A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
The suspicious fire that killed the Baudelaire's parents and burned their mansion is only the start of the unfortunate events that will happen on Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire's life. They were then taken in by Count Olaf, a greedy man who did every trick he knows to get his hands on the Baudelaire fortune. As they were sort of passed on from one guardian to another, they discovered secrets that involved their parents, an organization called VFD (including other things that relate to it - in this case, more secrets), met a lot of people who knows them and their parents, got poisoned and a lot more other things while trying to run from Count Olaf until a certain time when they have to rely on the Count's car in order to save their selves.
- I would say that it's one adventurous story and I think it would be better to read it from The Bad Beginning up to The End straight. I know 13 books is a lot for some people but it felt to me like one book is just a chapter in this whole series.
- Don't be frustrated if secrets and questions are continuously fed to you but explanations and answers behind them aren't. That's just how it is in the series. Although I'm not sure if some of the books that accompany the series (The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Biography, etc.) holds the explanations and the answers to them.
- The main books in this series are the following: The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital, The Carnivorous Carnival, The Slippery Slope, The Grim Grotto, The Penultimate Peril, The End.
- The first three books are the basis for the film adaptation Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events starring Jim Carrey, Emily Browning, Liam Aiken, Kara and Shelby Hoffman and Jude Law.
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