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Title: The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 5)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Illustrator: Brett Helquist
Published: New York: HarperCollins, 2000
Rating: 5 of 5
Page Count: 222
Total Page Count: 133,777
Text Number: 392
Read Because: continuing the series, borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Sent this time to a boarding school, the orphaned Baudelaire siblings encounter horrible living conditions, grueling courses, and something truly unexpected: friends. But not even friendship is safe from Count Olaf's continued machinations. The Quagmire siblings are what this series needed. The best of the previous books—their darkly whimsical content and humorously maudlin tone—persists, but the friendship between the Quagmires and Baudelaires introduces variety and contrast, as well as progressing the overarching plot. The Austere Acadamy is a longer and more robust entry into the Series of Unfortunate Events, and it's what I've been waiting for: something which maintains the engaging premise and Snicket's perfected voice without being content with reiteration. It makes me eager for the next book, and I well recommend it.
Review posted here on Amazon.com.
Author: Lemony Snicket
Illustrator: Brett Helquist
Published: New York: HarperCollins, 2000
Rating: 5 of 5
Page Count: 222
Total Page Count: 133,777
Text Number: 392
Read Because: continuing the series, borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Sent this time to a boarding school, the orphaned Baudelaire siblings encounter horrible living conditions, grueling courses, and something truly unexpected: friends. But not even friendship is safe from Count Olaf's continued machinations. The Quagmire siblings are what this series needed. The best of the previous books—their darkly whimsical content and humorously maudlin tone—persists, but the friendship between the Quagmires and Baudelaires introduces variety and contrast, as well as progressing the overarching plot. The Austere Acadamy is a longer and more robust entry into the Series of Unfortunate Events, and it's what I've been waiting for: something which maintains the engaging premise and Snicket's perfected voice without being content with reiteration. It makes me eager for the next book, and I well recommend it.
Review posted here on Amazon.com.
