If you like the part of Harry Potter When he's living under the stairs of the Dursley household, before the happy bit where he gets accepted to wizard school, then you'll enjoy thesis books. The Baudelaire orphans are nice and smart. But boy are they unlucky. The book opens with the Baudelaire parents dying in a fire and the Orphans having to find a relative to look after them. Although there is a huge family fortune, They Can not get it until Violet, the oldest at 14, turns 18. But this does not stop the dastardly (and there is not really any other word to describe him) Count Olaf, A horrible and distant relative, and his nasty henchmen / women / things from Trying To Get Their Hands (or hooks) on it. And as far as Olaf is concerened, the Baudelaires are expendable, a Word Which here means "not needed after Count Olaf gets his hands on the money". Just one word of warning - when the author says if you like cheerful books or happy endings, stop reading now, he Means it. But if you like scary books with unhappy endings miserable, keep reading! And you'll learn lots of horrible words with depressing or unfortunate meanings as well.
