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book_dragon20's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.75
lydslibrary's review against another edition
3.0
Ugh, still just as fun as it was back when I read it as a kid!
kellydienes's review against another edition
4.0
This one makes me cringe. Poor Baudelaires. I'd be like nah man the mill life ain't for me.
theredheadprotagonist's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
charlotteisagoose's review against another edition
3.0
finally determined to finish this series that I loved reading so much as a kid, but never could get ahold of the full series of.
callmesword's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
emilyatoz's review against another edition
2.0
So far, this book is my last favorite of the series. The two good characters, Phil and Charles, are portrayed as incompetent and spineless. They allow themselves to be bossed around and walked over my a terrible boss, who is rotten in his own way. Count Olaf barely appears in this book, and I think that was the point. It forces the reader to focus more on the situation the children are in and to realize that not all guardians make suitable parents or want to take care of children or even know how. Maybe this hit me so hard because I'm the stepparent of a little boy whom I adore, but I hated their guardian in this book more than Olaf. I still enjoy the series, but this one was just didn't sit well with me.
sicaurigus's review against another edition
4.0
And for Count Olaf’s fourth trick, hypnosis!
Klaus, the 12 year old, is almost forced (through brainwashing) to murder a man. There’s also a lot of child labor, but that’s not even Olaf’s fault. Oh, and a guy is almost sliced through with a saw. And a woman IS sliced through with a saw. And the children witness it. Such fun times.
(Also Every time Sunny CHEWED ON WOOD I died a little inside. Just imagine the splinters o.O)
Klaus, the 12 year old, is almost forced (through brainwashing) to murder a man. There’s also a lot of child labor, but that’s not even Olaf’s fault. Oh, and a guy is almost sliced through with a saw. And a woman IS sliced through with a saw. And the children witness it. Such fun times.
(Also Every time Sunny CHEWED ON WOOD I died a little inside. Just imagine the splinters o.O)
geowhaley's review against another edition
3.0
My Recommendation: Read them back-to-back. They’re short enough that you can get through the first three or four pretty quickly. It feels like the story is coming together and going to actually start making sense and will engage me more now.
My Response: I'm starting to appreciate these more. Maybe I'm in a better place mentally, but this batch (The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy and The Ersatz Elevator) weren't quite as draining as the first three (The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room and The Wide Window).
We once again join the Baudelaire orphans as they are about to meet their new guardian and of course it's going to be horrible, that's a given. But what I wasn't expecting was how much this book would sort of set me off. I mean I knew it would because of the other books in the series. Snicket is using these books to talk about things we don't talk about anymore: child marriage, child labor, abandonment and neglect. It's still a lot to take in but looking at it through this lens has really helped me appreciate the books a lot more than I originally did.
Click here to continue reading on my blog The Oddness of Moving Things.
My Response: I'm starting to appreciate these more. Maybe I'm in a better place mentally, but this batch (The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy and The Ersatz Elevator) weren't quite as draining as the first three (The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room and The Wide Window).
We once again join the Baudelaire orphans as they are about to meet their new guardian and of course it's going to be horrible, that's a given. But what I wasn't expecting was how much this book would sort of set me off. I mean I knew it would because of the other books in the series. Snicket is using these books to talk about things we don't talk about anymore: child marriage, child labor, abandonment and neglect. It's still a lot to take in but looking at it through this lens has really helped me appreciate the books a lot more than I originally did.
Click here to continue reading on my blog The Oddness of Moving Things.