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itsmatthew 's review for:
The Austere Academy
by Lemony Snicket
In anticipation of the Netflix series coming in January, I'm going back and re-reading all the the Series of Unfortunate Events books (when I was young, I stopped reading at "The Grim Grotto," and never finished). It's funny, I remember "The Austere Academy" probably the best out of all the books, I remember the conversations I had in elementary school about the book, and I think it was around this book that I got that sense that I'd tapped into something big (this is the book that expands the cast with the Quagmire Triplets, and deepens the plot with the first mention of V.F.D.). As an adult now, I'm surprised by how sharp the writing is. It's really meta, and the plot is a bit formulaic (okay, very formulaic), but the writing is brilliant.