out if you enjoy light sci-fi psycho thrillers. You better buckle up and hold on tight for this one!

Thank you Mirror House Press for this DRC.

This was my first book by this author and it definitely won't be my last. Why did I wait so long to read her books. This was so unique, so different from the usual thrillers I read and I am here for it !

This is the 5th installment in the Jolvix episodes and it's a novella. They can all be read in any order. I truly loved the near future aspect of these, how crazy technology is evolving and how scary it's becoming. This book was very unique and I loved it. This is a one sitting bingeable read that you will not want to put down. It's small but packs a great punch.

I went in completely blind and loved my experience, I would recommend everyone to do the same. I was honestly on the edge of my seat through it all to see what the outcome would be.

I loved Gardner's writing style it was so engaging, addictive and easy flowing. This story was fast paced and never let up. I am definitely picking up the others in this series.

If you're looking for a short action packed thriller do yourself a favor and pick up this little gem!

✨️Thank you to @netgalley & @faith.gardner for my free ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley this a a awesome eARC.

Fun, unusual exciting author, makes for an excellent thriller. Can't wait to see more from this author!

Another absolutely amazing book by Faith Gardner. She can't write these Jolvix novels fast enough (as far as my friends and I are concerned)! Eagerly awaiting the next one.

Eve Alexopoulos, a multi-talented journalist, columnist, writer, and renowned troll hunter, finds herself the proud owner of a cutting-edge Sunray—an ingeniously customized self-driving vehicle engineered by Jolvix, a prominent tech company.

Unfortunately, Eve's day takes a rough turn, starting with a less-than-ideal morning. However, she decides to seize the opportunity to take the rest of the day off and collect her brand new Sunray from the dealership. Little does she know that her journey will quickly spiral into a calamitous and utterly dreadful day on the highway.

Eve in Overdrive, The Jolvix Episodes #5, offers an exhilarating and unpredictable rollercoaster ride—a perfect way to spend a leisurely Saturday afternoon. I was completely engrossed and couldn't tear myself away from the book. This is the second installment I've read in this series, and both have provided a distinct and imaginative glimpse into a fascinating 'near-future' world.

I won't reveal too much, as the novella is best experienced with little prior knowledge. Trust me, do yourself a favor and resist reading the synopsis; instead, head directly to a reputable book site and download this captivating gem onto your preferred reading device. Then, simply dive right in and devour it. You'll undoubtedly appreciate it later.

I wholeheartedly recommend this book, awarding it a well-deserved 3-star rating! ⭐⭐⭐

A self driving car! What the! A quick and not so easy read. Part sci fi part physcological thriller. A nice little twist.

I am a fan of The Jolvix Episodes, and this book was a LOT of action packed into a 98-page novella! The self-driving car concept made me think of "The Passengers" by John Marrs (which I absolutely loved!)

I don't want to say too much, but I will say that this is an awesome addition to The Jolvix Episodes franchise! (The Jolvix Episodes books can be read in any order!)

Be ready to go on an adventure with a crazy stalker that has control of a self-driving car.

Eve in Overdrive will keep you entertained and you will not be able to stop until you have finished the book, wanting more. Eve has brought a self driving car taken over someone that she has not said nice things about.

If you love suspense, drama, sci fic & drama - this is the book for you.

Congratulations on yet another great novel, Faith Gardner.

Thank you to NetGalley and Mirror House Press for the opportunity to review this ARC for my honest review.

I received this book as a NetGalley ARC. I stayed up all night just to finish this! I absolutely loved it. Faith has an original and relatable style of writing that instantly makes you want to be in the story!

4.5🌟
Buckle up, Eve!

Eve is an online journalist who’s become a sensation after devoting her writing to calling out trolls! (You go, girl!) But after a recent bomb scare, her company may have no taste for this kind of heat.

Hey Eve, how about a nice quiet, leisurely drive in your brand new Jolvix car to explore new horizons…so to speak. 😉

Big problem though. The last troll Eve just outed happens to be the same Jolvix engineer who programmed her car! (oh oh!).

If this were a movie, we’d be shouting at the screen, “Don’t do it Eve!"

Once again, Faith Gardner has given us a peek into the future with Jolvix and their latest Sunray solar powered, self-driving luxury car! What an imagination! It’s got just enough sci-fi to scare me silly. But realistic enough to know this indeed may be part of our future. (Not for this gal!)

Amen Maxine remains my favorite of this series. But this latest novella is definitely a close second!

