Next-to-last things are the first thing to be avoided, and so allow me to recommend that you put this next-to-last book down first, and find something else to read next at last, such as the next-to-last book in another chronicle, or a chronicle containing other next-to-last things, so that this next-to-last book does not become the next-to-last book you will read.
Slight damage on spine.
Series of Unfortunate Events Book 12: The Penultimate Peril
By Lemony Snicket
Hardcover