I am legally obligated to begin every review of my reread of these books with the following sentiment: I LOVE THIS SERIES SO MUCH.It is a legal obligation of my own construction, because I do love these books and cherish them with everything I have in my cold dead heart, but also…Also this wasn’t my FAVORITE of the series. Which really, if you think about it? A book in my favorite series that isn’t necessarily my favorite of the series - still pretty good. Not the end of the world or anything.Ma...

For Beatrice – When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.For their seventh misadventure, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to a creepy village, completely covered with crows, and full of impossible, vile rules against inventing, reading, and biting! How are they ever going to escape yet another, inevitable, encounter with the horrible count Olaf if they can't put their best abilities to use? I enjoyed this adventure so much! I love when the orphans meet actually decent adults, even if t...

Besides the poem notes, I found this novel rather dull. Once again, it’s just a bunch of adults who don’t want to hear anything the Baudelaire's try to tell them and the one person who is nice enough is unwilling to do anything to actually help the children. But with this story comes a change and I’m very excited for that! Also, Tim Curry has now been changing his voice for different characters which I greatly appreciate!

It was nice to dive back into this series after taking a little break from it! This book is definitely one of the stranger ones in the series in my eyes. Something about a village adopting children and the crows mixed together was incredibly creepy! But that doesn't mean I enjoyed this book any less, in fact I think it made me enjoy it more. As the series goes on, the books really become more intricate and mature and I find that's particularly prominent in this one!

The most lackluster, nonsensical and frustrating of the series so far. Regardless, I love the Baudelaires with all my heart and can't wait to devour the next book!

Another great installment of this series. I did predict quite a bit, but that is to be expected of a middle grade book lol. I don't have too much to say about these books after a certain point because my opinion on all of them is pretty universal: I love this series, and I need to read book 8 so I can finish season 2 of the Netflix show!Here is my favorite quote from this book of the series: "'Normally I don't approve of children staying up late,' he said finally, 'unless they are reading a ver...

★ 3.5 Stars ★Everyone else other than the Baudelaire's are so ridiculously dumb. But at least the story is starting to move away from the tiring formula it followed for the first six books. Also, I'm kind of starting to appreciate the humour.

After finishing up The Ersatz Elevator, we couldn’t wait to start this installment with hopes that the Baudelaires would find a way to locate and save their friends the Quagmire triplets. The book begins with the Baudelaires once again in Mr. Poe’s incompetent hands as he attempts to find them a new and safe home. This time, he’s exhausted all options and finds it extremely difficult locating a place for them. The children are informed that they’ll be living at V.F.D, a.k.a. The Village of Fowl

I didn't like this one as much. The kids are sent to a vile village to live. It was filled with weirdos and crows. And of course Count Olaf, I'm beginning to think he has a tracking device on them ! And the mystery of the Quagmire Triplets grows!

”For Beatrice-When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.” This is the eighth book in “A series of unfortunate events”. It’s also got a Netflix show which I certainly prefer to the book. The books at one point may get boring and you’ll start wondering, “I shouldn’t be reading this, it’s for kids!” but the show never makes you feel that way! I literally binge watched the first season and I couldn’t stop! In this book the three Baudelaire orphans children are sent to live in The Vil

The Vile Village is where the whole VFD thing really starts to take off and the original formula of a new guardian followed by Olaaf turning up in a new disguise starts fraying.The village is quite fun, replete with dozens of vile villagers, hundreds of ridiculous rules, and thousands upon thousands of crows.The off-beat humour continues with Sunny's one worders and their elaborate translation, and the extreme stupidity of everyone who isn't a Baudelaire.The penalty for breaking almost any villa...

The Vile Village (Unfortunate Events #7), Lemony SnicketThe Vile Village is the seventh novel in the children's book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (the pen name of American author Daniel Handler), which consists of 13 children's novels that follow the turbulent lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire after their parents' death. The children are placed in the custody of their distant cousin/uncle Count Olaf, who attempts to steal their inheritance. After the Baudela...

Here at the halfway point of the series, the author is finally dropping more hints and clues about what seems to be a rather large conspiracy against the Baudelaire orphans, the Quagmire orphans, and I gather orphans everywhere who have large fortunes to be acquired. The search for the Quagmire triplets in The Ersatz Elevator ended with a literal red herring, but The Vile Village is almost entirely red herring, as the children are sent to become the wards of a village known only by the mysteriou...

“There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.” I don't really have a lot to say about this book. It was ok, there were some cute parts. I like that the book always has some spot-on satire about society and adults especially. This book did push the series along a bit but I'm getting tired of the formula with these books. Orphans go to terrible place, all the adults are horrible human beings, the orph

If I had to draw a line in the sand with the Snicket books between overly formulaic but funny, and genuinely well put together, I'd put it within the first few chapters of The Vile Village.There's a few things absent from this read through, most of them positive. He isn't constantly reiterating the three children's skills in a "this is for Violet, this is for Klaus, this is for Sunny" sort of rhythm. There guardian is slightly more relatable, and altogether decent guy who gets severely skittish

3.2/5 "For sapphires we are held in here.Only you can end our fear." This is definitely my least favorite out of the whole series so far.It was just okay, nothing exciting happens in here.I liked at the beginning the idea of the entire village that adopts the kids and all the absurd rules that were created for the habitants.Then it became pretty boring to be honest. The most exciting part was definitely the "riddles" that were left for the children by their missing friends.It was fun to build

Well, Klaus, Violet, and Sunny find themselves on the hunt to uncover Count Olaf's latest scheme and find themselves in a whole lot of trouble in the village of V.F.D( that's Village of Fowl Devotees if you were curious). As an adult reader, I cannot tell you how much I delight in reading these books. It's hard to hold back laughter during a silent reading period in high school. I really enjoyed the villains( including, of course, Count Olaf in his latest disguise) in this one. It was an interes...

I am actually enjoying reading this series. I think I liked the first 3 books best but this one was fine. I would love to read another type of book or series from this author sometime.

This was bizarre but another fun read! It genuinely had me anxious as times and worried for what was going to happen. I'm enjoying the way the plot is starting to somewhat (very slightly) deviate away from the original formula and new characters, mysteries and objectives are being added. I'm still not entirely sure where this series is heading (although I have my guesses) so I'm still very intrigued!

2.5 stars. Not my favourite by far in the series.