![]() ![]() The villains are a bit nastier than Count Olaf. The books are appropriate for middle-grade readers, though I should warn that there is some creepy stuff that happens throughout the series. ![]() But despite an obvious debt to Snicket's work, I think Bosch has really made the paranoid narrator voice his own, and the Secret Series turned out to be quite a different kettle of fish (a phrase which here means "very fun to read"). Both like to tell you what words means, using slightly off-kilter definitions. ![]() Both warn you time and again not to continue reading the books (though, I should point out, for somewhat different reasons). Ok, it's hard not to dwell on the comparisons between Bosch and Snicket - both are intrusive narrators who become prominent characters in the books themselves. It just seemed too familiar: the pseudonymous author who warns you not to read the book, a couple of kids who are up against a mysterious secret society and vast conspiracies. But when the next few books in the series started showing up, with titles like If You're Reading This, It's Too Late and This Book Is Not Good For You, I wondered how similar this series would be to Unfortunate Events. I remember seeing the first book, The Name of This Book Is Secret, in bookstores and being somewhat intrigued. When the first book in the Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch was published in 2007, it was shortly after the final book in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, which I had followed from the beginning. ![]()
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