Student Rec: A Series of Unfortunate Events

A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Ersatz Elevator

By: Lemony Snicket

Synopsis

The story starts out as just a normal family, but the farther you get into the book you start learning about each of the characters:

• Mr. Poe – he is a very thoughtful and a very kind person because he looks after the Buadelaire orphans.
• Baudelaire orphans – are all happy and they are great sisters and brother because they all stick together and stick up for each other.
• Jerome – he is rich, and he leaves the orphans at home most of the time because of the way that they look and dress.
• Count Olaf – was disguised as an auctioneer and imprisoned the Buadelaire orphans. 

The characters must go to this new place and walk up many stairs and finally they get to the top and go to the penthouse where Esme and Jerome Squalor are the rich people that take care of the orphans. The Squalor’s don’t like the way they dress because their clothes are cheap, and they don’t get the opportunities other kids get because they don’t have many toys and they don’t get to leave the penthouse that often. Jerome Squalor tried to avoid making contact with Esme because he didn’t want to make her madder at the Buadelaire orphans. Then at the end of the book the Buadelaire orphans want to figure out what V.F.D. means so they decide to work together and find out what it means. Gunther is the evil person behind it all and he doesn’t want the orphans to find out his real identity and plans. He is up to no good. The orphans leaned to rely on each other no matter what happened.

Review

            I enjoyed this book because once you start reading the book you don’t want to put the book down but it can be kind of frustrating when you get left on a cliff hanger and you can’t come back to the book for a while. I would recommend this book to a peer because I know some of us like cliff hangers and some of us like books that you can get pulled into and be in someone’s shoes in the book, but you may not like the book because you may feel like you are actually one of those kids in the book even if you’re an adult and you read it you can feel there pain of having to be one of those kids. You can read this book at any time also it would kind of be fun if you got some friends to read the book with you and you guys can be one of the characters in the book and switch off that’s what made the book fun for me to read it. My favorite part of the book was when the orphans all got to the penthouse and met their new parents.

Website      

This is a link to the authors website: https://www.lemonysnicket.com/

Other Books By The Author

• A Series of unfortunate Events #1 The Bad Beginning
• A Series of Unfortunate Events #2 The Reptile Room
• A Series of Unfortunate Events #3 The Wide Window
• A Series of Unfortunate Events #4 The Miserable Mill
• A Series of Unfortunate Events #5 The Austere Academy
• This author also has many other books that are not a part of the series.

This book series has also been made into a Netflix series you can find it on his website on Netflix.