Entertaining Christmas story of the time Police aka the world's most halpless and incompetent terrifying faceless enforcers. This one centres the marvellous Grint (massive thug with soft centre, but only for literally two people in the whole world) dealing with a sad orphan boy. I'm really enjoying catching up with this series, and especially how the 'male romance star' energy has shifted from Luke (obnoxious rich boy of the kind who usually gets to be the hero and have a redemption arc) to Grin...

Ah, these short but highly entertaining Christmas stories are always more than welcome!It's Christmas (yes, I know I'm late, sue me) and the Time Police has decided / possible been roped into giving a Christmas party complete with funny games for the children of an orphanage. It's none other than Lt. Grint who makes a fateful acquaintance that ends with him, Jane and temporal anomaly causing mayhem ... or potentially saving the day. Depending on whose report it is you're reading in the end. ;)An...

These xmastime time-travel shorts are a staple of my diet, now, and yet, this one was late! Alas!

Fortunately, we still get a Tiny Tim story and a bubble universe, so all's good. :)

4 Stars

This is my favorite of the Jodi Taylor Christmas season novellas. It’s all Time Police with no involvement of St. Mary’s, and is thus different in tone from the usual holiday romps, but is delightful and just whets my appetite for the next novel.

I have a BookTube channel where I review books, give reading suggestions, and more! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/dragonarmybooks---Every Christmas I look forward to reading the new Jodi Taylor short story. This year, I was even more excited because we got our first Time Police Christmas story!I'm seeing some reviewers complain that it wasn't "Christmassy" enough. I didn't even realize that until I read some reviews because I was sucked into the story. Jodi is just so good with writ...

Don't let the title fool you. This is not really a Christmas story, however it does have a Christmas party for Orphans where Grint is bombarded by orphans who much like cats found the one person in the room that liked them the least to attach on to.Wanted to build some good will with the citizens after some bad press after a few explosions and muck ups. How best to do this throw a time police Christmas party with some of the orphans down the street. When Grint meets Simon he bonds with the kid a...

Although this might not be as Christmassy as some of Jodi Taylor's other Christmas novellas, there is a children's Christmas party where Lieutenant Grint meets Simon, and that sets off a series of wild events in this charming novella. As always Jodi Taylor delivers both comedy and action in this fun, heart-touching, and adventurous story. We get a great look at the real Lieutenant Grint. He might be a giant, intimidating brute, but he's a marshmallow inside. His quest to help Simon at risk of hi...

*whispers* I didn't really like this one.It lacked the whimsy of the traditional St Mary's Christmas story, and in fact didn't really feel that Christmassy at all. I like the TP characters usually, but here they just felt a bit insubstantial - as though they're running around aimlessly in a plot that's a bit loose on detail. It lacked conviction, and as a result it lost my interest.Look,it gets a 3 star just for being set in the St Mary's/TP world but I really missed Max and the more sentimental...

St Mary's still does it better.

I'm not saying this Christmas story wasn't good, I'm just saying that I missed Max, Peterson and Markham.

Anyway, for their first Christmas story/party the Time Police did well.