This book wasn't as good as the other novels of this series but I am still a big fan of Lemony Snicket!I thought that this book was quite dull as the other ones kept you on your toes. It was still very interesting but I liked it when they actually would go to a family other than by themselves because I thought that when they were staying with new people it added amusement to the story because every time their guardians had to be the weirdest people you could ever meet and this time they just stayed in a hospital running away from Count Olaf! I am planning on reading number 9 in this series and so on and I hope that those novels will be more like the beginning novels and I'm sure as always be satisfied with the novel no matter what cooky things happen!