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By Angelo Ferrarini


A Series of Unfortunate Events tells the story of three really smart children that become orphans and live a really miserable childhood.
In this volume called "The Reptile Room" they stay at Monty's beautiful house after outsmarting count Olaf, right before he swears vengeance.

The story takes place at lousy lane, a disgusting road that smelled like fertilizer and at Monty's house which looked old and creepy on the outside, but was really cozy inside.
The special feature about Monty's house is this room called "the reptile room" that was filled with... reptiles. Reptiles of all kinds, from snakes to turtles and books all about them.
Monty is planing a trip to Peru, but his assistant quit right before it, so he has to hire someone else called Stephano to help him on the trip. As soon as the children see him, they realize that he is just count Olaf in a disguise. The next day Monty gets "bitten" by the Mamba Du Mal, one of the most venomous snakes in the world. Right away the children suspect that count Olaf is to blame for this when they see that the Mamba Du Mal is still in its cage.
From now things go from bad to worse.
Olaf is taking the children to the airport where they are going to catch the flight to Peru, but fortunately they crash into Mr. Poe (the banker that in charge of the orphan's money) on their way.
Now the children must figure out a way to make Mr. Poe believe that "Stephano" is really count Olaf.
Because of the crash they all have to go back to the house. At first Mr. Poe does not believe the children because of Olaf's costume. By the end of the book he believes the children, but count Olaf is able to escape.

I personally liked this book and I would recommend it to anyone that can read a book that doesn't end with 'And they lived happily ever after.'
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