The Wide Window A Series of Unfortunate Events #3

The Wide Window:
A Series of Unfortunate Events #3

By: Lemony Snicket

Narrated by: the author

Listening length: 3 hours, 4 minutes 

My review: 4 stars out of  5 

Published September 16, 2004 

Read for my March 2023 Reading challenge, prompt 10: 3rd book in a series. 

Dear Reader,

If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted; but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all. If you haven't got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leeches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain, and a doll named Pretty Penny, then this book will probably fill you with despair. I will continue to record these tragic tales, for that is what I do. You, however, should decide for yourself whether you can possibly endure this miserable story.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket

These books are just a quick fun listen. Not that listening to stories about children being hunted down by a money hungry uncle is fun, but just the way that Snicket writes it is just enjoyable to either read or listen to. One thing I really like about this author is that he explains what some of the bigger words mean. This helps the younger readers to expand their vocabularies. Unfortunate events continue to be a series I love reading, both with and without my kids.