Reviews - The Ersatz Elevator

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The Ersatz Elevator

Lemony Snicket

3.96 AVERAGE

logikitty's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

len_magoi's review against another edition

5.0

love this series fr

gardenreader's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

shailydc's review against another edition

3.0

Nothing progressed in this book.

belladonnawitch's review against another edition

0.75

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

the_gandy_man's review against another edition

3.75

This book is the best in the series so far, which is great after 3-5 being roughly equally good. We finally have some overarching stuff. What's the VFD business? What's up with this conspiracy? We get some developments but it's all largely still a mystery. We have goals now! More immediate ones like rescue the Quagmires and more long term ones like the aforementioned mysteries. The series is really hitting its stride.

I like all the stuff happening in this book a lot. This fucked up society that lives by what's in and out is great. The titular elevator is great. The unreasonably massive apartment. I like Esme and Jerome. I like the Baudelaires' investigation, piecing it together, the high and low points. It's just really interesting and compelling. I think this is the first time I've come away from one of these books without any real negatives.