Il penultimo pericolo

Denouement SADNESS. After leaving Gorgonian Grotto and Fiona the mycologist behind, the self-sustaining Baudelaire travel to Hotel Denouement; the last meeting place of the secretive VFD; during their travel they meet Dewey, a sub-sub-librarian and secret caretaker. The orphans then start working a

Do any of you secretly know how to time travel? Have like a weird DIY crystal-/laser-based contraption that gets the ol' hanging-out-with-Cleopatra job done? I promise I won’t tell anyone, I just have one favor to ask. Please go back in time and tell ten-year-old me reading this series for the first Leggi tutto

I'm fairly sure I've never read 12 books in one series before (with the possible exception of Enid Blyton's Famous Five - which I read in random order with gaps, because they're all stand-alones). To be honest, I don't think that even as a child I would have reached #12 in the Series of Unfortunate E Leggi tutto

This is clearly the book Daniel was aching to write. The best, most complex, most complete, most well-constructed and most enlightening installment in the series. This is the book with the denouement of the series, indeed, and the main theme of the novels shines darkly through to the end. Kit's earl Leggi tutto

same formula as all the others, but the plot thickens! favorite snicketism from this volume? “the three adults smiled at the children, and the children smiled back, but of course the baudelaires were not born yesterday, an expression which means “young or innocent enough to believe things certain pe Leggi tutto

Here's the point: The Penultimate Peril continues to tie it all together, and the return on your investment is shockingly huge. Lemony Snicket manages to tease out a few underlying themes, like what to think when good people let you down, and whether doing evil things makes you an evil person. Ther

This is one of (if not) my favourite of the later stories in this series! I can tell by how much of the story I actually remember (I have a really bad memory). I think my opinion of this book is raised by the episodes of the show. I love how they used the twist in this book and kinda played with the Leggi tutto

The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events #12), Lemony Snicket The Penultimate Peril is the twelfth novel in the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny are travelling with pregnant V.F.D. member Kit Snicket Leggi tutto

the concept of being “noble enough” is going to stick with me forever i think