Ok, Faith! I’m ready for my next Jolvix installment!🚗🚘

Thank you to NetGalley and Mirror House Press

This is the second book I have read of Faith Gardner after ‘Amen Maxine’ and this has a technology & AI backdrop as well. This is a fairly short, easy to read and very entertaining story.

Eve is a journalist with the Said magazine, who has a popular column “What’s Your Problem, Bro?” which calls out online trolls. She does not directly identify them, but posts details of their behaviour. A flashback tells us that Eve was always the bold person – once calling out abusive behaviour on a bus when nobody else was willing to do so or even support her. She receives threats frequently for what she writes. While her column might end soon she has a good book advance, and buys herself a new solar powered, automatic AI powered self-driving car – a Sunray from the company Jolvix. A short while after she takes possession of the car, she is stunned when the car stops responding to her instructions and she hears a voice – Henry, an engineer with Jolvix, one of the people she has written about in her column. A wild ride is to follow.

This is a very entertaining story which sticks to a minimal set of characters and a simple plot. The interactions between Eve and Henry make for interesting reading but fall short of being imaginative. I liked the story for its simplicity, but the novelty element in the storyline wore off past half-way.

A quick light read!

My rating: 3.75 / 5.

Vroom! Vroom! Eve finds herself on quite a road trip in this latest Jolvix episode. Part of the fun is discovering all the plot details as Faith Gardner chooses to reveal them, so I will keep this short. My favorite thing in this book was the solar-powered car. No need to plug in or stop for fuel. A very cool feature. I was not a big fan of Eve as a character and did not feel like she learned a bloomin' thing from her experience. Trigger warning: social media bullying/cancelling. This book comes out tomorrow, March 23, 2023.

A big thank you to Faith Gardner, Mirror House Press, and NetGalley for a DRC in exchange for an honest review.

The format of this novella was perfect for Eve's fast paced trip across the country in her new, over-the-top, self-driving Sunray. The only problem? It's a trip Eve hadn't planned on.

Faith Gardner is wonderful at capturing her character's thought processes, be they human or technological. In Eve in Overdrive, she's thought of everything. We get to hear Eve's thoughts and feel her physical discomfort. We are in the driver's seat (or passenger seat, because you know...it's self-driving) and we see everything through Eve's eyes. I don't want to give away spoilers, but I definitely caught myself wondering what I would do if I was in her situation..

FYI, I would not have bought this book if I saw the cover, but as a fan of Faith Gardner's other works (read them!) I took a chance and had an entertaining two hour read!

Thank you to NetGalley and Mirror House Press for the chance to read Gardner's latest in the Jolvix series!

Eve in Overdrive by Faith Gardner is a Crazy, Wild Ride!

Eve Alexopoulos, journalist, columnist, writer, and professional troll hunter is also the proud owner of a brand new Sunray. It's a self-driving, solar-powered vehicle that's fully customized and programmed by an engineer from the tech behemoth, Jolvix.

Today, Eve's day gets off to a bit of a rough start, not a great morning, you might say. She decides to take the rest of the day off to pick-up her new Sunray from the dealership. After she drives off the lot and hits the highway, it turns into a really horrible, terrible, very bad day...

Eve in Overdrive, The Jolvix Episodes #5, is a crazy, wild ride and great way for me to spend a lazy Saturday afternoon. I couldn't and didn't want to stop reading. This is the second book I've read in this series and both have delivered a very different and unique 'near-future' experience.

I don't want to say too much though, as it's best to go in as blind as possible with this whip-fast novella. Do yourself a favor, don't read the synopsis, instead go directly to a book site to download this little gem on your favorite device. Then.Go.Read.It. You can thank me later.

I highly recommend! 4 stars!⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thank you to NetGalley, Mirror House Press, and Faith Gardner for an ARC of this book. It has been an honor to give my honest and voluntary review.

Thank you NetGalley and Mirror House Press for the copy of Eve In Overdrive. I have enjoyed other Jolvix Episodes so I was really looking forward to this book and it didn’t disappoint me. The novella format was perfect and kept the book short and snappy. It was easy to picture Eve and what she was going through and really made me ponder what she had done that led to it. I loved how she kept trying different things to get out of her predicament. The car was a great futuristic ‘character’. If you’re new to this series, this is a great book to start with. If you have read others this is a worthy follow on!

I loved this book. this book has so much twist and turns it will keep you on the edge of your seat. There is danger, action, suspense, and romance. I highly recommend this one.

