I like how this book break out of the structure the last three had. Though I enjoyed the last three books and the plot I don't think I could keep reading this series if it continued to use that same recipe for every book. By that I mean the children finding a new relative to live with, Count Olaf showing up and things going disastrously wrong, the children then having to escape Count Olaf's clutches and find a new place to call home.
This book breaks out of that in a way that I found interesting and enjoyable. I again loved the writing style, the way the story was portrayed, the plot and the characters. I'm not sure if these books were made with just children in mind due to some of the things we have read, it seems there are elements made for us older readers also.

A mill is certainly no place for children, even highly intelligent children.

Stale se rikam, jestli to uz nebude nuda, kdyz jsou vsechny pribehy z teto serie stejne stavene a vicemene konci stejne, ale i pres to me to vzdy bavi znovu a znovu. Jen mam depresi z toho, ze ty deti nemuzou mit aspon jednou v zivote poradne stesti... :(

this one really pissed me off

I feel like this was a filler book for the series? If that makes sense. But I still enjoyed it and will be reading it again in the future I'm sure.

I feel like things keep getting worst and worst and the story keeps getting less realistic.

Spoiler

Seriously? A baby sword fighting with that doctor?? Stupid.

Someone get these children therapists. Multiple people they gave been in contact with have died. They have witnessed gruesome deaths of two of them. The only adult in their life to ever listen to them (after the incident with their parents) was almost murdered by one of them. This is so much trauma.

These books are GOOD. They are; I love them. But wew this is a lot for children. And even though there have been so many unfortunate events, and there's only more to come, they truly have been lucky in so many ways.

We all have jobs that don’t pay us well, use us as manual labor and give us endless stress and strain. For our three orphans, they will endure all that and much worse. After the death of their second guardian, the Baudelaire children’s next home is a damp and uncomfortable lumber mill in a paltry town. They will be made to work and live there by their guardian and boss who is a real jerk, a word which here means “someone who pays and treats his employees horribly all because he had a bad childhood”. If you’ve already noticed by now in their past events, the three will encounter many miserable things like an eye-shaped building, lunch gum, hypnosis, a small library, sensible beige shoes, an inordinate word and a ghastly death. Open this book at your own risk. A (100%/Outstanding)