Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket

14 reviews

hedyharper's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Bullying

sophiemartin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

mckiheather's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Bullying, and Child abuse

Minor: Abandonment and Death of parent

prufrockpreptooth's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

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

Nostalgia when you hold on us ❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Child abuse and Bullying

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Death of parent

sadiaa's review against another edition

5.0

Reading the whole series for nostalgic reasons
I'm happy that the Baudelaire children were able to have some happiness with the quagmire triplets. The books follow the same format every time

the Baudelaires are placed with a terrible guardian, Olaf finds them, no one believes that it's Olaf and then Olaf gets away

Mr poe seriously gets on my nerves, dude doesn't believe it everytime

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Bullying, and Kidnapping

lilshelly's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I actually quite liked this one! Refreshing after the Miserable Mill. The Quagmires were lovely characters that I had completely forgotten about, so discovering them again on my adult read through was wonderful. I deeply enjoyed the friendships between the orphaned sibling groups. The plot still has many incompetent adults who never listen to the kids, but the interactions of the Baudelaires and Quagmires made up for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Bullying, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

holiday7's review against another edition

5.0

Really good book. I didn't really like the Quagmires, but the book was great

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

agatha_hopkins's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cultural appropriation, Bullying, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Classism, and Bullying

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

every adult is so incompetent and horrible oh my GOD......

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death of parent, Death, Child death, Grief, Child abuse, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

libbyhb's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

Now this is what I was waiting for!! My reread of this series hasn't been that exciting so far, but I knew that the real good stuff was yet to come. And here it began! I loved the addition of the triplets, and the slight introduction of the larger plot of the series with the VFD. Really excited to keep rereading the rest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, and Kidnapping