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Thursday, February 28, 2008

A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The End

Snicket, Lemony. A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The End. NY: Harper Collins, 2006. 337 pages. (Adventure Series)

The main characters in this book are Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudalair, along with their worst enemy, Count Olaf. This story takes place on an island in the middle of the ocean that is populated by castaways. The main problem in this book is that the main characters, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, get shipwrecked with Count Olaf on an island in the middle of the ocean. After they get shipwrecked, the three Baudalairs have to figure out a way to get rid of Count Olaf and get off the island. At first the Baudalairs try to solve this problem by abandoning Count Olaf on a coastal shelf near the island, but it doesn’t work, so Violet comes up with an idea late at night to escape from the island: wait for the coastal shelf to flood and then sail away on a boat the islanders built for castaways to use when the shelf floods once a year. One interesting thing that happens to the Baudalair orphans in this book is that a friend of the Buadalairs also gets shipwrecked on the island but she is pregnant and unconscious. Another interesting event that occurs is when the Baudalairs get captured by Count Olaf . They quickly escape and sneak away to the far side of the island, but what they find is a secret underground library in the roots of a tree.

I would read any other book by this author because his books are very well written, and once you get into it you never want to stop. Also, I would recommend this book to anyone that likes a good mystery and loves a story about a notorious villain that commits many crimes and seems to always get away with it. I think this book is a really good end to this series of books Lemony Snicket has written. This book sums up any question you could have about this series. If I were the author, I wouldn’t do it any other way. If I had to put this book into one word I think it would be “perfection.”

Reviewed by: CareBear12