I have, in one way or another, been in the midst of rereading this series for several years.

Which is just fine with me. If there’s a way I can somehow read these books forever, hmu.

You may be tempted to say “Well Emma, there is. You could read a page of it every day for the rest of your life, or something like that.”

But I urge you to resist that temptation, because you will sound very very foolish. In fact, I dare you to so much as TRY to read a page of any of these stories and put it down. You can’t. Impossible. THEY’RE TOO FUN.

This is a particularly good installment in this very good series (and ignore the fact that I say that about just about every installment in this series) for reasons including the following:
- everything is starting to come together!!!
- Sunny is becoming a real character, rather than a bundle of sharp teeth and baby-talk jokes
- SECRETS are REVEALED (and the only thing I love more than secrets is the reveal of secrets)
- JOKES are HILARIOUS (this is always true of this series)

Mostly I am very pleasantly surprised, because I don’t remember this being a section of the Baudelaire story I’m especially fond of and here I am, fond.

What a treat.

Bottom line: Will I ever continue this reread?? Who knows! Probably! Three books to go!

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i couldn't encapsulate my love for this series with all the adjectives in a Verbose, Fond Dictionary.

(more of a) review to come / 5 stars, obviously

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yes, i'm confidently continuing this reread i began two years ago and put on pause one year ago. what about it