While there are hints of characters from the previous series, it is focused primarily on his childhood.

Then there is All the Wrong Questions series, in which Lemony himself plays a role of a young detective, working to solve crimes and mysteries in a small abandoned town. Their parental care is soon displaced by Count Olaf, the main villain who constantly goes after the children for their inheritance in many unexpected and disturbing ways. It is a story of three Baudelaire children, who are unexpectedly told about the death of their parents. The series does indeed have pretty dark and morbid elements, even to the extent that initially made me question its appropriateness for children audience. Of course, this is a clever trick to make readers even more interested and engaged in reading - a reverse psychology. It repeatedly tells the reader not to read on further, for it contains stories of grim and unfortunate events (hence the series title). The first book of the series, titled The Bad Beginning, starts off with a warning about what is about to unfold in the story. I first picked up A Series of Unfortunate Events in middle school and went on to read several other works. Besides A Series of Unfortunate Events, he published All the Wrong Questions series, File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents, Poison for Breakfast, as well as several other religious and holiday pieces. While commonly mistaken, Lemony Snicket isn’t actually the name of the author behind the series, but a pseudonym of Daniel Handler, who has created the Lemony Snicket universe in multiple series and stand-alone stories. Lemony Snicket is best known for A Series of Unfortunate Events.Ī children’s book series that sold more than 65 million copies globally (translated into 41 languages) and was even adapted into a Netflix series under the same title.

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