The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13)

The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13)
by Lemony Snicket

The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13)
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Book Summary Information

Author: Lemony Snicket
Illustrator: Brett Helquist
Illustrator: Michael Kupperman
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-13
ISBN: 0064410161
Number of pages: 368
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: HarperCollins

Book Reviews of The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13)

Book Review: Janiceps (I have two minds about this.)
Summary: 3 Stars

The End, by Lemony Snicket is an interesting book, I'll give it that. This is the final story in A Series Of Unfortunate Events. The book follows the story of three orphan, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. They lost their parents in a fire that destroyed their home in The Bad Beginning, the first book. An evil man named Count Olaf follows them mercilessly, always hatching a plot to steal the fortune that the orphans' parents left behind. The Baudelaires don't get the fortune until the eldest, Violet, becomes an adult. He always gets into the Baudelaires' lives via a terrible disguise that only fools the adults, most of which are not very intelligent. Their current guardian is usually murdered by him in the course of his plan. The books follow this boring pattern until the middle of the series. Then it gets exciting.

The End is the climax of the series, the twelfth book, The Penultimate Peril, is also part of the very long climax. Contrary to expectations, The End is quite a boring book, devoid of one exciting part and a lot of cool twists. It still does feel like it belongs in the series, just maybe not the ending of it. Or maybe it should be. In The End, the Baudelaires go to an island full of people cut off from the horrors of the world. The story consists of Olaf up to his old and highly repetitive shenanigans and the Baudelaires relaxing on the island. But the island is full of secrets. Most of which you don't find out until the last few chapters. The book left me wondering how the longest book in the series could be filled with such little importance. The End takes the word cliffhanger to the extreme. The things you want to find out most are not straight out told to you, so there is no definitive answer to most of your questions. So you might not find out most of the secrets you want answered. It left me with the hunger to find out the secrets that drove me to read the series. The End is a big disappointment. It was entertaining, but not the exciting finish I hoped it to be. Although part of me does feel that it wouldn't be good if everything was spelled out for us.

J.M

Summary of The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13)

Dear Reader,

You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the end of the end of the end, you will arrive at the end of the end of your rope.

This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and even if you braved the previous twelve volumes, you probably can't stand such unpleasantries as a fearsome storm, a suspicious beverage, a herd of wild sheep, an enormous bird cage, and a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents.

It has been my solemn occupation to complete the history of the Baudelaire orphans, and at last I am finished. You likely have some other occupation, so if I were you I would drop this book at once, so the end does not finish you.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket


Picking up from the final pages of the Pentultimate Peril, this farewell installment to the ridiculously (and deservedly!) popular A Series of Unfortunate Events places our protagonists right where we last left them: on a large, wooden boat in the middle of the ocean, trapped with their nemesis Count Olaf, who has armed himself with a helmet-full of deadly Medusoid Mycelium.

The situation quickly and--this being the Baudelaires--predictably deteriorates. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny find themselves tossed in a storm so terrible that our beloved narrator spends four pages describing how he cannot describe it. From this point on, fans of the series' smarty-pants wordplay and acrobatic narrative can rest assured that they're in for more of the same (and how) in this 368-page finale, and Daniel Handler's deadpan Snicket continues to tutor a generation in self-referential humor (including one particularly funny bit regarding three very short men carrying a large, flat piece of wood, painted to look like a living room). Snicket notes, of course, that if you read the entire series, "your only reward will be 170 chapters of misery in your library and countless tears in your eyes."

There's one big question, though, for anyone who's made it through "the thirteenth chapter of the thirteenth volume in this sad history": is the final book a fitting end? That question is probably best-answered by one of The End's most oft-repeated phrases: It depends on how you look at it. Those looking for conclusive resolution to the series' many, many mysteries may be disappointed, although some big questions do get explicit answers. Not surprisingly for a work so deliberately labyrinthine, though, even the absence of an answer can be sort of an answer--and reaction to The End can be something of a Rorschach test for readers. Or, as Lemony Snicket says, "Perhaps you don't know yet what the end really means." --Paul Hughes

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