Review: #407
Title: The Austere Academy
Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events - 5th book
Author: Lemony Snicket
Read Before: yes
My Comments: While it starts out and carries on like the previous book, right at the end when you think that it is going to be as predictable, it pulls out an interesting plot element. Sure, it results in a cliffhanger, but in hindsight, it is also the start of the main, overarching book for the rest of the series. While the plan for Count Olaf does not become clear until the end, it is one of his more… clever plans, although still fairly stupid. The plan developed by Violet was much more disappointing as it did not even feel plausible. It is a testament of the author to risk creating so many unlikeable characters, although at least this time, there are two side characters that are more constructive. There weren’t as many ramblings going on, which helped the flow of the story.
Rating: 6/10