Current JsonReader item is not an object
I have similar issue.
The returned JSON is Array/List but not Object.
Instead, I use JArray.Parse and it works.
jArray = JArray.Parse(content);
I ran into a very similar problem. The reason my JObject.Parse(json) would not work for me was because my Json had a beginning "[" and an ending "]". In order to make it work, I had to remove those two characters. I would inspect your Json and make sure that it starts with a { and ends with a }.
For me, I removed the first and last characters.
jsonResult = jsonResult.TrimStart(new char[] { '[' }).TrimEnd(new char[] { ']' });