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juushikaTitle: The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 12)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Illustrator: Brett Helquist
Published: New York: HarperCollins, 2009 (2005)
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 350
Total Page Count: 194,270
Text Number: 572
Read Because: continuing the series, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: The Baudelaires go to the Hotel Denouement, the last safe space, there to spy on a gathering of volunteers and villains. For its obsession with denouements, precious little is explained in this book. Old characters reappear, and ongoing themes of moral complexity continue—and while it's interesting to revisit characters with new expectations, and while the siblings's character growth here is especially poignant, this merely reiterates previous books. Meanwhile, there's only one significant revelation and no denouement in sight. As impressed as I've been by the larger narrative in the second half of this series, it's come to feel stretched thin by the 13-book gimmick. I hope the final book is better!
Author: Lemony Snicket
Illustrator: Brett Helquist
Published: New York: HarperCollins, 2009 (2005)
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 350
Total Page Count: 194,270
Text Number: 572
Read Because: continuing the series, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: The Baudelaires go to the Hotel Denouement, the last safe space, there to spy on a gathering of volunteers and villains. For its obsession with denouements, precious little is explained in this book. Old characters reappear, and ongoing themes of moral complexity continue—and while it's interesting to revisit characters with new expectations, and while the siblings's character growth here is especially poignant, this merely reiterates previous books. Meanwhile, there's only one significant revelation and no denouement in sight. As impressed as I've been by the larger narrative in the second half of this series, it's come to feel stretched thin by the 13-book gimmick. I hope the final book is better!
