Penultimate Peril (Series of Unfortunate Events #12)

The driver of the taxi Violet, Klaus and Sunny stepped into was no other than Kit Snicket. While the Baudelaires do not know who she is yet, she knows them, and knew their parents well. She tells them that VFD is in need of their services as the last safe place, and they are to go under cover at the Hotel Denouncement. While working there, is seems that every person they have ever encountered since their parents death has been called to the hotel. Some are villains, some former volunteers and members of VFD. Still others have been called to testify against Count Olaf or the Baudelaires, no matter the reason the Baudelaire children realize that for everything they knew, or thought they knew, hundreds more secrets were just under the surface, and some memories of those they loved have been tarnished as secrets reveal they were not perfect. 

So much happens while at the hotel, it would take nearly a whole other novel to explain it, but it all culminates in the burning down of the hotel, and the Baudelaires getting into a boat with Count Olaf in order to stay safe and away from the flames. 

While this review is short, the only other way to have written it would have turned into a ten page report. Trust me, read this series, and this book. It makes you think about your own life and the choices you make under different circumstances, and how others might view them as evil even if you don't.