A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill (Book 4) by Lemony Snicket

[Alina]

Violet, Klaus and Sunny are headed to Paltryville to meet their new guardian. Mr. Poe says he won’t go with them to meet their new guardian as the morning at his bank has already started and he needs to get back to city. With one last look to the train that brought them there, Violet, Klaus and Sunny head over to the city which also or totally looks like it needs a new paint job and new houses and people too. When Violet, Klaus and Sunny go to the new address, they reassured themselves that they should be far away from Count Olaf, I mean who in their right mind who visit Paltryville, right? … Violet, Klaus and Sunny notice a few things about their new home and the town that is totally bazar. First, The sign to Lucky Smells Lumbermill is make of old chewing gum, Second, none of the shops one the one street had any windows, Three, instead of a flag flying though the wind on the flagpole, there was an old shoe, Four, the workers at the mill only got paid in coupons, Five, the worker only had gum for lunch, and Six, no one knew the owners name or saw his face as a cloud of smoke was always covering his face by the pipe he was smoking in. They also noticed a building shaped like the eye that Count Olaf has on his ankle. When the children arrive at the mill, they find a note telling them to go to the dormitories where the rest of the workers of the mill live. They meet Phil, who tells them that no one has knocked on this door in fourteen years. The children then head off the next morning to work, where they have to debark the logs. At lunch, where they were given gum, they head off to meet their new guardian. They meet a man named Charles first, who is their new guardians partner for the company but doesn’t have a say in any matter once the boss has made up his mind. Sir, the boss, tells the orphans that they can live at Lucky Smells Lumbermill until Violet is of age as long as they work for him and don’t cause trouble. But when a revolting foreman named Flacutono, who replaced the old foreman mysteriously…, trips Klaus on purpose and breaks his glasses, Klaus has to go to the mysteriously shaped eye building to fix his glasses, but when he comes back Violet and Sunny noticed that something more is going on as Klaus, when he returns, is no longer like himself and they are afraid that, when they accompany their brother on a second visit, an evil receptionist named Shirley (Count Olaf) and Dr, Orwell are behind his so called accidents at the mill when he is not himself. Will Violet and Sunny be able to fix/save Klaus from the Count or be taken in by Shirley?

I have seen the Netflix series for this show and some of the details are spot on, well most of them. Spoiler Alert! In the Netflix series, this story is the end of season 1 and book five starts the second season, just so you know. Anyway, in the episode, Sir, their new guardian, blames their parents for starting a fire that burned the whole town causing everyone to leave, A shift scene shows the Quagmire triplets mom and dad but I can’t say any more on this topic because Spoiler Alert for the other episodes and books, the entire mill is under the hypnotic trance, When Violet break Klaus out of his trance, all of the workers break out of theirs’s and storm the mill, Charles reveals the truth of how their parents are heroes to help fight the fire, Jacquelyn gives Klaus the broken part of the spyglass back to him after the Count stole it from him, The Quagmires triplets and the Baudelaire’s are sent to boarding school as Lemony, Olaf, Mr. Poe, and the Baudelaires sing “That’s not how the story goes”. These things are never mentioned in the book. First off, Klaus was the only one under the trance and not the whole mill, Second, The rest of the events that I have listed are never explained in the book and are never mentioned so I really don’t know what to say on that subject. I would rate this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Rate: 5 out of 5 stars