A review by charnett89
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

5.0

After sitting on by TBR list for far too long, I finally put the time aside to read Oliver Twist. For as much as Dickens has always fascinated me, and despite my love and tradition of rereading The Christmas Carol, I had never given an honest effort to reading Dickens’s other work. I’m happy I decided to start with Twist because I feel like it served as a perfect starter guide for Dickens: all of the plot twists, expansive cast of characters, themes, wonderful descriptions of foggy London, without the length and time commitment of other members of my TBR (David Copperfield, Bleak House). While Oliver himself was a perfectly fine main character, the supporting cast in this novel really stole the show. From the tragic Nancy to the scheming Fagin, the hypocrisy of Mr. Bumble, and the villainous Bill Sikes, the cast of characters were constantly engaging and helped entertain, even when the plot was not directly dealing with Oliver, or at least did not seem to. All in all, I flew through the story, and I am looking forward to tackling the next Dickens classic off my TBR: Tale of Two Cities next?