Brilliant perfect amazing I want to reread this book 10 times in a row ( )

Book 10 of 13 of the phenomenal series: Series of Unfortunate Events!

Fun fact: If you read my review, you'll see a mention of how I got into these books. This was the book that started it all for me- although I didn't start with this book.

Please Read my review of the series here, as my review applies to every book in the series. https://www.librarything.com/work/1748/reviews/227861550 ( )

how are there three more books?

i know 13 is a spooky number and all, but this is getting ridiculous. they are also the fattest books of the lot. still, the story is progressing nicely, i just wish that every single book wasn't "two steps forward, one step back." i know that the conceit is misery and despair, but ... eh. i kinda just want them over with. ( )

Dear Reader:
Like handshakes, house pets, or raw carrots, many things are preferable when not slippery. Unfortunately, in this miserable volume, I am afraid that Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire run into more than their fair share of slipperiness during their harrowing journey up -and down- a range of strange and distressing mountains.

I've been reading this series as bedtime stories with Milly, although I did have to go back and read a few myself that she had raced through, unable to wait for me to read them to her at the pace of one chapter a night. They are genuinely brilliant books, funny and dark, mysterious and absurd.

We are approaching the end of the series now, and it really is getting quite inexplicable what is going on, there's a whole enormous mystery around VFD, and I'm starting to worry it might not work out in the end. ( )