It is Friday the Thirteenth though, that makes me feel like I should be doing more Series of Unfortunate Events blogging. Oh well, we've got another one in November, perhaps I'll have to celebrate that one with something ASoUE-themed...
So, the twelfth, and second from last book in A Series of
Unfortunate Events is called The Penultimate Peril because it’s
the penultimate book, see what they did there?
This one harkens back to the first book with a flame red spine and
a flame decoration on the border. The flame border is blue, but it’s fairly
obvious that it’s a fire pattern. This is added to by the picture on the back
cover which shows a burning building. Before you even start this book you know
that the place is going to go up in flames!
Remember the hat on the beach at the end of The Grim
Grotto? Well the Baudelaires have one each. All three of them are at the
Concierge desk wearing dark glasses and red uniforms. They’re surrounded by all
manner of shady looking figures, both men and women.
One of the women has a large pink hat with a feather in it, at the
end of the feather is an eye. I can’t see any other eyes on the clothes the
other people are wearing though.
I know that this story takes place at the Hotel Denouement which
has a funny system of numbering its rooms. Obviously the Baudelaires go
undercover as hotel staff. I think that there’s a V.F.D. gathering but there’s
no knowing which people are good guys, which are bad and which are like chef’s
salads.
And obviously, there’s a fire at the end.
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