I will say reading the entire series and loving it, this one fell flat. I liked the idea of Eve trying to confront keyboard warriors aka trolls in both the physical and computer aspects and applaud her for that. That concept worked for me, however my pet peeve is rude people and have been in her position(do you say something or be silent), but the idea of Henry and his plight just didn't work for me. I can't put my finger on it but something was amiss for me, maybe because it was a novella. I love this series but if I had to rank this is the lowest out of them all.

At the end the author said she had a crossover character. Can you all help me on that one as I somehow missed. it.

Thank you to Netgalley, publisher and author for my advanced copy.

Hunka Munka.......

This one has teeth.

Faith Gardner does it again with her fourth edition in her Jolvix Series. Gardner has a windstorm of creativity circulating in all the corners and niches in her mind. She can come up with a stellar idea in the time it takes the average individual to replace the cap on the toothpaste tube. Done. Delivered. Top notch.

Eve Alexopoulos arrives at her office building running late and out of breath as usual. There's a load of police vehicles surrounding thebuilding including EMS at the ready. A bomb scare this time. Oh, and the party that flipped the switch on this one begins with a capital "E".

Eve is an investigative journalist at the digital Said Magazine. She sniffs out trolls like a dog with a bone. And she makes these bottom feeders pay with outing their identity to the public. "What's Your Problem, Bro?" is a massive success until the blowback is no longer profiting the magazine. The Troll Nation doesn't like to be outed and they respond with making Eve's life miserable. From exploding dog poop on her frontstep to......well, yeah, bomb scares......they've cornered her.

Add to that the fact that that cup of coffee her boss took her out for had a big price tag. She's fired. Speaking of big price tags, Eve signed on the dotted line for a brand new Sunray solar powered car. And here's where the story starts to bite back. Eve will be the next best thing to a hood ornament on that sleek bolt of lightning on four wheels.

If you haven't had the pleasure of reading a Faith Gardner novel, get crackin'. They all read as standalones. My favorite is Amen Maxine. Gardner is a force. She's the gift that keeps on giving. Grab one immediately if not sooner.

I received a copy of this book through NetGalley for an honest review. My thanks to Mirror House Press and to the talented Faith Gardner for the opportunity.

“There is no such thing as the life you had before."

I read Eve in Overdrive back in November when it was offered as a newsletter exclusive but I loved it so much I wanted to read it again. I've always been a fan of Stephen King's Christine and this fast paced novella is a modern, technologically advanced take on that.

Eve has found success through writing her column "What's Your Problem, Bro?", profiling online trolls and exposing who these bullies are in real life in an effort to hold them accountable for their behavior. She has earned such great success that she's offered a lucrative book deal and she uses the advance to buy a Sunray, a luxury solar-powered, self-driving car that's customized and programmed by an engineer at Jolvix.

Not everyone appreciates Eve's column, however, most notably the people she writes about. She's accustomed to receiving death threats and perhaps she's inviting danger into her life but she wants to speak up in the face of unfair treatment instead of remaining complacent. Unfortunately, Henry, the engineer who has programmed her car, is one of the trolls she wrote about.

What a wild ride!! Now Eve is trapped in her car, controlled remotely by this unhinged psychopath, her fate in his hands. The tension never stopped as I took this ride with Eve, constantly wondering what Henry was going to do and what would happen to Eve. What was his endgame? Not only was this story reminiscent of Christine, but I also felt vibes from Speed, a movie I absolutely loved. Would Eve ever escape this madness?

"It occurred to me at that moment that I didn’t understand humanity at all."

I thought Eve was the perfect character for this story, a snarky, determined badass. Despite her predicament, she was strong and fierce and I couldn't stop anticipating how this would all play out. Henry fit the role of online troll well too, morally gray in terms of the things he viewed as wrong as he tried to justify his actions throughout. He was utterly creeptastic and the perfect combination of deranged and intimidating, always seeming to be just one step away from going further off the rails. Buckle your seat belt and get ready for a crazy ride! Another winner from Faith Gardner!

"I don’t know how I could have done the right thing in that situation. Maybe there was no “right thing” to do."

The ending came together in the perfect twist of fate and it made this entire crazy journey all the more worthwhile. Ultimately, this was a story about people taking responsibility for the consequences of their actions. In any situation, when your freedom and autonomy are taken away, hold true to your convictions and fight for what you believe in by using your voice instead of staying silent. And that is how justice will inevitably be served.

** Special thanks to author Faith Gardner, Mirror House Press and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this ARC. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own. Quotes subject to change at time of publication. Available March 23, 2023. **