Play Book Tag discussion

The fourth installment of Unfortunate Events tells of the Baudelaire orphans’ stay at the Lucky Smells Lumbermill. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are sent to Paltryville to work in a lumber mill, and they find disaster and misfortune lurking behind every log.

This story was much slower than the previous ones. For the majority of the story, things happen to the children, rather than them trying to outsmart Count Olaf, or uncover his plot, the way they usually do.

I enjoy the way "The Series of Unfortunate Events" offers an assortment of literary conventions, parodying gothic novels, Victorian melodrama, and cautionary tales. I think that's why both children and adults like the series.