I'm getting boring with 3* for the last 8 volumes in the series ... this one drifts close to 2*.The book opens with a double whammy of the oft-mentioned bad science combined with the not infrequent impossible-to-visualise scene.The Mortmain Mountains are bizarrely cube-shaped and have the expected vast vertical cliffs... one of which our heroes are hurtling toward in a loose caravan. This then begs the question ... how is there a slope for them to hurtle down? And the broader question about how

The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #10), Lemony SnicketThe Slippery Slope is the tenth novel in the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. It was illustrated by Brett Helquist and released on September 23, 2003. In the novel, Violet and Klaus Baudelaire make their way up the Mortmain Mountains to rescue their sister Sunny from Count Olaf and his troupe. They meet Quigley Quagmire, a character who they thought to be dead, and visit the headquart...

3.75* these kids really can't catch a break, can they?...

My new favourite in the series. 💙10 down, only 3 more to go!

I liked this one more than I thought I would!! Some of these books were starting to be a little redundant and it was getting kind of old :P But I liked this one a lot! We got to meet a certain new character and I was really happy about that person being introduced :D I can't say who because of spoilers lol It's hard to believe though that I only have three more books left in this series and then I am done!

This one was funny and thrilling in parts though it did lag a bit for me and I don't know why. It took me a few days to get through this one. I'm glad we know who that scout really was and we've run into more mysteries. I'm interested to see how the last three books wrap all of this up. Now starting The Grim Grotto! :)- Richard

While this book did lag for me a bit at the beginning, once it got going it was fantastic! There's a lot of exciting reveals and discoveries that really makes this one of the more interesting books of the lot and starts to set up the end of the series. I think my favourite part though would have to be the immense growth we see in Sunny throughout the book. It's where she starts to really become a child rather than a baby. As per usual with this series, I really loved this book and can't wait to

Decent.I like the development in the kids (especially Sunny---love that kid).I'm curious to see how their story will be tied up in the next couple books.

JANUARY 2017 RE-READIt's so hard to choose a favourite Quagmire....Just kidding, no it's not. Quigley is the best, hands down.This was also more incredible than I remembered! So much information on VFD. We get to see more of Count Olaf's undisguised (literally) nastiness. There's the unexpected return of Carmelita Spats. We get to see Sunny be a hero in her own right (there's the surprisingly powerful quote "I'm not a baby"). There's the somewhat redemption of the white-faced women. There's the

The Slippery Slope is the tenth book in A Series of Unfortunate Events by American author, Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler). As we once again join the unlucky Baudelaire orphans, they find themselves separated: Sunny held captive in Count Olaf’s car while Violet and Klaus seem destined to perish in a runaway caravan down a steep hill. Having narrowly escaped a burning hospital and already suffered the loss of their parents, the threat of marriage, slave labour, hypnosis, a terrible boarding s...

I don't know why, but this one has always been my favorite.

UPDATE: 19/Jan/2017Ignore everything I said before, I like this book more now that I've finished the entire series. 26/Dec/2016This series is REALLY dragging out. I'm so close to finishing it and discovering what everything means! BTW me giving a bunch of these books 3 & 2 stars does not me I don't like them.

A bit of an uneventful step-down from the Carnivorous Carnival and not an awful lot happened, and 10 books in, the repetitiveness is really grating. I still enjoy my time reading these books because they're short and I am intrigued, but I'm just waiting for this to be over now haha.

This story well and truly throws out the status quo of the previous novels. It’s refreshing and long overdue. I loved all the information we got about V.F.D. It’s a lot more than I remembered getting. Of course, there are always more questions that could be answered. In my audiobook version, there is a (kinda annoying) song that is scattered throughout the chapters but plays in full at the end which was an interesting decision.

Audiobook. Narrator Tim Curry. Yes, Tim Curry gets 100 stars!!! Woo-hoo! Hurray!!! And....I love his "evil chuckle". Makes my "evil chuckle" come out and play. Lol Mr. Curry's pronunciation of Count Olaf is a tad bit different than my pronunciation. His: O'Laugh. Mine: Ol' Off. His seems to be more appropriate. You can see how the author improved his stories. A Series of Unfortunate Events now seems more like a long continuous adventure. During the first four novels, it felt more like little "Un...

2.5 stars. More complex writing in this one (for a middle grade book) and the author makes contradicting points like describing the mountains as square but also vertically sloping? However I did still enjoy it overall but it just wasn’t as engaging or interesting as some other books in the series.

The books in this series are getting even more exciting as I continue my quest to follow the Baudelaire orphans on their unfortunate adventures. In the tenth installment, Klaus and Violet have to do some creative planning in order to reunite with Sunny who has been kidnapped by Count Olaf and his gang of villains. Some old favorites from past books re-appear and there are some delightful twists that deepen the mystery of V.F.D. and the Snicket file. I cannot believe that I stayed away from the s...

Well-read people are less likely to be evil There was so much plot wise that happened in this book and still things i would like answered but i have a feeling that i will be waiting until book 12 or 13 to get those ones answered. The two oldest children are separated from Sunny for the entire book as Count Olaf takes her from them after the events of book nine in hopes to get the fortune. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it's nonsense. VFD is a massive symbol of thi

I have, in one way or another, been in the midst of rereading this series for several years.Which is just fine with me. If there’s a way I can somehow read these books forever, hmu.You may be tempted to say “Well Emma, there is. You could read a page of it every day for the rest of your life, or something like that.”But I urge you to resist that temptation, because you will sound very very foolish. In fact, I dare you to so much as TRY to read a page of any of these stories and put it down. You

The Slippery Slope, book number ten in A Series of Unfortunate Events, begins right where book nine left off. It’s as terrifying as ever with poor little Sunny Baudelaire now separated from her older siblings and in Count Olaf’s clutches. Not only is Sunny in danger, but Violet and Klaus are in their own horrifying predicament: speeding down the Mortmain Mountains in an uncontrolled caravan. As they descend further and further away from Sunny, they scramble to concoct a plan, and contemplate whe...