She's attracted to his ferocity and tries to soothe his tantrums by doing as he wishes. Romantic feelings and threatening behavior comingle as Olivia falls for Jack, a man out of her past. In this version, the hero is a girl who's been masquerading as a boy throughout her childhood. Parents need to know that Lorie Langdon's historical romance novel, Olivia Twist, is a takeoff on the Charles Dickens classic about an orphan in 19th-century London. Champagne and wine are consumed at parties.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.
Olivia doses the maid at her uncle's home with laudanum, an opiate, so she'll not be aware when Olivia sneaks out at night. Olivia's first nurse takes swigs from a bottle throughout the day. A gun is fired and held to someone's head.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Olivia knees someone in the nose, cracking it. A murder is described in detail: "Knifing through cloth and flesh made a very distinct noise." Engaged fight scenes with bones cracking, blood spurting. Some graphic violence described intensely. Jack grabs Olivia until his "fingers burn into her flesh." He pushes her, he slams her into a wall, he knocks the wind out of her while dancing roughly with her, he tells her: "Shut your mouth!" He admits: "There was something about her that brought out a fierce side of him, something primitive that made him want to throttle her one minute and protect her the next." Jack thinks of Olivia threateningly: "He wanted to find her and make her hurt as much as he did." Olivia is attracted to the "barely restrained ferocity behind his ice blue eyes." It's mentioned that Olivia's mother was beaten by her father, enough that her mother ran away and died in childbirth, alone.
Violence and sexual arousal are intertwined in a disturbing way.
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