"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book." This, the very first line in the entire novel (and series) could not be more serious. Although this book, with the author's commentary, is subtly hilarious, it is nothing but sad. From cover to cover the novel is unhappy. Right away we find out that the three children the story follows have just lost there parents in a terrible fire and are now found homeless and without family. After all seems lost, a very distant relative takes them in. Their happiness is quickly erased after they actually move in with their "uncle" Count Olaf. He is a vile, disgusting, evil character who treats the children awfully and is only after their inheritance. The novel will make you miserable. And just when you think everything is going to get better, hang in there, because it won't. It only gets worse for the poor orphans. It is truly a bad beginning.
It's a wonderful, exciting book although it's incredibly unhappy. I tell everyone to read it, with the warning that they will want to read all of them and there are thirteen.
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