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mckiheather 's review for:

The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket
3.5
dark mysterious sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

In this book of the series, I like how Klaus and Violet find themselves in each other’s roles
when Violet ends up being the researcher and Klaus the inventor when countering Olaf’s plan
. It just veers from the plot formula that’s being used from the previous books, even just slightly, which I like because it can get predictable if the books all follow the exact same formula. Also, having watched the show first, I expected there to be more
VFD characters and illusions throughout the story, like maybe alternate POV chapters as they follow the Baudelaires, and it was a little strange that there wasn’t, so I really like the narrator’s POV chapters and the endings when there are allusions to a person/group in the present looking back and collecting information about  these events from the past concerning the Baudelaires
.

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