Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.com

If you've been following Lemony Snicket's A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, then you've undoubtedly read of Beatrice Baudelaire. Who she is, exactly, is a mystery. And although this book is entitled THE BEATRICE LETTERS, don't think that you'll finally learn who Beatrice is. You won't. In fact, there's not a whole lot you'll learn about anything or anyone having to do with the series.

Don't get me wrong. THE BEATRICE LETTERS is fun. It's gorgeously packaged. It comes with a poster, a dossier of sorts that contains letters to Beatrice and letters from Beatrice. It has ingenious pop-out letters that you can use to attempt to decode a number of anagrams. It has business cards. It has pictures of a metal tool and a paperweight. It has, in fact, all manner of beautifully put together items that tell you nothing.

For the ultimate A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS fan, this is a book you must include in your collection. For the bored fan, this is a book that will provide you with hours of hair-pulling frustration as you attempt to decipher clues that seem to have no answer. For the mid-line fan, this is a book that just looks pretty.

For cleverness, ingenuity, and presentation, THE BEATRICE LETTERS gets 5 Stars. For content, or at least helpful content, the book gets 3 Stars. Overall, a 4 Star read, but one I would recommend most strongly to the biggest Baudelaire devotee. ( )

The Beatrice Letters is a supplemental book (here meaning a book that was written to financially benefit the author) to the Series of Unfortunate Events. Unless you have read the series, preferably all the way to the end, this book will make no sense whatsoever and even if you have read the series it is still a jumble and might just leave you more confused. I won't say more than these are a bunch of letters written from Beatrice Baudelaire to Lemony Snicket and from Lemony Snicket to Beatrice Baudelaire.

Only really worth it to a fan of the series or a completionist. ( )

This book, part of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" was published between books 12 and 13. At that time, fans of the series were very anxious to find out more about this Beatrice, who first kept popping up in the dedications of the various books and by the eleventh book was a full- blown character in the story. The book was very confusing. I did figure out eventually that the letters from Snicket are all to one Beatrice, and the letters to Snicket are from a different Beatrice entirely. Knowing this helped a lot when I finally read "The End."
The color pictures in the book are fascinating, and I had the feeling that I was missing a lot while I was reading it. That's what Lemony Snickett does to you. ( )

Incomprehensible. I'm sure there's a mystery contained in this book that if one had the patience to puzzle it out, it might give some clues to the further story of the Beaudelaires, but I honestly do not have time to figure it out. ( )

Letters to the Baudelaire’s mother and from the Baudelaire’s daughter. ( )