I did not care for this one at all, and it almost caused me to end my Series of Unfortunate Events spree, but I did stick it out. Their guardian is a seemingly random person - I don't think it's explained why they qualify in the first place? If they're not a distant distant relative, at this point the Baudelaires could have gone to Justice Strauss or something - so I'll tell myself Sir was a distant distant relative. There wasn't much happening here to distract from the basic formula applied throughout the series. I can't blame a middle grade series for having so much repetition as that's basically a staple for the age group and I am not the intended audience, but it feels easier to look past in the other books where more interesting things are happening.