The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events #7), by Lemony Snicket
published 2001 - read 2004

The crow-themed village just isn't all that fun, and neither is the wacky inventor friend character.  Ehh.  I think I'm starting to get a little sick of Lemony's ad nauseum employment of the same stock clevernesses.  Not bad, but also not really necessary.  Also surprisingly predictable.  The jailbreak sequence was the only really great bit.

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