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The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
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September 2024: Sad > [BWF] The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket 3 stars

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message 1: by Karin (last edited Sep 02, 2024 10:33AM) (new) - rated it 3 stars

Karin | 9277 comments NB this is the first time I've ever read this.

The writing is excellent but it's darker than I realized, but at least the children are quite intrepid despite their worry and fear. It's a good thing I didn't encourage my children to read this at the right ages because it would have upset them; like adults, children have different levels of sensitivity to things in books. I suspect I'd have gobbled these up had they been around when I was a child; I was sensitive, but most of this isn't any darker than some fairy tales or some of the classic books I read back then (Charles Dickens has some cruel treatment of children, for example.) Yes, I did cry reading books sometimes.


message 2: by Sue (new) - rated it 4 stars

Sue | 2741 comments Good review Karin - I agree, much darker than I expected!


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