Sunny is separated from her siblings and Violet and Klaus must climb Mount Fraught to rescue her. In the way, Sunny learns some new recipes and Violet and Klaus meet new and old characters. Carmelita Spats is back, she was the bully in The Austere Academy (Volume #5) as well as Bruce from The Reptile Room (Volume #2) but the most important ones are: Quigley Quagmire! The third Quagmire triplet! (Quagmires were in The Austere Academy, then in Count Olaf's clutches until The Vile Village- Volume #7) The other new characters are the "Man with a beard but no hair" and the "Woman with hair but no beard".
The Man and Woman (for short) make Count Olaf very nervous, but intriguingly they are in disguise. They are doing exactly what Klaus and Violet did to hide themselves in the Carnivorous Carnival. The Man has a high voice and the Woman has a low voice. Even though it is explained that both sides of the Volunteer Schism are employing the same techniques for disguises, I can't shake the feeling they are not as evil as they seem. They are dead set on getting the Sugar Bowl with a secret message inside, and it could be because they are evil or because they are good Volunteers in disguise.
The theme of becoming villainous by fighting villains is explored here when the kids dig a pit to catch Esmé and trade her for Sunny. The kids regret it and invent another plan, but the line in the sand moved slightly.
The most alluring thing from the Lemony Snicket storyline is the letter hidden to his sister, where he writes that he is to meet her at the Hotel Denouement (the last safe place for Volunteers) and it is heavily implied by way of a recipe that the Baudelaire's mom is Lemony Snicket's sister and that she is alive! Here's hoping that it is true!
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