Anonymous types can actually be used as targets for deserialization.

AnonymousPaidCartDtoFromJson.cs

var paidCartJsonString = @"{
  ""_state"": ""paid"",
  ""paidItems"": [
    { 
      ""id"": ""1bcd"",
      ""title"": ""gizmo"" 
    },
    { 
      ""id"" : ""3cdf"",
      ""title"": ""widget"",
      ""description"": ""A very useful item""
    }
  ],
  ""payment"": {
    ""amount"": 123.5,
    ""currency"": ""USD""
  },
  ""timestamp"": ""2020-04-11T10:11:33.514+02:00""
}";

var anonymousPaidCartObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeAnonymousType(paidCartJsonString,
  new
  {
    _state = default(string),
    paidItems = new [] {
    new { 
      id = default(string), 
      title = default(string), 
      description = default(string)
    }
  },
    payment = new
    {
      amount = default(double),
      currency = default(string)
    },
    timestamp = default(string)
  });

var firstItemTitle = anonymousPaidCartObject.paidItems[0].title;
var currency = anonymousPaidCartObject.payment.currency;