A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

Starting with the death of their parents in a terrible fire the three Baudelaire children experience ‘a series of unfortunate events’.  Because of their parents' death, they are due an enormous inheritance, which they will receive when Violet comes of age. They are adopted by a distant relative, Count-Olaf, who is determined to steal their inheritance and devises a crafty plan to con them into handing it over. The first scene is set at Briny Beach where they lived with their parents. Later in the story they move to lots of different places…

Main characters:

Violet –She loved inventing stuff.  She was the oldest Baudelaire child and took good care of Klaus and even more care of little Sunny. Violet was my favourite character because she looked after her siblings and she made sensible decisions. She also managed to foil Count-Olafs plan...

Klaus – he loved reading all sorts of books and had a photographic memory which was really useful.

Sunny – loved to bite things she was the youngest Baudelaire and the only other thing she did apart from biting things was ‘speaking Gibberish!’

Count-Olaf – he had an eye tattoo on his ankle and was a bachelor which wasn’t surprising as he was a horrid man who only did bad.

MrPoe – did what he had to but not any extra, he was more interested about his business then the children.

Justice Strauss – she was exceptionally kind to the children an allowed them to use her library whenever they wished.

This book was exciting, unpredictable and left me hanging in suspense. I believe the author set out to write a book that was entertaining and fun, and he definitely achieved this purpose. The main weakness was that the book was too short, but at least the story continues in subsequent books.

Zoe D'Souza, Year 9