A Bad Beginning

by Lemony Snicket
Category: "Fiction - Chapter Books"
Pages:162
Year of Publication:1999
Date Read:02/08/2002
Notes:The first book of A Series of Unfortunate Events. The books tell the story of the three Baudelaire children whose lives are one misfortune after another. In the first book, their parents die in a fire and the kids are sent to live with mean Uncle Olaf who wants their money. From there, things go downhill.
My Rating: 7

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Review - A Bad Beginning

The three Baudelaire children’s parents die in a fire. They’re sent to live with mean Uncle Olaf who wants their money. He plans to marry Violet (14) against her will, but Klaus (12) reads law books and uncovers his plot. Olaf threatens Sunny (2), but Violet outfoxes him by signing the marriage license with her left hand to annul the marriage. It was a clever premise, and worked for this one book.
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