Story Rating 3.0 out of a possible 10.0

Book review by: Sir Hacks Alot age: 12 Review submitted on 03/03/2002 at 15:27:59 list all 4 reviews for this book

Illustrations Rating 8.0 out of a possible 10.0

Sir Hacks Alot writes the following about The Bad Beginning :

Sometimes days just start out bad and never seem to get better. For the Baudelaire youngsters, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, this just happened to be the case. After living a royal life of luxury, their world just got turned around. When their parents died in a house fire and their past and treasures disappeared. Will the Baudelaire youngsters be able to find a new home? At the beginning of this story, the author Lemony Snicket takes a page or two to say, ?If you like happy books with happy endings put this book down right now.? That right there is enough to make you want to put the book down. Not because of fright, but because it sounds stupid. The first thing I would fix would be his smirky. This book takes place in an English suburb in the late 1800?s. The story is about the Baudelaire children and their hardship?s while trying to find a new home. The book is not humorous unless Lemony Snicket has a dry sense of humor along with his smirky attitude. I gave this book a three out of a possible ten because of the author?s lack of purpose and theme, and because the message is missing. The illustrations were great, but not good enough to make up for the author?s lacking plot .

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