Title: A Bad Beginning
Author:
Lemony Snicket
Series: A
Series of Unfortunate Events #1
Pages: 162
Release Date: May
12th 2003
Format: Paperback
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Synopsis: Dear
Reader, I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is
extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky
children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings
lead lives filled with misery and woe.
My Review:
In the first story in the series we meet the Baudelaire children Violet the
eldest, Clause the middle child and Sunny the youngest.
While they are enjoying a nice day at the beach Mr Poe a
banker arrives and informs the children that there has been a fire at their
family home which has killed their parents and they are now going into foster
care.
The Baudelaire’s go to live with Mr Poe and his family for a
few days while he sorts out for them to go and live with their ‘uncle’ Count
Olaf.
Count Olaf turns out to be a horrible man who makes the
children do a very many chores and the only relief that they get is when they
visit his neighbour Justice Straus.
Count Olaf only wants the children for their inheritance and
he conjures up a plan to marry Violet to get at the money but the children
manage to thwart him and he gets arrested and the children are taken back to
the Poe’s but that is not the end of the story.
I’m enjoying this series and cheering the children each time
they are able to put a slight hitch in Count Olaf’s plans.
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