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A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Penultimate Peril - Book 12
By Lemony Snicket
Category: Book

     The main charaters of the book are the three Baudelaire children who are orphans.  Their names are Sunny Baudelaire (girl, youngest).  Sunny is an adventoures baby who loves to bite anything in her way.  There is Klaus Baudelaire (boy, middle child).  Klaus reads alot, and his readings almost always help in every book. And finaly Violet Baudelaire (girl, oldest).  Violet loves to invent things that help in her daily life.   They are orphans because their mother and father died in a dreadful fire at their mansion they once lived in.  They did not even know the fire had happened until a banker, Mr. Pope, found them at Briny Beach.  He told them the horrible news.  Since then, they have lived at many different places.  In each book they live with a differnt person or people.  Some are nice and some are not so nice.  The second person the children were placed with was Count Olaf.   Count Olaf claims to be a relative, but is actually not.  He is just trying to get their inheritance.  Every time they are placed with a person or people, he sabotages it.  In the books that I have read so far, the person or people they are placed with, mostly end up dead or badly hurt.   Count Olaf is into theatre.  In every book Count Olaf and his theatre crew of villainous minions try to capture the Baudelaires in the hope of getting their fortune.  
     This book takes place in the middle 1900s.  The children were placed at a hotel to attend a secret meeting of noble people that wanted to get rid of Count Olaf once and for all.  The meeting was suppose to happen in a couple of days.  The huge thousand floor hotel they were place in was full of many interesting people and things.  In the hotel it is almost impossible to find anything because every level is based on different subjects (like a library).  Unfortunetly, there is no catalog telling you where to go.  The only way to find out where you are going is to look at each number on each door of the hotel.  Then you try to figure out what the number's subject is according to the Dewy Decimal System (like they use in libraries on the spine of a book).  For example '190.2 dew' would be the number that would be on the spine of a book in the library.  In the hotel, the '190.2 dew' would be on the door.
     There are many important events in this story.  Some are sad, some are good, and some are just disappointing!  For instance, while the children were working hard in the hotel as concierges or hotel assistants, they had a manager named Frank and a manager named Earnest.  They were not sure which one was named which.  Frank was a trustworthy manager, and Earnest was a villainous manager.  Each time the Baudalaire children went off on an errand to assist someone in the hotel Earnest would trick them into doing something bad.  Inorder for them to know who to assist, there were bells on the concierges desk with each room number printed on them.  Each time a person staying at the hotel wanted them to do something, they would ring the bell in their room.  The bell with their room number at the desk would ring, telling the children where to go.   Every time they were done doing an errand for a guest, Frank or Earnest (remember, they are not sure who is who) would ask them to do a task.  Each time the Baudalaires would be asked to do a task, they hoped it was Frank and would just do it.  But in the end, it turned out it was Earnest who had asked them to do the tasks.  They were all for a sinister plot to get rid of the Baudalaires. 
     There are a couple good events in the story like when the childeran were acting like flaneurs or spys and were observing the hotel on their errands.  They had met many people who had mentioned to their friends that the Baudalaires were very unique children who they did not like.  They found out later though that some people did not see that way.  They met one man who they over heard at a table saying that the children were lovely, and if he could he would love to take them in.
     In the story there were also is a disappointing part, for instance the time they thought all evil was gone, and they would never see Count Olaf and his villains again.  Right when they thought this though, Count Olaf appeared out of nowhere and closed in on them.  Luckily they got away.
     The problem in this book is the same for all of them.  The Baudelaires are always trying to get new homes to stay in and everytime they find a new house Count Olaf ruins it.  As I said before Count Olaf is mea and vial and will try at any cost to get there fortune.  At the end of this book though they never due fix this problem and actually go with Count Olaf  out to sea to find another adventure another time. 
     If you love interesting books with mysterious, sad, and fantastic addicting parts in them, I would highly recommend this book to you.  Make sure you read all the books in the story.
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