
Lemony Snicket narrates throughout, providing commentary, anecdotes, and advice - usually against reading any more of his history of the Baudelaire orphans. The series has a movie and a video game based on said movie.

Everywhere, bizarre and improbable disasters strike the children and everyone around them for no discernible reason. Eventually, the children must strike out on their own to discover their family's dark secret - their parents' connection to a mysterious organization. Count Olaf is following them in a series of Paper Thin Disguises that only the children immediately see through. Throughout the first few books in the series, the children are sent from one caretaker to another, each one more eccentric and troubled than the last.

As their sinister distant relative, Olaf wants the Baudelaire family fortune, which the children will inherit when Violet turns 18. Lemony SnicketA series of Black Comedy-filled children's books by Daniel Handler, under the Pen Name "Lemony Snicket."Īfter their parents die in a fire at the family mansion, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire remain in the care of Count Olaf.
