The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12) by Lemony Snicket Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12)
Book Review: An unfortunate reunion sets the scene for the extraordinary ending
Summary: 5 Stars
When we first met the three Baudelaire Orphans, they were splashing in tide pools along Briny Beach. That is, before their lives took a turn for the worst. Now, as we meet up with them once again in this twelfth volume, we again see them upon Briny Beach. However, this time things seem as if they are looking up, for they are in the hands of good - Kit Snicket. With the pregnant Kit in tow, the three Baudelaire's are brought to the Denouement Hotel. A place kept in order by the Dewey Decimal System. The Hotel Denouement is the last safe place, and within a few days, each and every volunteer will meet up with one another, where they will celebrate the claiming of the sugar bowl over the hands of evil. However, with Sunny, Klaus, and Violet disguised as concierges, they soon learn - by using their "flaneur" skills - that many of the people lurking around the hallways of the Hotel Denouement are anything but good. In fact, it is while wrapped up in their clever disguises that the three orphans run into various terrible people from their past - from the unescapable Count Olaf, to the treacherous Vice Principal Nero; and the oft-times brainless Justice Strauss, to the carnival freaks known as Kevin, Colette, and Hugo. With a bit more detective work, and a little help from identical triplets Dewey, Frank, and Ernest, the orphans soon realize that while the upcoming gathering of volunteers is supposed to showcase how good triumphs over evil; the hotel is overrun by unkind masterminds who plan on wrecking the celebration. Now it is up to Violet, Klaus, and Sunny to make a very important decision...call off the volunteer gathering, or think up a way to triumph over the evil that has surrounded them ever since the day Mr. Poe informed them of their parents deaths.
After reading the eleven books prior to THE PENULTIMATE PERIL, I had no idea that Snicket would bring back surviving characters from previous installments, and throw them into one very sordid, crazy affair at the Hotel Denouement. However, seeing these vicious faces rear their heads once again was quite a pleasant surprise, and indicates that the thirteenth book will certainly take the Baudelaire's out with a bang. As always, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny brave through their newest assignment, hoping for the best. From waiting hand and foot upon uncaring ex-caregivers, and taking abuse from demanding debutante-esque characters, the orphans manage to keep their heads above water. While a bit more tragic than the previous installments, with deaths and tears to boot, THE PENULTIMATE PERIL still stands out in my mind as possibly one of the best tales about the Baudelaire's yet. And, as with each tale before it, THE PENULTIMATE PERIL illustrates an unfortunate reunion which sets the scene for the extraordinary ending.
Erika Sorocco
Book Review: Adversity at Its Finest
Summary: 4 Stars
Overflowing with thrills and mysteries, a very long journey to treachery, three orphans, a villain and his cohorts; this is what the Penultimate Peril is all bout. This next-to-last book makes some of the mysteries from the previous volumes clear to the series' avid readers.
This 12th book of the 13 volumes talks about the penultimate unfortunate happening in the lives of the Baudelaire siblings. It concentrates on how the noble part of the schism failed the orphans in the time of melancholy and tragedy and vice versa. It shows how the tragic circumstances changed the Baudelaire orphans' to accidental murderers, arsonists, and thieves. This book contains hazardous threats, an accidental murder, revealed mysterious initials, and a harpoon gun.
Lemony Snicket did an awesome job with his series. He has kept his aficionados hanging with questions and doubts which indicate that he is an effective author. He applied strong, deep words, and other phrases or sayings from different countries and relate it specifically to his miserable series, which includes denouement that means end.
Learning unusual words is one of my essentials as a reader. That is why I am fond of book writers who write passionately and share what they know more about. At one point, it inspires me to do the same as an apprentice writer. This volume and the rest of the series instill the love of curiosity in an educating, mind-boggling way.
The Penultimate Peril would be best recommended to readers who are into something different, and who have great interests in woeful stories. It will also help them learn more about English as it did help me. And I wouldn't dare suggest this book to readers who are after joyous endings.
Book Review: Jack V.
Summary: 5 Stars
Do you like unfortunate stories? Well, I do. In A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Penultimate Peril, by Lemony Snicket is a great mystery novel that puts some parts of this puzzle together.
The Baudelaire orphans, Violet, an astonishing inventor for her age, Klaus, a walking library who takes notes exceptionally well and Sunny, a great cook with oddly sharp teeth. After hopping into a mysterious taxi, the driver says she has known the children for a very long time. She is part of the VFD which is trying to save the children from evil. She gives the children hotel uniforms and tells them to spy on their enemies. They are dropped off by the taxi in front of Hotel Denouement where everything is literally upside down. While spying the children notice many familiar faces, one of them their most hated guardian, Count Olaf who is cooking up a plot to get the prized possession of the sugar bowl. Will the Baudelaire's see the Quagmire's again? Whose initials are J.S? Are the orphan's parents alive?
Being a huge fan of Lemony Snicket and this entire series I really enjoyed this book. If you love a good mystery and putting clues together you will like this. Also, you MUST read the first eleven books in this series to understand everything that's going on.
Book Review: The Penultimate Peril
Summary: 5 Stars
Have any of you ever read a book by the author Lemony Snicket?Well if you have you should know that he is an anonymous author,which here means that he chooses to keep his identity private.
The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket was a very good book and contains a lot of adventure.This book is the 12th book in the Series of Unfortunate Events.Lemony Snicket claims that the life of the Baudelaires are so trecherous that he needed to use thirteen books to explain.
The main characters are Violet,Sunny,and Klaus Budelaire.A conflict that these orphans have is that they lost thier parents in a dreadful fire,and were being followed by an evil villian by the name of Count Olaf.Olaf was after the fortune that was has been left behind for the orphans.
The Penultimate Peril takes place in a taxi that was being driven very wildly by a voulunterr.A volunteer is a noble person that was in the same association as their parents.During this story,the orphans did evil deeds to make sure that they were not noticed by any other villians along with Count Olaf.These acts confused the villians into thinking that they were working their schemes along with them.
To not give away this fine story i am going to end my summary.I would recommend this book to anybody who enjoys reading mysterious and adventurous books.I suggest you not read this book if you do not like exciting books where justice is being done to evil villians.I really enjoyed this book and I know that you would also.
Book Review: This Series Stinks
Summary: 1 Stars
Hello People wake up How Many times can the same 3 children escape 1 bad guy?!? this Book was horrid! Boring, Boring, Boring, After the 5th book i was snoring and this tops it all its not even the last one!!!!! After 12 books its still not over, my grandchildren will be reading the100th book if he continues like this! (and between me and you, what kind of a person cant recognize a baby in a conciarge outfit)I dont plan to even bother to read the 13th book, i can see lemony saying the series will continue after the book "The end" if there was a 0 star i would give it!!!