The Baudelaire children get another lovely chance of being adopted by an actual nice person that is also actually interesting!
What luck!
But as we know, luck doesn’t find the Baudelaire children often … or ever. So don’t get your hopes up for a happily ever after.
I am loving working my way through this series. I’m very slowly going through them. The first book freaked me out as it was darker than I expected for a children’s book.
I spent a lot of time in my last review comparing the book to Harry Potter (and as a Harry Potter kid I was maybe more offended than I should have been). For this book, I didn’t about Harry Potter at all.
This book was so different than the previous. It felt like a perfect concise beginning and end. I felt very full circle and satisfied in this story? But also, excited to read the next book in the series.
All the characters were perfect. The kids were the same, lovely and exactly what I enjoyed in the first book. The characters you love, you love. The characters you hate, you hate.
I felt this book was way more ‘appropriate’ for kids compared to the first one and I loved it! Have you read the series? Do things get even better? Would love your thoughts in the comments below.
Amazon Link – The Reptile Room By: Lemony Snicket
Stats: 192 pages – First published August 26, 1999
cmacs paperbacks 
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