La scivolosa scarpata. Una serie di sfortunati eventi 10

Slippery SADNESS. After leaving Caligari Carnival and Olivia the people pleaser behind, the self-sustaining Baudelaire travel to Mortmain Mountain; the secret location of the last headquarters of VFD; during their climb they meet a blast from the past, Carmelita Spats, the ultimate cakesniffer. The

I have, in one way or another, been in the midst of rereading this series for several years. Which is just fine with me. If there’s a way I can somehow read these books forever, hmu. You may be tempted to say “Well Emma, there is. You could read a page of it every day for the rest of your life, or som Leggi tutto

I'm getting boring with 3* for the last 8 volumes in the series ... this one drifts close to 2*. The book opens with a double whammy of the oft-mentioned bad science combined with the not infrequent impossible-to-visualise scene. The Mortmain Mountains are bizarrely cube-shaped and have the expected v Leggi tutto

3.75* these kids really can't catch a break, can they?...

This story well and truly throws out the status quo of the previous novels. It’s refreshing and long overdue. I loved all the information we got about V.F.D. It’s a lot more than I remembered getting. Of course, there are always more questions that could be answered. In my audiobook version, there i Leggi tutto

سه جلد دیگه و این مجموعه هم تموم میشه🫠

A bit of an uneventful step-down from the Carnivorous Carnival and not an awful lot happened, and 10 books in, the repetitiveness is really grating. I still enjoy my time reading these books because they're short and I am intrigued, but I'm just waiting for this to be over now haha.

همچنان حس می‌کنم دارن دور خودشون می‌چرخن و یه اتفاق بارها به سبک‌های مختلف اتفاق می‌افته... :)) واقعیتش حوصله‌م سر رفته و احتمالا ادامه‌ی جلدها رو سریع‌تر و سرسری بخونم تموم شه... -------------------- یادگاری از کتاب: کمتر پیش میاد یه آدم کتابخون آدم بدجنسی باشه. Leggi tutto