The subsequent high stake situations the Baudelaires find themselves in, increasingly dark and puzzling mysteries surrounding the origins of the children’s parents, characters of varying personalities and questionable motivations who either lead to further problems or helpful clues for the children, and frequent lessons in inventive ways to apply advanced vocabulary never fail to entertain, if not hopelessly burden, the reader.
Lemony Snicket (a pseudonym of author Daniel Handler and a character within the story of A Series of Unfortunate Events himself) keeps the plot addictively interesting throughout its 13-part arc from The Bad Beginning to The End.