There are letters to Beatrice from Lemony and to Lemony from Beatrice. A phrase, which here means a book that opens to two file folders, holding a double-sided poster with clues and the letters themselves, carefully bound in tape. Thus we come to: “The Beatrice Letters.” Here we have a File Box of information. “The Penultimate Peril,” Book the Twelfth in “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” is dedicated to her thusly: Each of the twelve books has been dedicated to her in some way. Little is known about the elusive author and littler still of his great love: Beatrice. Here which means a confusing situation that may or may not be solved with the help of bloodhounds on a cloudy day. But Lemony Snicket, chronicler of the lives of the Baudelaire Orphans, has also earned himself an air of mystery.
Horrible things happen to these lucky children: Their house burns down, they lose their parents, they get taken in by a nefarious criminal, Count Olaf, who tries to take their massive fortune.Īnd that’s just the beginning of their woes. Why they would amuse themselves with the trivialities and misfortune that befalls the Baudelaire Orphans is beyond me. A phrase which here means a LOT of happy readers who like to devour every word the author writes in hopes of solving a complicated mystery. Lovers of the series have devoured each book and Lemony Snicket, the series’ elusive author, has earned himself quite a following. A confusing phrase which here means: Friday, October 13th, 2006. Followers of “A Series of Unfortunate Events” know that the thirteenth, and last, book of the series, titled “The End”, is out on the thirteenth day of the tenth month on the fifth day of the week. Is there a better quote in all of human existence? “Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.” Plus epistolary almost never works for me. It creates more questions and then doesn’t answer them and these questions are less interesting than those in the original series, and also sadder. This is an A Series of Unfortunate Events book without the Baudelaires, with as many riddles but without any hints to solutions, without any satisfying furthering of the mysteries, and without the sparkly wonderful writing.Įven though this is a really spectacular format and design, and even though this contains my favorite quote of all time (see below), a lot of the writing falls flat.
The answer: Mild suffering and immense disappointment. Very brave of this book to answer the question, What if there was an installment of my favorite series except with all of my favorite stuff taken out?
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