The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events #3)

Reader reviewed by Hinge_Pin

The master of disguises and lies is at it again. By the way that wasn't a compliment. Olaf befriends the new orphans guardian. This one is afraid of the doorknobs, stove, and phone. Everything became dangerous the day that her husband died on the Lake, which her house over looks.
The mysteries of this book unravel more and more the deeper you dig. I know of many people who would read it in just one setting. The mastermind behind making these events known has done it again. This is a deep book and has many views of things. Will the children's lives ever get better.

Reader reviewed by Zac

He's done it again! Just as the previous two episodes of the Series of Unfortunate Events, Snicket has added more comic outlooks toward the caretaker of the three orphans. The flaws of these characters increase with each installment, from a snobbish villian, to an odd scientist, to a worrying woman who fears the very stove in the bare kitchen and the phone on the wall.

Reader reviewed by Carter

If you want to read the series you can not avoid this book. Allthough it is one of the darkest of his books it is still good. I would read it to get to number four which gets much better. Read this and continue the wonderful series that follows and you will not be dissapointed in any way, shape, or form! CW

Reader reviewed by x_fashion4eva

I don't think this book was the best but I think it was okay. I liked some of the other books in the series better though. It was kind of disappointing 2 the rest of the others.U should it though if u want 2 read the whole series!

Reader reviewed by Veronika

Well, it is the first book I read from the Unfortunate events serie. I liked it very much, because the story is fresh and funny (not the theme, of course ;) and because I liked the way of writing of Lemony (and of course, because, after that, I started learning how to make knots ;).
To be frank, I chose it because the title in french (Ouragan sur le lac = hurricane on the lake) pleased me :)

A good spendtime !
Veronika

Reader reviewed by Jossy

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window
, is a blast to read . I couldn't stop reading it , it was so good .If you read this book you will stumble into a world of wonder and imagination .It is one of the few series I collect .

Reader reviewed by Flak Monkey

The tragic saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as the well-meaning but oblivious Mr. Poe places the three children in the care of a distant relative, "Aunt" Josephine. Aunt Josephine is caring, intelligent, obsessed with grammar, and polyphobic. Her multitudinous fears make her an inept guardian, and certainly no match for the "kindly" Captain Sham, whom everyone but Aunt Josephine and Mr. Poe will immediately recognize as Count Olaf in disguise. Of course, tragedy ensues.
I felt that this book had dropped a half-notch in quality from the first two books of the series. The pace seemed rushed and the plot sketchy, while Aunt Josephine and Mr. Poe were too thick and gullible to be credible. The scene where a fire is started by concentrating moonlight with telescope lenses is physically impossible, and I would bet that many of the younger readers will know this, or learn it quickly, from experience. The first two books gave me the impression that they flowed right from the author's imagination, whereas this one felt like it was driven by, "Oh, it's time for me to write another book, so I'd better do it."

Now that I have my gripes out of the way, I want to make it clear that I still feel this to be a good story that was fun to read. It just did not quite meet the high standards set by the first two books of the series.

Reader reviewed by Crystal

The baudelaires are sent to live with yet another relative.and if you know count olaf,you'll know that he is always watching and a;ways following closely behind them.

Reader reviewed by Carmen



Time to go, orphans! Mr. Poe the Banker is once again taking the three children to yet another home.
Aunt Joesephine (this may be spelled wrong) is their new gaurdian and is (I find) very ANNOYING!!!!!!!!!
But you will have to judge that yourselfe!
OH! Beware of the Lachromose Leaches!!!

Reader reviewed by Calamander

This book is about the Baudelaire's going to meet their Aunt Josephine who has a phobia about everything. Then Count Olaf diguised as a sailor threatens to ruin everything.... to find out what happens, read this mysterious book to find out!