The Vile Village

Once again the Baudelaire children escaped Count Olaf on the last second but lost their friends for it. In this book they are sent in a village where all the inhabitants are supposed to take of them. We soon see the “craziness” of the adults, they don't listen to the Baudelaire and force them to work for the town an enormous amount of time each day. But we quickly have some news of their friends, the Quagmires.
This particular book is a real turn of event for the rest of the series we start to see it of something bigger that just the unfortunate adventures of the orphans. They also take a big decision at the end of the book. The rest of the series promise to be different from what we are used to.