Rating: 5/5
Violet Baudelaire was the type one could never forget. Her thoughts were so inventive she was like the first person to invent inventions herself.
Klaus Baudelaire was such a one of books about facts he could be an author of facts himself, and when he died he would be a historical author. The kids would read his books and the children would cry, “Look, Mummy! This book’s by Klaus Baudelaire!”
Sunny Baudelaire was a little girl who lived to bite, and when her siblings Violet and Klaus were reading books she’d at least find one about teeth! When she had her visit at Justice Strauss’ house, she picked one of teeth as soon as she could see one.
Count Olaf was a relative of the Baudelaire children and was the terrible man the children’s father and mother had chosen to look after their two daughters and son. But Count Olaf was evil and all he wanted from the Baudelaires was money.
The Baudelaires lived in a huge mansion where they had a library that Klaus was addicted to, plenty of rooms Violet had had her inventing thoughts in and many teething rings for Sunny. But when the Baudelaire children’s parents were killed in a fire, the teething rings had melted and the library and Violet’s inventing rooms were wrecked.
The plan that Olaf was to do to get the Baudelaire fortune was this. He made Violet be his bride in a play. But why? It was because if Violet signed the form and said, “I do,” she would actually be married – play or not.
Justice Strauss was asked to be the judge in the play, because she was actually a judge in real life. As Violet was only fourteen, she couldn’t be married – unless it was to be in front of a judge, which, of course, she was.
Meanwhile, Sunny was dangling from a huge tower in a birdcage, and if anything was to go wrong in the play, Sunny was to be dropped down to her death.
But Violet was clever. She was a right-handed fourteen-year-old. So, she said, “I do,” but filled in her form with her left hand.
If Olaf was married to Violet, he would be in control of her fortune, according to Nuptial Law. but Violet wasn’t married to Olaf, and she wasn’t a countess, as she used her left hand.
The Baudelaire children were to be living with Justice Strauss, but Mr Poe (the children’s father’s friend) read the will and said that the Baudelaire children were to be only looked after by a relative. So, Mr Poe took the children to his house and found out what to do with them in the morning.
As for Olaf, he sped off before he and his troupe would be sent off to jail.
I liked this book so much that after I’d read it (this morning) I looked on my Nook to see if I had the second. Though I didn’t.
I care for the Baudelaires a lot, and felt sorry for them when they heard the dreadful news of their parents being dead. My favourite character would probably be Violet. She was extremely thoughtful and clever, and she paid so much attention to books she knew what she had to do to save Sunny and what to do in the play.