A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS: the ersatz elevator by Lemony Snicket

Thirty-eighth book of 2020

Reading period: May 08th 2020 – May 13th 2020

Summary

Dear reader,

If you have just picked up this book, then it is not too late to put it back down. Like the previous books in A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, there is nothing to be found in these pages but misery, despair, and discomfort, and you still have time to choose something else to read.

Within the chapters of this story, Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire encounter a darkened staircase, a red herring, some friends in a dire situation, three mysterious initials, a liar with an evil scheme, a secret passageway, and parsley soda.

I have sworn to write down these tales of the Baudelaire orphans so the general public will know each terrible thing that has happened to them, but if you decide to read something else instead, you will save yourself from a heapful of horror and woe.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket

Rating

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Review

The Bad Beginning
★★★★★
The Reptile Room
★★★★★
The Wide Window
★★★★
The Miserable Mill
★★★★★
The Austere Academy
★★★★★

This story is so different from the other as the end of the previous one announced it.

Even if you have the same schema, as Olaf is disguised and try to steal the Baudelaire’s wealth, you have more secrets that need to be resolved (like V.F.D.), and you can’t trust anyone as you don’t know who work with him.

Like as always, there is no adult to protect them, and that fact is frustrating.

I want to continue this series as I am completely into it.

Liz.

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