A review by morningtide
The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

The Baudelaires are officially fending for themselves. As they are making more active choices for their own well-being, they are forced to come to terms with the reasoning behind those choices. Can good people do bad things and still be good people? Even if those things will save them from the bad decisions of the adults around them? Can they handle the guilt of their choices? I do love a moral dilemma.

The stakes definitely feel as if they just keep getting higher, and the kids quick thinking is still saving them, but it feels like they only just keep squeezing by. Isn't is suspicious how much arson seems to happen, too? Hmmmm.

(My favorite humorous bit in this one was the silly filing system. Paperwork is the most important thing, but also, no one ever read it again please, so you might as well file it under the fifth word in the last sentence.)