The Forbidden Game: The Hunter; The Chase; The Kill
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- ISBN13: 9781416989400
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
To lose the game is to lose your life in bestselling leader L.J. Smith’s THE FORBIDDEN GAME.
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I’ve been reading LJ Smith since I was 11 years ancient (many, many years ago!) and this was permanently one of my favorite trilogies. Exciting, heart-wrenching, and gorgeous, the characters suck you into their world (reasonably factually) and don’t let go until the very end! If you’re a fan of Ms. Smith’s Vampire Diaries or Nightworld series, you will LOVE The Forbidden Game. Remember, though, no vampires in this one.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
The terrible and the neutral:
- Originally published in the 90s, LJ Smith went yet to be and used some slang and details from the time period where more generic terms would have worked and made it feel less dated now. Still, how would she have known that all of these years later they’d be doing reprints of all of her books? So while it feels incorrect now… eh… It worked when she wrote it.
- Yes, they do seem to be on a crazy bender, reprinting all of her books. Now we’re all human. I expect us all to goof, especially me, I’m the queen of typos. But with editors and reprints and the like, it feels like somehow LJ Smith’s books are the ones I read that permanently keep having silly errors even after multiple re-prints and a decade or more of people reading and re-reading them. Yet they never get caught / fixed in new versions? Things like: “But we got her back from him last time, Michael. We’ll get HERE back now.”
- You’ll probably want to keep telling yourself “This is the omnibus version. This is three books, not one.” Otherwise it’ll feel really repetitive as you re-meet some of the characters over and over, their descriptions repeated nearly word for word several times.
The excellent:
- Well that’d be one thing, the most vital thing, the tale itself. Jenny goes in search of a game for her boyfriend’s birthday party. While trying to find the store she’s followed by two shady looking men and stumbles into the the nearest door to escape them. A game store. Not the one she’d been looking for. Still, convenient… a small too convenient. Turns out she’d been led to the store by the boy who runs it, Julian. The game he sold her, it was real. Jenny and her friends become trapped in it. If they win, they get out and that is that. If they lose, Julian gets to keep Jenny. Along the way they’ll all face their worst nightmares.
In predictable LJ Smith fashion the villain is a name we end up rooting for. He’s got to redeem himself. He’s fun! So he’s done some terrible things, he couldn’t help it, really. The excellent guys are so dull. They don’t appreciate the girl! Etc. Usually, you’re not supposed to hope the terrible guy wins and get the girl in the end, but in LJ Smith’s books, you do. So will he? That’d be telling…
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
The book starts off with Jenny wanting a game for her boyfriend tom’s birthday party. So she goes to this shop and this blue eyed boy named Julian pursuades her into getting the game. She gets it but small does she know it’s a real life game when they get sucked into it. There they meet Julian again he is a shadow man who’s in like with Jenny and has been watching over her. Some might consider Julian a “terrible guy” but I establish him very apealing I was drawn to him like Gabriel in Dark visions. Well the book take on a roller coaster when they enter the shadow world. I don’t wan’t to spoil anything but Jenny did grow up from beggining to end I was shocked at her choice. Then I was shocked toward the end. Sometimes L.J smith doesn’t choose the man I want her too and it really leaves me in tears. Like another customer said she cried. I cried too because it was not what I was expecting. But anyone who’s an L.J smith should read this book it is by far one of her best.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Okay, this is the weirdest review I have ever done, so don’t give me a hundred “not helpful votes” please. I am just trying to be honest.
The first part of the book Jenny is looking to buy a game (at a game store) because she is having a group of friends coming over to her house to hang out. At the game store she chooses the most “unusual” game to buy because the “guy” at the game store talks her into buying this particular game. Quick forwards a small – Julian (the guy at the store) is really from the dark world. He has been watching Jenny for years, from a far and is really in like with her. He wants her with him in his world. Jenny’s boyfriend thinks differently. Any hoo…Jenny’s friends start the game not knowing that it is a “forbidden game”. It turns out that the game is magical… and here are the rules – if Julian wins, he gets Jenny – if Jenny and her friends win, they go free. Simple right? – Incorrect – because Julian is in charge of the game.
The characters are all likeable. Julian (the villain), you have a like/despise kind of thing going on. This book takes you thru 3 books. This book is the most unique book I have ever read! Smith did an brilliant job of building this a book so that you are so far drawn in, you will stay up till 4 in the morning to see how it ends.
I reflect it is a possibility that it is one of the best books I have ever read.
** *Possible Spoiler***-
But, to do it all over – I would not have read the book!!! The ending broke my heart, factually. I cried so much at the ending that I was dripping tears on the pages. I have never reacted to a book this fervently. I finished reading it at 4am and cried in bed until 6am. The next morning my spouse questioned me what was incorrect and I just ongoing crying all over again and then I had to clarify to him I was crying over a “fiction book”. He hugged me and questioned me to tell him the tale and then he let me weep some more. (I have the best spouse in the world!!) So……………I know this is a weird review. I wish I had never opened the book because it haunts me.
**Update to Spoiler**
I read this book back in July of 2009 – nearly a year ago when I first wrote my review. I feel differently now. I am so glad I read the book. Since then I have learned sometimes to make a fantastic book, you don’t automatically have to have a perfect “Happily Ever After”. Really – not having a perfect “Happily ever After” is what sometimes makes the most brilliant books!!! So – looking back – I am very glad I did read it!!!!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5