More like a 2.5, but I feel bad giving it a 2 stars so I'm rounding it up to 3. I know these books are kind of ridiculous, and that's mainly the point of children's books, but this is really ridiculous. I was enjoying this just fine and a couple of things happened that I just couldn't go with.

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Like, Klaus being hypnotised was alright, not my favourite but whatever. But the swordfight I just can't with. Just no.

It was at this point that ten-year-old me said nope and stopped reading the series, which is a massive shame, because the next nine books are probably much better than this, but I'm finally going to continue on with them!