Un breve respiro de aburrimiento tiene lugar hasta que el Mattathias, un director de recursos humanos, aparece en el hospital y, lo adivinaste, la calamidad golpea otra vez. Los huérfanos luego empiezan a trabajar en la Librería de los Registros, y traban amistad con Hal, un casi ciego archivista que ama las ciruelas. ĭespués de dejar la aldea VFD y a los Quagmire y Hector atrás, escapando de la policía, los autosuficientes Baudelaire viajan al Hospital Heimlich donde conocen a Babs, un omnipresente sistema intercomunicado de voz que le gusta silenciar a la gente. all good but cutting off Violet's head with a craniectomy? Not cool Lemony, NOT cool :p PERSONAL NOTE: Also, I'm perfectly ok with orphans getting kidnapped, bullied, imprisoned, doing child labor, thrown off elevator shafts, trying to be killed, getting torched at the stakes. I’m gonna pretend this book never happened. The new word definitions this time fell flat and the humor was amusing at best. Also for the first time in the series I found myself skimming, not once but twice during the alphabetical aisle tour and the patient list anagram puzzle. The self-sustaining Baudelaire idea is good, but the absence of a guardian, lovely or hateful, certainly takes something important away. Well this one really sucked! The singing volunteers UGH, I hate musicals. The Baudelaire murderers still strong accomplices as ever, covering their backs and trying desperately to clear their names of all false charges. Also HATED Stiletto Shoes, a totally qualified nurse that enjoys stabbing things with her fancy shoes, unlike the unfashionable Esme of the sixth, or the lawful Luciana of the seventh (This can’t be happening to me!!). Dupin of the seventh (This IS getting ridiculous). Totally HATED Mattathias, a ruthless HR manager that *replaced* poor Babs, unlike the despicable Count Olaf of the first book, or the terrifying Stephano of the second, or the mischievous Captain Sham of the third, or the feminine Shirley of the fourth, or the cakesniffer Genghis of the fifth, or the businesslike Gunther of the sixth, or the uncool Det. The secret keeps unraveling! VFD doesn’t mean Very Fancy Doilies, and it actually doesn’t mean Village of Fowl Devotees either, what it really means is Volunteers Fighting Disease! Unbelievable! LIKED Hal a bit, although there isn’t really much to like since he barely has any spotlight.

A brief respite of boringness takes place until Mattathias, a human resources director, appears on the Hospital and, you guessed it, calamity strikes again.

The orphans then start working in the Library of Records, and they befriend Hal, a nearly blind archivist what loves plums. After leaving VFD village and the Quagmires and Hector behind, on the run from the police, the self-sustaining Baudelaire travel to Heimlich Hospital where they meet Babs, an omnipresent voice intercom system that likes to shush people.

The series of unfortunate events book 1