Reviews

The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket

laurenleigh's review against another edition

funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Sometimes you just need to pick back up your middle grade favorites! I am truly obsessed with how Snicket breaks the fourth wall and adds this whole extra fictional self-referential element. It’s like when Nabokov starts Lolita with the narrative framing that this is a “found text.” That doubling creates a fictional world that contains this fictional text, but it also makes the text seem that much more real! And yet Snicket is doing all that in a kid’s book! It’s hard to succinctly talk about, but it makes my heart sing. I want to take a college course on this series.

mandasbookshelf's review

dark funny mysterious sad medium-paced

3.0

courtneyeppen's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

heleng_reads's review against another edition

fast-paced

4.0

calebmatthews's review against another edition

3.0

Good to know these are still devour-able! A fun and easy read. It’s been 20 years. Gotta figure out what happens to these kids.

thesimplereader's review against another edition

3.0

As the fourth book of the series, one would think that the miserable tone would get tiresome and old. They would be wrong. This book was just as charming and interesting as the other three. I loved it!

candizluv4books's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

acrosspages's review against another edition

3.0

Este libro narra la historia de tres niños huérfanos que son enviados con su cuarto tutor a un aserradero donde se encuentran con algunos problemas. La trama se plantea muy parecida a los libros anteriores , empieza cuando los niños son enviados con su nuevo tutor, luego el desarrollo abarca toda la adaptación a su nuevo “hogar”, y algunas curiosidades que van tomando forma. Y termina (no es spoiler) con un final miserable como siempre. Hasta ahora los libros como dije siguen siendo repetitivos solo en el aspecto de que siempre Count Olaf se sale con la suya y comienza todo de nuevo, pero la serie en sí, es original.

Algunas de las cosas que son más originales y me gustaron muchísimo son: primero las definiciones que realiza el autor que son, más que nada, subjetivas a la situación; así también como lo que dice Sunny o las interpretaciones de lo que dice la bebé cuando balbucea para hacerse entender.

El tema se aborda desde el entretenimiento, ya que no apunta a nada histórico o psicológico, si no una simple historia o pequeña aventura entre hermanos.


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mayiv's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious

owly2014's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0