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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