GJSHS book reviews

     This book is an interesting new book with a twist for those who have started and continued the Series of Unfortunate Events books. This book continues to tell the tale of the Baudelaire children whose parents died from a raging fire as told in the first book.  The children throughout this wild and “unfortunate” series must live with new guardian after new guardian in a chain of deaths and traitors.  This book ends as a cliffhanger for the last and final book which will come out on October 13, 2006.

In this story, it begins with a mysterious cab ride to a hotel of mystery and suspense for the Baudelaire children.  They enter as concierges.  They do much spying on gruesome characters from their past who unfortunately enter the hotel. Some of these characters come from The Miserable Mill, The Austre Academy, The Slippery Slope and many others. They must get one thing that was mentioned in book 11 and get it fast to find out the mysteries of VFD and the 100’s of mysteries surrounding the miserable lives of these 3 children.  Answers will be divulged as many new secrets begin.  Count Olaf, the villain in each and every book, once again returns to power and escapes the authorities as he does every time.

Jesse C – 7th grade