

Lemony Snicket (a pseudonym of author Daniel Handler and a character within the story of A Series of Unfortunate Events himself) keeps the plot addictively interesting throughout its 13-part arc from The Bad Beginning to The End. With each increasingly unpleasant locale the children find themselves in, Count Olaf appears, aided by his odd theater troupe, in a new disguise only the children can see through and a plan threatening their safety.

The Baudelaire children travel from place to place to find a trusted guardian, a habitable home and freedom from the clutches of Count Olaf, a wicked man of no talent and concern for hygiene obsessed with obtaining the enormous fortune the Baudelaires’ parents left behind.
