Hardcover
English language
Published Dec. 14, 2012 by HarperCollins.
"In an alternative version of Victorian London, a seventeen-year-old Dodger, a cunning and cheeky street urchin, unexpectedly rises in life when he saves a mysterious girl, meeets Charles Dickens, and unintentionally puts a stop to the murders of Sweeny Todd"--
The first time I tried to read this I gave up, not sure why. This time I was much more captured by a fun victorian romp through London sewers with the origins of many well known dickens characters.
3-. This reimagining of the teenage Jack Dawkins/Artful Dodger as, for the most part, the hero (hero-adjacent?) includes characters Sweeney Todd, writer Charles Dickens, and politician Benjamin Disraeli.
It was an OK read. I didn't have any strong feelings about it one way or the other. The humor is its saving grace.
