I can't believe they let Count Olaf get away again. Is it that hard to call the police ahead of time? But I still luv this series. I should hav read these books a long time ago

I believe, thus far, this is the worst book of the series. Primarily because I actually believed at one point that things would not get better, not at all, not what so ever, and it terrified me. I hadn't realized how much I had attached myself to the characters or how much I had been drawn into the book. I skipped ahead only to briefly find some sort of "happy" ending because if it wasn't there I probably wouldn't have finished the book. But it was and so I did.
However my heart is still in my throat and the fear is already instilled and I am weary to find out what happens next because as much as I heart these kids and as much as I want to finish this series and as much as I still, somewhere inside of me, believe that in the end end end of everything it will be ok, I don't believe it will be ok. As an adult, I know that things don't always work out the way we hoped or planned and sometimes it seems as if it doesn't work at all, and initially I liked the idea that here was a person writing children's books and explaining to children in a fairly brilliant way how that is the way it goes sometimes. But now 4 books in, I don't want it to end badly. In fact, to an extent, I feel as if I NEED it to NOT END BADLY.
I want there to be a happy ending and after book 1 even 3 I still thought it would happen but now I doubt it, I doubt myself and I don't know if I can continue reading a series where I know the inevitable will break my heart. But I will and I must.

But I will read another book before picking up the next to give myself time to forget how everything was so close to such a tragic and epically tragic, for a kids book, ending. So that by the time I pick up book 5 it just becomes a story again.

Reread May 22nd, 2016.

4/5 I enjoyed this book and am enjoying traversing through this series, which is really so much fun. Each book, as of now has more of the same elements from each other but they are so much fun to read.

A delightful audiobook listen, read by the author.

Loved the switch up here where the children had to think outside the box, and the late entrance of Olaf!