by Brett Helquist, Lemony Snicket
I personally adore this series. I started reading this series in the second grade and I really think that is a good age range to start reading this series with. Especially for those advanced readers who are moving onto chapter books. The narrator/author exposes the reader to challenging vocabulary. ...
I should forewarn anyone who is about to read this review that it would be better for them if they didn’t. This review contains nothing but misery, despair and… nah, I’m just kidding. I was going to attempt to write a review for each of the thirteen books in this series individually but realised t...
3.5 stars. The whole series. I enjoyed them ans absolutely loved the author's humor and writing but I didn't like how nothing ever was happy...ever and I was slightly disappointed in The End. Loved seeing the children grow up especially dear sweet Sunny.
On the whole, I really enjoyed this series. It started off just seeming very silly, and by the end I felt that the series as a whole was more complex than I expected it to be. I really enjoyed the author's depictions of the three childreen growing up throughout the books. I also loved how he cons...
The unfortunate Events series was great fun for the first few. They are entertaining, fast reads, filled with a dark, sardonic wit and a fairy tale sensibility. I found, though, that after a few they became redundant. It was the same bad guy using disguises and perverting systems designed to protect...