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OK. I just started reading The Forbidden Game, and I liked it. The characters are all unique and different, which is important in a novel, and the plot is exciting and entertaining.
I just CANNOT STAND JENNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She is one of the most stupid, selfish, and wimpy characters I have ever read about. And for some reason that is completely out of my perspective, she loves this idiot Tom. Whose nickname for her is Thorny. What the hell.
Tome is even stupider than Jenny, and always tries to pull off this macho man rep. Hey! Tom! If you think Jenny dosen't need you anymore, then why do you keep on stalking her around like some perv, waiting to jump out at any moment to protect her from the great and evil Jullian, who ACTUALLY LOVES HER, unlike you. And I love how Jenny dosen't even question it, that her EX boyfriend is following her around, thinking he can protect her form this great magical being. Yeah, good luck with that one.
Speaking of Jullian, I was rooting him on half the time. And then Jenny won't love him back beacause she's afraid to be unfaithful to her, may I say it again, EX BOYFRIEND! And she claims he's a murderer, but SHE'S the one who killed Summer! If she hadn't just sucked it up any kissed the totally hot and charming Jullian in the first book, she could have let anyone go back home! But nooooooooooo! She didn't want Tom to feel betrayed by one little kiss after a relationship since freaking second grade!!!
So now that I got that out, the overall book was good, but the action didn't happen until halfway through the book, and it wasn't that exciting of game, and there was nothing to really learn about Jullian or the shadow world, which I DO, so hopefully you'll find out in the third book. But you have to read this book to get the last one, so just do it. It was good, and I enjoy L. J. Smith's writing.


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The Chase The Forbidden Game Vol 2 LJ Smith 9780671874520 Books Reviews

In the second book of The Forbidden Game Trilogy, Jenny and her friends are trying to get back to their normal lives after the first game. Everyone has changed after what Julian made them go through, especially Jenny, who finds herself without the usual protection of her boyfriend, Tom. They all believe that Julian is locked away in his Shadow World, but after they are visit by terrible nightmares they realize they can ignore the truth anymore. Julian is out of his game and he was Jenny - again. And this time he is planning another game to get her.

The Chase was a great in the middle book. It wasn't as exciting as the first one, but it got me really fired up for the next one. There wasn't that much action or as many creepy moments as the first book and the game felt kind of forced this time around, everything was happening really fast and I didn't get to enjoy the action as much.

What I did enjoy more in this book were the characters of Jenny and Tom. After finishing the first book, the Hunter, I didn't really like them. The only ones I liked were Julian, the bad guy and Dee, Jenny's best friend who was always chasing after danger. But in this book things changed, I still love Dee and Julian but Jenny grew so much through her experiences and became such a strong and independent person that you can't help but love her. And Tom...oh, Tom, after seeing that he was losing Jenny he just went all out. Throughout the book he tries so much to help her and sees her as an equal, while in the first one he took her for granted. I think I am join Team Tom for the final book.
I reviewed the first book a while ago and my recap for it just went up last month at The Devil’s Elbow. This month I’m recapping THE CHASE and having never read it before, of course it needed to be reviewed here too. Oh such Labyrinth-y goodness.

Granted I was a bit torn with THE CHASE. The pacing was a little all over the place and the first sentence in that blurb is really misleading. Jenny doesn’t have dudes falling all over her now. One guy asked her to the prom who wasn’t Tom. The blurb could have started with the second sentence and have been fine. Anyway, pacing. It lingers on minutiae in this book where it didn’t in the last, giving me drawn out scenes when they were postering (as in handing out posters with Summer’s face on it because everyone thinks she’s just missing) that didn’t really advance the plot at all, or the whole thing with this guy pursuing Jenny, which really wasn’t much of a thing. There’s a fair amount of cigarette lighting in the book and things don’t really start to get rolling until a little more than halfway into the book, which is far. I often felt like telling Smith to get on with it up to that point.

