The Hostile Hospital
by Lemony Snicket
Pages: 255
Pages: 255
Summary: "There are many pleasant things to read about, but this book contains none of them," the back of the book reads, and rightfully so. The Hostile Hospital, by Lemony Snicket, tells another story of the Baudelaire children, and the extremely unfortunate events in their lives. After being accused of murder, the Baudelaires join a rather joyful group of people, the Volunteers Fighting Disease, and accompany the party to Heimlich Hospital, a building that has only been half-finished. Inside, the siblings discover Count Olaf has found them again, but is not wearing a disguise. Instead, he speaks over an intercom, pretending to be "Mattathias," the Head of Human Resources at the hospital. However, even without showing his face, Olaf causes much trouble. With the return of a past "guardian," horrible surgery, anagrams, shocking news concerning a fire, and balloons, this episode in the life of the Baudelaires will prove to be an interesting one. The real question is: will they live to tell the tale?
