Rating: 4/5
If you are looking for a happy, pleasant book, put this one right down and I advise against reading this review, as the three Baudelaire orphans’ lives certainly do not lead to a happy ending, or anything at all happy.
The orphans are taken to the Lucky-Smells Lumber Mill to work there, and when they see a huge, eye-shaped building that resembles evil Count Olaf’s tattoo and Olaf himself, they get very worried. Charles, a nice man, cannot help them, but can only try to persuade people to take them away from the Lumber Mill. Of course, this does not work, and so when Klaus (the middle Baudelaire orphan) breaks his glasses, he has to go to the eye-shaped building. He comes back in a very sleepy way, and thinks he saw Count Olaf…
This book is very good, and I recommend this terrifying series to everyone who loves reading brilliant, but horrifying, books.