Ruben's review
The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12)
by Lemony Snicket
Ruben's review
The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12) by Lemony Snicket
Ruben's review
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recommended for: Everyone who's read the first 11.
Here's the point: The Penultimate Peril continues to tie it all together, and the return on your investment is shockingly huge. Lemony Snicket manages to tease out a few underlying themes, like what to think when good people let you down, and whether doing evil things makes you an evil person. There are incredible images here of reflections, fire and justice. The illustrations are also picture perfect. And even though the series grows dimmer and darker, it still manages to be one of the funniest I've ever read. I don't get it. I also don't understand why this is called a children's series. The lexile level (the reading difficulty score--check out lexile.com) of this book is 1280, which is higher than War and Peace (1200) and Pride and Prejudice (1100). I love these books. And if you're reading this, you to
