Monday, April 2, 2018

Review of Olivia Twist


Olivia Twist: A dark past, a glittering future, and the world between them (Blink)Title: Olivia Twist

Author: Lorie Langdon

Chapters: 25 plus Epilogue

Pages: 331

Genre: Teen historical retelling

Rating: 5 stars

In Olivia Twist Lorie Langdon puts a twist on the classic tale of Oliver Twist. With the what if Oliver was actually a girl who do the times circumstances of her birth had to live as a boy for her own safety.   I hadn't looked at the story that way at all until Lorie proposed that question. But during the Victorian era boy orphans had a slightly easier life than girl orphans. Girl orphans only had one option and it wasn’t good.
We then fast forward 18 years when the story takes place. Olivia Brownlow is now 18 and living with her uncle who rescued her. She’s torn between two worlds helping London’s orphans and being a society lady.  After everything her uncle’s done for her she’s willing to do anything to help him even marry a man she doesn’t love. She thinks she has everything figured out when someone from her past returns.
Jack MacCarron has been taken in my the widow March and he’s determined to help her with what she needs done.  And then he is going to turn a new leaf and live his life as a gentleman. But then a person from his past returns and he’s in for the surprise of his life. Ollie is who he thought Ollie was.
Aside from a Christmas Carol Oliver Twist was my favorite Charles Dickens novel. I also loved Oliver and Company. So it was nice to read this retelling with a twist. You will laugh with the characters, cry with the characters. But more importantly you will want to talk sense into Olivia.  Overall I enjoyed this story and I can’t wait for the next book from Lorie Langdon. I am also looking forward to more YA retellings of classic novels.

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