However, I did like the total mindfuck going on up to Game #2. They were just spaced far enough apart in that first half that they didn’t connect too well and too much time passed between them to really maintain interest. Plus Smith likes to drag on with unnecessary physical details and expounding a little too much on what’s going on in people’s heads so that slowed the plot down too. But the mindfucking was good. I wish she spent more time there.

About a third of the way through the book I started having real issues with the type of focus Smith was giving Dee, her Aba, and then a Polynesian woman. It seemed like every POC that popped up in her books were in some way otherworldly and deserving of this . . . other type of description that no one else got. Then I remembered Wing from DE mentioning not liking Smith’s othering of Dee. Not sure what that meant I looked it up. Yup. That’s it. That’s what was really bothering me. It’s almost like Smith’s overcompensating by making all of the POC in her book mystical and gorgeous and unreachable . . . except that just plays into typecasting, doesn’t it? Dee, the angry but beautiful black girl who’s regularly described as having lioness and panther-like qualities, who wants to fight constantly, and who is regularly described as having a savage or barbaric smile (OMG NO). Aba, the mystical black grandma offering pearls of wisdom to help the children along. And the Polynesian women, a cop and there for a second, was described as being model beautiful. It was just so glaring and off-putting.

Meanwhile Michael has some variety of spaniel eyes, Audrey has spiky lashes and bangs, and everyone else kinds of blends in. Smith has a real bad habit of using rather unique descriptors repeatedly. They stand out “nicely.”

Anyway, I’m a big fan of psychological thrillers and horror and THE CHASE fits better into that arena than anything else. I really, really liked the mind games Julian played, wearing the group down before taking them one by one. Truly, it’s perfect. But then we get sort of a repeat ending from book one and I want to say it’s lazy but it also plays into Julian’s character so I’m not sure which way to sway on that one. But I like that Smith went with the brain game with book two. Considering how mentally mangled those kids would be after what they went through, and with losing Summer (I have a feeling she’s not actually dead . . .) their brains would be ripe for poking. And Julian did just that. It’s demented and dark and it made me like the story even more. Jenny is standing more on her own two feet and barreling headfirst into things. Tom is no longer her crutch. Instead she stands on her own and that’s kind of awesome.

I’m looking forward to working my way through book 3 next month. Be sure to check out my recap going up at The Devil’s Elbow on the 23rd!

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I got the book very fast and it was in perfect condition. I bought it for my wife, she had read it years ago and wanted to read it again. We were afraid that no one would have it so we were exited that we could find it here and that the original book was too.
OK. I just started reading The Forbidden Game, and I liked it. The characters are all unique and different, which is important in a novel, and the plot is exciting and entertaining.
I just CANNOT STAND JENNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She is one of the most stupid, selfish, and wimpy characters I have ever read about. And for some reason that is completely out of my perspective, she loves this idiot Tom. Whose nickname for her is Thorny. What the hell.
Tome is even stupider than Jenny, and always tries to pull off this macho man rep. Hey! Tom! If you think Jenny dosen't need you anymore, then why do you keep on stalking her around like some perv, waiting to jump out at any moment to protect her from the great and evil Jullian, who ACTUALLY LOVES HER, unlike you. And I love how Jenny dosen't even question it, that her EX boyfriend is following her around, thinking he can protect her form this great magical being. Yeah, good luck with that one.
Speaking of Jullian, I was rooting him on half the time. And then Jenny won't love him back beacause she's afraid to be unfaithful to her, may I say it again, EX BOYFRIEND! And she claims he's a murderer, but SHE'S the one who killed Summer! If she hadn't just sucked it up any kissed the totally hot and charming Jullian in the first book, she could have let anyone go back home! But nooooooooooo! She didn't want Tom to feel betrayed by one little kiss after a relationship since freaking second grade!!!
So now that I got that out, the overall book was good, but the action didn't happen until halfway through the book, and it wasn't that exciting of game, and there was nothing to really learn about Jullian or the shadow world, which I DO, so hopefully you'll find out in the third book. But you have to read this book to get the last one, so just do it. It was good, and I enjoy L. J. Smith's writing.