The Penultimate Peril

A Series of Unfortunate Events is a little hit or miss with its quirkiness for a while, but by the time you get to number 12 out of 13, you begin to realize that you crossed the line into seriously messed up territory a while back. Real tragedy and a sense of loss I really struggled to come to terms with as a kid; rare to be able to say that about most YA fiction, honestly.