{"id":23302,"date":"2014-04-05T22:28:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T02:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=23302"},"modified":"2014-04-05T22:28:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T02:28:31","slug":"review-of-who-could-that-be-at-this-hour-by-lemony-snicket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=23302","title":{"rendered":"Review of Who Could That Be at This Hour? by Lemony Snicket"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cWho Could That Be at This Hour?\u201d<\/p>\n

All the Wrong Questions, Book 1<\/em><\/p>\n

by Lemony Snicket
\nread by Liam Aiken<\/p>\n

Hachette Audio, 2012. 4 hours on 4 CDs.<\/p>\n

I began listening to this new series by Lemony Snicket and was captivated. It\u2019s got all of his clever humor without the sad plight of persecuted orphans that turned me off from A Series of Unfortunate Events.<\/em><\/p>\n

We do have a 13-year-old kid \u2013 the young Lemony Snicket \u2013 setting off on his apprenticeship for a mysterious organization. His chaperone takes him to Stained-by-the-Sea, and they are told to return a mysterious statue to its rightful owner. However, Snicket quickly realizes the statue is already in the hands of its rightful owner. His chaperone doesn\u2019t believe him, and they begin a crazy adventure.<\/p>\n

The book is full of delightful, understated details. Stained-by-the-Sea, for example, is no longer by the sea, but there is a sinister forest of seaweed where sea used to be. The reader uses a wonderful matter-of-fact voice, eminently suitable for crime noir.<\/p>\n

I love Lemony Snicket\u2019s trademark, \u201cwhich here means\u2026\u201d, always used in clever and funny ways. And the similes he uses are always bizarre, but apt. I wish I could give examples, but that\u2019s a problem with an audiobook.<\/p>\n

Lemony Snicket freely tells us that he was asking the wrong questions, and tells us what the right question would have been. But he doesn\u2019t tell us what the answer would have been to the right question. That is only revealed with time.<\/p>\n

Some pieces of the mystery are revealed in this book, but it\u2019s definitely the beginning of something bigger. There are reportedly going to be four Wrong Questions. And I have already decided I\u2019m going to be sure to listen to all of them.<\/p>\n

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\nHachetteAudio.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Source: This review is based on a library audiobook from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n

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