In The Bad Beginning, things, well, begin badly for the three Baudelaire orphans. And sadly, events only worsen in The Reptile Room. In the third in Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events, there is still no hope on the horizon for these poor children. Their adventures are exciting and memorable, but, as the author points out, "exciting and memorable like being chased by a werewolf through a field of thorny bushes at midnight with nobody around to help you."

This story begins when the orphans are being escorted by the well-meaning Mr. Poe to yet another distant relative who has agreed to take them in since their parents were killed in a horrible fire. Aunt Josephine, their new guardian, is their second cousin's sister-in-law, and she is afraid of everything. Her house (perched precariously on a cliff above Lake Lachrymose) is freezing because she is afraid of the radiator exploding, she eats cold cucumber soup because she's afraid of the stove, and she doesn't answer the telephone due to potential electrocution dangers. Her greatest joy in life is grammar, however, and when it comes to the proper use of the English language, she is fearless.

The Wide Window

Summary:
The book that I am reading is part of a series. Throughout the books a man named Count Loaf chases 3 children. In the first book the parents die in a fire and they have to go and live with their distant relative. He treats the kids like dogs. He makes them work and he doesn't give them good clothes or a place to sleep. The 3 children are very rich but they can't get the money until the oldest child becomes of age. When the police find out what this man is doing they take the children and let them live with their Uncle Monty. But Count Olaf shows up and kills the uncle. The children go to live with their Aunt Josephine.
Their Aunt Josephine is afraid of everything. She lives on a cliff over a lake. She doesn't know anything about anything about the children. Count Olaf shows up one day and Aunt Josephine asks him to watch the kids one-day and he says yes. He tries to kill Aunt Josephine while he is watching the kids. The kids are the only ones who realize what's going on. Count Olaf takes Aunt Josephine and kills her and the children have to go and live with some one else.

Review:
I didn't like the book. There is a lot of killing and death and hatred. The kids are always on the run and people don't believe them. There is a man who wants to kill them and no one believes them.

Recommendation:
I recommend this book to people who like suspenseful stories and like to read about hatred and death. The book would be good for a teenager because the vocabulary is good and the reading is easy.

The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events), Book3

The book, The Wide Window was good, but wasn't my favorite book! It was about three orphans whose parents were killed by a fire. Mr. Poe takes them to live with their Aunt Josephine. This is the third relative they have lived with so far. They had to move to different places because of a bad man named Count Olaf. He is always after the Baudelair fortune and is really cruel to the orphans. Their Aunt Josephine is scared of everything, except grammer. While they were out shopping with Aunt Josephine, they ran into Captain Sham, who the orphans know is Count Olaf. Aunt Josephine doesn't believe them when they tell her, he is Count Olaf. Captain Sham (Count Olaf) eventually kills Aunt Josephine. Count Olaf gets caught because the orphans are too smart to not be fooled by him. This series if pretty fun to read, if you are looking for suspense. I thought the part when they ate the peppermints was crazy because it was going to give them hives and swollen tongues. But is was very creative how they used that to get away. My favorite character was Klaus, because he was always reading books. Even when he couldn't find anything to read he read one of Aunt Josephine's grammer books, so he could always keep reading.

Grim but Funny, as usual!

Aunt Josephine and leeches join us in the latest and greatest Baudelaire story. When the siblings move in with their "aunt" on Lake Lachrymose, things can get very, well, UNFORTUNATE.
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