This book is better to read than the first. My favorite part is that the children can actually be happy once in a while. Uncle Monty (or Dr. Montgomery Montgomery) seems like a nice but scatterbrained man. Personally, I would find studying reptiles to be super interesting. But I know Brandon would die. So only one of us would like being in the reptile room.
The way Lemony Snicket writes this book, you find out that Monty dies very soon after it begins. Which is a bummer. BUT, as this is the first time Olaf pops into their lives in a disguise it is a shock. After a while you learn to see the signs. But the children are horrified to find out that Olaf is now Monty's assistant, and don't have a chance to tell him before he is killed. One of my favorite parts of the book is when Sunny releases the Incredibly Deadly Viper (which is a "misnomer", another word I picked up from the books) and pretends like it is about to eat her in order to distract the adults.
One of the biggest paradoxes of the book (I don't know if I'm using that correctly) is that while Mr. Poe is incredibly inept, he also accidentally saves their lives. When he gets into the car accident with Count Olaf and the children, he doesn't even realize that he saved them from being taken to Peru with Olaf to never be found again.
So Book 2 is in many places much less depressing than Book 1, but in other places so so much worse. They had a shot at a normal life with a loving guardian!
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