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The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 7)

The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 7)

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Finally, a different ending!
Review: The Series of Unfortunate Events, for me, has been a series with serious ups and downs. The first book was good, but two and three seriously meandered and nothing seemed to happen. Four was a little better, and five shook up the status quo quite a bit. Six was different, but kept raising questions without answering them. With this book, book seven, we're still left with more questions than answers, but the status quo is SERIOUSLY shaken up in a way this series really needed, and I'm excited all over again.

The Baudelaire orphans -- Klaus, Sunny and Violet, are shipped off again, not to a relative this time, but to to a village with all-too-familiar initials, full of people that will supposedly work together to raise the children. As is always the case in this series, the adults are all either cruel, stupid or wimps -- the children are forced into servitude while being cared for by the kindly handyman Hector, who is nice enough but who does not have the backbone to stand up for the children (much like Jerome in the previous book).

Throughout the book the children are trying to solve the big mysteries of this series -- what is VFD? What happened to the Quagmire triplets? And what is the mysterious link between the author and the nefarious Count Olaf?

None of these questions are answered definitively, although clues and hints are included for all three -- but what really charges this book up is the ending, which I can honestly say ends (at least in one respect) in a fashion hitherto unseen in this series and which makes you suddenly sit up and take notice. "Hostile Hospital" here I come...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is a GREAT book.
Review: I have read all of the Lemony Snicket series and they are
my favorite. The Vile Village is a book for people for all
ages. If you are looking for a book with suspense and mystery and above all unfortunate events then this book and series
right for you. Even if you don't want a book with sad stuff in it ia still recommend this book to you. All of the unbearable
events that Violet,Sunny,and Klaus go through is a wild and unfortunate ride for you and your family.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: You Think You Have It Bad
Review: This book is about 3 children who go to live in V.F.D. to find their 2 friends that were captured by Count Olaf. These children go to live with Hector the handy man who is trying to build a hot air moble home that never comes down. the 3 children keep on getting couplets (2 lined poems that don't have to rime) and the poems are giving the kids clues on where their friends are.
I think this is the BEST book I have ever read because you never want to put it down. If you like fun, adventure, and a book that you never want to put down... this is the book you are looking for.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Caw, Caw!
Review: Ever heard the expression "It takes a village to raise a child"? Well, this time, Mr. Poe takes the phrase a little TO seriously, a word which here means "sends the poor orphans into VFD, the Village of Fowl Devotees". In this book, you will discover a fake police officer, to many rules, the super deluxe jail cell, the Quagmires in a fountain, and plastic shoes worn by Count Olaf, and ugly hats. LEMONY SNICKET IS AT IT AGAIN!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: All rules cleary state that you have to read this book!!
Review: Is it a rainy day and your looking for something to do? Well here a book you can sink your teeth into! This time Voilt,Klaus,and Sunny Bauldalare pick to live in a town called VFD. They think they will be abile to find out the secart to VFD. But there wrong. VFD stnds for Village of Fowl Devotes. They live with the town Handy man... Hector. I don't want to spoiel the book for you. So theres only one way to find out. And that is for you to read it!

-Ray D

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Bad Beggining
Review: Wow. So you haven't read this book. Well, you don't know what you are missing out on. If you are a real bookworm like moi, you will love this book. The characters are the real life type and the story is nothing out of the blue like boring old Harry Potter. Not like many authors, Lemony Snicket tries to put yo off buying all of his books! A must read if yo are a sensible, normal kid.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: When the series takes a turn
Review: So far, this series is pretty simple. An idiot in any shape or form becomes their guardian, they find a misfit library, and Count Olaf showes up. The rest is history. But this one is a little different. The guardian you can acctually relate to. And the author does a fake out about Count Olaf that puts you on the edge of your seat, or couch, or whatever you happen to be reading the book on. I have one thing to warn you about that may set you back a step from getting this book: It will leave you crying for the next book. But, sadly, most stores only sell 1-7 in this series. So if you plan on getting this book, do yourself a favor and get the next one too. It's called The Hostil Hospital (#8). This book (#7) will pang your sence of justace and your feelings for the three kids like you wouldn't belive. I don't want to give to much away, but Lemony Snicket is having a lot of fun putting mysteries in the story. If the last book seemed not finished, just wait for this one! In the end, the orphans are a lot worse of then they have ever been. So, if your smart, get the next book so you can feel right about this one sooner. Happy (or in this case)Unhappy Reading! By the way, if you think that just cause a kid is reviewing a kids book that this reveiw isn't very accurate, I beg of you to reconsider. I know what I'm talking about.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: the vile village.
Review: I recentally read the vile village. It was an excellent novel that shows how miserable these 3 kid's lives are. The children wan't to move into a town that raises kids called V.F.D because they wanted to know what it meant. they learned that this village was not only filled with crows but with rules. The 3 children recieve couplets from their two friens the quagmire tripelets are hidden. The police think they cought count olaf but really it is just a guy who looks like him and is to be burned at the stake, the next day. Before they could kill him the real count olaf killed him with a knife, disguises himself as dective dupin and blames the whole murder on the baduliars. The people believe him and put the 3 kids in jail to be burned at the stake the next day. They escaped from jail and retrieved the quagmires from a fountain. bein chaced by an angy mob they had to escape on Hector's hot air baloon but the rope snapped as the baduliars climbed up the 2 who made it threw their notebooks down but they were shot with a harpoon gun. Olaf reviled himself and left on a motorcycle as the baduliars had to run out of the village or the would be killed.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Another Unfortunate Event
Review: The Baudelaires landed on another unfortunate event, this time on the Village of Fowl Devotees. There, they meet Hector, who takes care of them. Since there are so many rules at this village, Hector wants to escape. Therefore, he tells the Baudelaires a secret that he is building a machine that will go up in the air and never come back. Also, the Baudelaires encounter some mysteries about the Quagmires and of Count Olaf, who disguised once again. However, they are left behind as murderes and Count Olaf escapes once again.

Ofcourse, I love this book. Like all the Unfortunate series, this book is full of adventures and mysteries. Yet, this book brings tears, for the Baudelaires are tragically left behind. When they come to a happy event, it is ruined in a flash. Why can't there ever be a continuous happy moment for them? Still, I would have to say it is humorous. Thank goodness that all of the Baudelaires are good at something, for if they weren't they would have never survived any of thesse treacherous events.

My favorite part in this book was when the Baudelaires finally discovered the secret about where the Quagmires were hiding. Everyday, the Quagmires sent a poem which gave clues about where Count Olaf had hidden them. Finally, Violet and Klaus discovered the secret and rescued their friends. How clever the author is to think of such an idea! I was shocked that the Quagmires were hiding in a fountain. However, the happy moment ended when only the Quagmires escaped with Hector on th machine.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Virulent villages and villains!
Review: The further misadventures of the Baudelaire children in their attempts to be taken care of and to help others again go far awry. Author Snicket is a master at maintaining consistent characters. The wit here is the drollest and while the kids who are the intended audience love this series, there's much for adults to love too. Few writers since Thackeray have used the intruding authorial voice so effectively. This series, along with the Potters, are taking literary fiction for the 'tween-agers to a whole new, higher level.


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