If you were interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.
In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.
There has been some noise around a movie, I think this was at the beginning of this year, name in French "Les désastreuses aventures des orphelins Baudelaire". So I've read an article about it and it said it was like Harry Potter, but for a younger public. Since I am quite naive and usually trust something when I read it, I've done a bit of search and I've found that the movie was adapted from books. And since I always say (annoyingly?) that someone should read the book before watching the movie, I've applied my annonying rule to myself. So here I am with volumes 1 to 3 of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket.
First things first, this book really is for kids. It's short, well illustrated and well written, in a simple, nice and modern style.
Reading about the first calamities in the life of the Baudelaire orphans (14 years old Violet, 12 years old Klaus and 1or 2 years old Sunny) was a really pleasant experience; the tone is always light and amusing, although the kids really are unlucky; and there is always an expression or a little surprise hidden in a page. OK, some expressions (some even rather simple) sometimes are very heavily explained: it somewhat gets tiring but I guess this is OK for kids.
My conclusion is that there is nothing absolutely groundbreaking but that the reading is so pleasant that it compells me to read the other volumes.
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