the bad beginning a series of unfortunate events book 1

I think it was mostly because I knew that even as a child I would have been insulted by the defining every “difficult” word. I didn’t have a difficult time with it because of the awful events happening to children or because Count Olaf was a horrid man. I opted for a kid’s book, The Bad Beginning, thinking that if I enjoyed it I would have several more books in this series to read after days like today. Instead, they are dark and kind of dreadful, but have 3 resourceful and brave characters at their heart.Īfter a long day I wanted to read but I wanted something light, and entertaining. They aren't full of magical solutions or happy-go-lucky stories. That's one of the reasons so many kids say they like these books. The youngest, Sunny, likes to bite.Īll the books in the series continue in this same vein - bad things happen to the 3 orphans and they barely manage to save themselves. Violet is a resourceful inventor, while Klaus is an intelligent and precocious child. The children are saved - barely - through their own inventiveness and intelligence. In fact, he has quite a dastardly plan in store. The Count does not, to say the very least, have their best interests at heart. The next is a direct result of the untimely death of their parents: they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a distant relative. That's the first bad thing that happens to them. They aren't actually orphans to begin with. The melodramatic saga of the Baudelaire orphans begins in this book. Well, then, let's rectify, which here means fix or correct, the situation. You've already discovered the Lemony Snicket series 'A Series of Unfortunate Events.'

The bad beginning a series of unfortunate events book 1