Do you enjoy sad books or do you enjoy funny books?
Regardless of what type of books you enjoy, you will enjoy ‘A Series Of Unfortunate Events’ (ASOUE) by Lemony Snicket.
Other than having a great storyline and a wild sense of intrigue, it has a writing style that will immediately draw anyone in. It is also incredibly unfortunate and you will regret reading it (hint, hint- you will only understand this if you’ve read it!).
Written by Dane Handler under the pen name Lemony Snicket, award-winning ASOUE follows the lives of the Baudelaire children (sorry orphans) after losing their homes in an unfortunate fire that also killed their parents.
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are “intelligent children and they were charming and resourceful and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky”.
Each equipped with a special set of skills, the Baudelaire orphans face against notorious Count Olaf, while jumping from guardian to guardian. Each guardian is either amazing and fated to die or is awful and lives on to terrorise the Baudelaires.
Some people hated ASOUE for it’s repetitive nature and constant dictionary breaks. As one of the idiots who got invested in the incredible plotline and ended up reading all 13 books and weeping for hours, I do not recommend reading ASOUE because it’s a compelling story and you will end up finishing it and falling into a dark hole of sorrow and regret (book reference!).
(P.S didn’t listen to the warnings and still want to read ASOUE? Before committing and buying all 13 books why don’t you go check them out of the secondary library , where they could be found under fiction Year 7&8)
