It is somewhat of an outlier in the series, both in terms of plot and tone, which is why it ended up near the bottom of the list. In each of these books, ridiculous and comically unfair things happen here, it felt like just unfair things happened. It was lacking the humor and the storyline, and characters were just not as engaging as the other books on this list. The Vile Village-This book just didn’t do it for me. I guess that speaks on how much I could have loved the story without its glaring flaw.13. The story behind that is one that I think could have been great but was effectively ruined by the annoying and constant definitions.Īnd yet, despite giving such a low rating and finding the style of writing quite irritating, I still do want to read the second book in the series. I can see the appeal for certain types of kids but as a kid I wouldn’t have liked it. I mean I was reading books like The Giver and Princess Diaries as a kindergartener because I found reading fun.
I think it was mostly because I knew that even as a child I would have been insulted by the defining every “difficult” word. I didn’t have a difficult time with it because of the awful events happening to children or because Count Olaf was a horrid man. I opted for a kid’s book, The Bad Beginning, thinking that if I enjoyed it I would have several more books in this series to read after days like today.
Instead, they are dark and kind of dreadful, but have 3 resourceful and brave characters at their heart.Īfter a long day I wanted to read but I wanted something light, and entertaining. They aren't full of magical solutions or happy-go-lucky stories. That's one of the reasons so many kids say they like these books. The youngest, Sunny, likes to bite.Īll the books in the series continue in this same vein - bad things happen to the 3 orphans and they barely manage to save themselves. Violet is a resourceful inventor, while Klaus is an intelligent and precocious child. The children are saved - barely - through their own inventiveness and intelligence. In fact, he has quite a dastardly plan in store. The Count does not, to say the very least, have their best interests at heart. The next is a direct result of the untimely death of their parents: they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a distant relative. That's the first bad thing that happens to them.
They aren't actually orphans to begin with. The melodramatic saga of the Baudelaire orphans begins in this book. Well, then, let's rectify, which here means fix or correct, the situation. You've already discovered the Lemony Snicket series "A Series of Unfortunate Events."
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