Friday, August 2, 2013

Ersatz Elevator (Series of Unfortunate Events #6)


This series gets more and more thrilling with each book! The action of the Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket keeps the pages turning long after I had planned to take a break for work and sleep. The story starts, as they all have, with the Baudelaire children meeting their new guardian. This time it is a rich couple names Esme and Jerome Squalor. Esme only cares about money and what is in it fashionable. Jerome is actually loving and caring, despite his faults if hating arguing and going with whatever Esme wants. The situation a actually starts out rather favorably, the Squalors happen to live near the Baudelaire's old home, so they are at least in an area with one caring guardian for the time being. 
All that changes when Esme begins working with a new auctioneer, Gunther who is really Olaf in disguise. The children try and tell Jerome but he doesn't want to listen as a using Gunther could potentially lead to an argument. While trying to find out Count Olaf's plan, the children stumble over the kidnapped quagmire triplets who have been caged in a broken elevator shaft. 
Knowing there aren't dead brings hope to the Baudelaire orphans, but they lack the ability to free them at the time of discovery. 
Hoping to save them during transport, Violet, Klaus and Sunny once again go to Esme for help, this time with proof. Unfortunately, Esme has been in league with Count Olaf the entire time. The two met years before, and Esme has been infatuated with him ever since. 
With Esme's help, Olaf is once again able to escape with the quagmires and evade police capture. Jerome, wanting to forget the whole mess tells the children that he will continue to care for them only if they give up trying to rescue the quagmires. Violet tells him no, they won't give up in their friends. So the three once again find themselves alone and without a guardian. 



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