Stealing Christmas by Paul Heatley is about two guys, Teddy and Bud, who’ve been sacked from their jobs, Teddy for being an ex-con, and his friend Bu who is considered guilty by association, and Teddy reckons that if people treat him like a bad guy, he might as well behave like one. Hence his plan to rob their former boss and the company’s higher-ups on Christmas Eve, while they’re all at the company’s Christmas party. One more job, and then skip town and move on to a better life. However, Teddy and Bud are not the only Grinches at large this Christmas…
The blurb compares Teddy and Bud to the goons from Home Alone, and so I thought I wouldn’t care for them at all. I was wrong. Sure, breaking and entering on Christmas Eve, and getting away with all valuables, including the presents, effectively stealing Christmas, is a wicked thing to do, but I felt like there are some extenuating circumstances and the men have some redeeming qualities to boot, and I couldn’t help but like them.
Festive? Yes! Set on Christmas Eve, there’s presents, carollers, snow, decorations, singing Christmas songs in the car, …
Non-festive? Yes! Theft is just the beginning!
Verdict: this is the perfect non-festive festive read, super quick and lots of fun, recommended!
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