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The Bad Beginning (Series of Unfortunate Events #1)

?/5

I think I need to read more to figure out my review scale since the genre is so different from my recent reads.

I'd say RTC but I don't think I have much to say in regards to a spoiler free review.

the man following Lemony Snicket in the final minutes is reading a newspaper with a headline about the Daily Punctilio being shut down for false reporting 

Snicket himself meets Beatrice in a brightly lit shop to share root beer floats, implying that his time on the lam may be over and his name cleared

the villains at the Hotel Denouement are implied to have perished in the fire due to their own unwillingness to believe when the Baudelaires told them the truth - removing several generations of treacherous people, including the wicked High Court justices

the poetry Kit and Olaf recite to each other, obviously from their past as lovers, includes lines about how people pass misery on to each other (thus, the world becomes worse over time) and that thus one should not have children… which is undermined by the fact that Kit is in labor

furthermore, it implies that in Kit’s past (while dating but probably not entirely due to Olaf), she saw less hope in the world than as of the final episodes - despite the Schism

breaks in the narrative structure that show the cycle of misfortune is also breaking: the fourteenth chapter in the final episode and the “there’s no happy endings…” ending song being played at the end of the penultimate (wink), not final, episode