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__The Ersatz Elevator__ By: Mary

To start off I read the book The Erzates Elevator by Lemony Snicket for my book review. I didn’t really like the book, but I didn’t hate it. It was just ok. The author used very hard to understand words and phrases, which would make no sense if he didn’t describe what they meant. He had a way of almost leading you into suspense but then nothing important happens. The author also cut in quite a lot at the beginning of each chapter.

To summarize, the plot was about the Baudelaire orphans going to the next set of guardians that they have. The foster mom is obsessed with objects that are classified as ‘in’. No matter what she has it absolutely MUST be ‘in’. The foster father is more kind and enjoys spending time with the kids. They run into trouble when they find Olaf in another one of his tragic disguises. This time he is an auctioneer. He has some help from Esme, the foster mom who is actually Olaf’s girlfriend. Jerome would go to the ends of the Earth to help the kids get out of this mess but is completely clueless to what’s going on in his surroundings. Olaf also has some assistance from his accomplices. What I enjoyed about the plot was that it made sure it kept your interest by leaving you hanging at the end of every chapter. What I disliked about it was that the author would always cut into it and tell you many events about his life. It didn’t really remind me of any events, past or present, of my life, except for the fact that I’m being taken from my moms to my dads and then my step mom’s houses. It’s always very confusing, but in a way makes me feel more adventurous.

Moreover, the main characters in this book are the Baudelaire orphans, Klaus, Violet, and Sunny. Klaus is a big reader who loves learning about history and just about any event, time, or object he can. He is also very quiet. Violet is an inventor that always ties her hair up, mainly when she’s thinking of an invention. Sunny is the youngest child, she takes pride in biting objects, particularly hard things for that matter. The villain, Count Olaf, is always scheming up a way to steal their ENORMOUS fortune that their parents left behind for them. Klaus is a lot like me because I’m very quiet as well. I can be compared to Violet because I try to make inventions out of whatever’s around me. I’m not similar to Sunny at all. What I enjoyed about the characters is that they all try to get everything to work out for the better. What I wasn’t really fond of about the characters was that they used expressions that I would never be able to figure out.

In other words, I would recommend this book to others because this series is a very popular series. It even has a movie about the first three books. The people I would recommend this to, are people who are fond of a lot of suspense.