REVIEWbyU - A series of unfortunate events

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Book reviewed: A series of unfortunate events (series)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Rating: Amazingly good

“If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.” This is the opening sentence in the first book of the wonderful book series, "A Series of Unfortunate Events", by Lemony Snicket. This series tells the tale of the three Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus and Sunny, who lead lives filled with misfortune. Their troubles begin when a terrible fire destroys their home, their possessions and their parents. After that, they are sent to a variety of locations to live, ranging from a lumbermill to a high-rise apartment building, and all the time they are pursued by Count Olaf, a despicable villain, who was their first guardian after their parents’ death.

Wherever the children go, Count Olaf finds them, and thinks up a new plan to steal the large fortune that the Baudelaires’ parents left behind. You can see that the storyline itself is quite unfortunate; however, Lemony Snicket provides comic relief with strange, dark humour. The series begins with "The Bad Beginning", and goes on until book the thirteenth, "The End" (thirteen books - I’m sure that wasn’t an accident). There are also two spin-off books (called supplementary materials) : "Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography" and "The Beatrice Letters". All in all, I think "A Series of Unfortunate Events" is a fantastic book series, and I hope you will love it as much as I do.

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