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alexampersand 's review for:
The Slippery Slope
by Lemony Snicket
For the first time in the series, it slows down and almost drags in The Slippery Slope. It's quite impressive that it got to Book 10 before reaching this point, but then I think a lot of that has to do with the length of the other books - being so short, they got straight to the point. The Slippery Slope, however, is more than double the size of The Bad Beginning, and that changes the feel of the pacing. More setting up, more time spent sitting and talking and deliberating. And it is kind of off-putting.
Once it gets going, though, it is still as exciting as the previous installments - maybe more so, as a lot of information is revealed this time, about VFD and the Baudelaire parents, and the schism, and the mysterious sugar bowl.
So, still a very enjoyable book, but perhaps could have benefitted from a lower word count in the first handful of chapters.
Once it gets going, though, it is still as exciting as the previous installments - maybe more so, as a lot of information is revealed this time, about VFD and the Baudelaire parents, and the schism, and the mysterious sugar bowl.
So, still a very enjoyable book, but perhaps could have benefitted from a lower word count in the first handful of chapters.