The Hostile Hospital/Lemony Snicket

Okay, so this book really started to give me the creeps, and that's the first time that's happened with this series. This 8th installment of the Baudelaire orphans' trials and tribulations is icky hospital drama and post-traumatic stress thanks to a horrible fire. It also ends on a really bleak and despondent note (yes, yes, I know, they're all rather bleak) but this one was more bleak than cleverly funny, and I get the feeling the rest of the series is going to turn out this way, too. but I'm still loving the series as a whole. 255 pp.