Right, yes, let's talk about Series of Unfortunate events. There are 13 books in this serie, in which you enter the turbulent world of Violet, Klaus and Sunny; the Baudelaire orphans. In each of these books they are placed in the custody of relatives the orphans had never really heard of. In the first book, they are in the care of Count Olaf, who is after the Baudelaire fortune. He keeps showing up in the books, trying to get his hands on the fortune.

Now, I've only read four of the books, so I don't know how the others are, but so far I'm not too keen to continue reading. The kids are always placed at some relative, Count Olaf shows up to steal their fortune, no one believes the kids up until the very end when Olaf gets away again with a promise of return. The stories are becoming repetitive, the plots are thin and each and every single one of the adults are written as silly, gullible and generally as not too intelligent characters.

I'm aware this is a series written for kids and maybe I'm just bit too old for the books now. I did enjoy the books and was highly amused by the writing. The explaining of the "big" words actually came in useful at some parts. (And the way Snicket played with the reader and kept the story light felt like a breath of fresh air!)

This isn't something I think I'll continue reading for now, but maybe when I have kids one day, I'd love to take them into the world of Violet, Klaus and Sunny.