He even compares it to Hades and Persephone. Villainous Crush: Julian towards Jenny.Took a Level in Badass: Jenny mainly but all of the friends to some extent.Stalker with a Crush: Julian acts this way towards Jenny.Satellite Love Interest: Tom is not characterized as much in The Hunter, but gets some Character Development in the other books.Her nightmare is her bedroom taken up to eleven as it ends up covered in garbage, filled with bugs the size of sneakers, cracking apart as an earthquake hits and covered in howling fungus. Love Triangle: Jenny, Julian, and Tom are part of one.Lotus-Eater Machine: What Julian is offering Jenny without quite understanding why it would be frightening and horrible for her to completely give in.The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: Julian originally sells the Forbidden Game out of a shop located in the middle of a mural that disappears as soon as Jenny leaves it.However he manages to help them get back to their world before he ceases to exist. Heroic Sacrifice: Julian is willing to die in order to save Jenny from his fellow Shadow Men so they unmake him.Gilded Cage: Compared to what Julian could be doing the settings for the first two books qualify.Jenny is shocked because they are supposed to be beautiful but Julian states that over time their true natures shine through and their beauty transforms to ugliness.

The Shadow Men when they appear at the end.

He claims it's a silly fear based on a story he read as a child but after the gang nearly turn into plants themselves, they claim that his fear is just as horrid as everyone else's. Thats right, get your game tables ready for LJ Smiths FORBIDDEN GAME.

Body Horror: Michael's nightmare is all about turning into a plant.

Betty and Veronica: Devoted boyfriend Tom is the Betty while the obsessive and dangerous Julian is the Veronica to Jenny's Archie.

Axe-Crazy: Book two opens with the perspective of a boy obsessed with hunting.

It includes headless bodies in the water that attack when Dee wades in, a paper eating lion that bites down on Audrey's hands and the reveal that the souls of those the Shadow Men have captured are imprisoned in the penny arcade games.

Amusement Park of Doom: The nightmare backdrop of the third book, based on the fact it frequently appears in people's nightmares.Lisa has stated on her site that she is going to write a sequel called Forbidden Game: Rematch, after she is done writing Strange Fate and Brionwy's Lullaby.

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