Quick fun read, but Mr. Poe is starting to become deeply annoying. Not as annoying as the deeply silly Aunt Josephine, but the wonderful Baudelaire orphans have a surfeit of hopeless relatives and Josephine is at least silly in an original way.

I'm still not sorry for what happened to her. Perhaps if she'd dinned into the heads of infant readers the difference between "conscience" and "conscious" I would have given her a pass - for that is the grammatical mistake most likely to send me into conniptions, and it is frighteningly common - but alas. Like the orphans, I did not get what I wanted.