I'm not so good at genre tagging these things.

On the one hand, the over-arching plot of the series is really starting to develop, which is exciting. I like the way he kind of teases you with little bits of information.

On the other hand, I find myself not quite as excited about the series as I did when I first started. Maybe I should have just read the whole thing straight through. I still love the naming of people/things though.

My other problem is just that I feel like if you were really a good villain you wouldn't use anagrams because they are totally obvious. But then I'm actually not entirely sure what is going on with the anagrams, and Count Olaf isn't that great of a villain, it's just that the adults in this world are idiots. And I think it's important for there to be books where adults are idiots.