Literary Postcard

The Slippery Slope
Title of Book

Lemony Snicket
Author of the Book

Caralee Keppler
Student’s Name

8-2
Student’s Team

Dear Mr. L. Snicket,
Hello! My name is Caralee J. Keppler. I have read all of your books starting from The Bad Beginning to The Slippery Slope. I loved your latest though, The Slippery Slope. I found that it started to tie up some of the loose ends in the series but not all of them. I enjoy reading your books even though they are about the “Unfortunate Events” that happen to Violet, Klaus, and Sonny Baudelaire. I commend you on the way you mix mystery, drama, horror, and action into all of your books. I love your writing skills and the way you leave people thinking at the end of your books. I love the way you make your readers want to keep reading more and more. I like how you explain things thoroughly in your books so that everyone reading, whether they are young or old, understand what you are writing. For instance, in Chapter 1, the word facinorous was written. After that word you wrote, “facinorous, which is a fancy word for wicked.” You also use metaphors, similes, foreshadowing, and personification. You describe things in great detail like on pages 103-104. “All night long, the chilly mountain winds blew through the tiny holes inside the top of the cover, making it so cold inside the dish that Sonny’s teeth chattered all night, giving her tiny cuts on her lips and making a loud noise that made it impossible to sleep.” But what I liked most about your writing and this book is the feeling of suspense you give the reader. Throughout the whole book I was waiting and wondering when things were going to happen. I was wondering about when they were going to get Sonny, or is Sonny going to escape from Count Olaf? Even at the very end of the book you left me with two thoughts. How are they going to get to Hotel Denouement and are the 2 Baudelaires ever going to see their friend Quigley again?
I would just like to thank you for writing such wonderful books and I hope you keep writing them. Thanks again.