They aren’t given enough time and it’s all over too quickly. The teenagers must each conquer their worst nightmares and they are all pretty standard nightmares, handled in a standard way, which makes them just regular reads. There were always going to be limits on this because of the age recommendation, but apart from the very first part of the very first game (in other words the first round of The Hunter) there is little to be frightened of in a big dark house, evil Shadow Men or not.
You could probably compare it to paranormal series of the 1990’s but since I’ve only read this one I’ll leave that discussion to those in the know. You can try to compare it to recent releases but that’s pretty difficult to do, regardless of the fact that Smith couldn’t possibly have been inspired by the stories of today. It’s old school dark fantasy, with real horror.
Definitely of importance is that this book was written long before Twilight and thus long before the gushy romance paranormal novels. When I picked up this tome, never having heard of Smith before, I was expecting a darker paranormal than Twilight, and while initially I was disappointed it didn’t last for long. And even if they get through it all, who’s to say that that will be the end? Jenny and her friends have a paper house to create and a game of nightmares to play, one that will literally imprison them in their dreams. But when the guy says he will see her “at nine” he means it. She takes the one he suggests, discovering she’s powerless to resist. It’s a game shop, a creepy place, and the gorgeous but strange teenage owner is selling ancient and niche board games. But “appears” is the word, for on closer inspection the painted door handle is an actual handle, the door a real door, and she sneaks inside. Upon finding herself chased she comes across what appears to be a mural of a shop drawn on the front of a store that has shut down. When Jenny runs out of planning time for her boyfriend Tom’s birthday she rushes around trying to find a board game that would interest her sixteen-year-old friends. Please note that I will be reviewing all three at once and as such will only be providing a bare basic synopsis.
The Forbidden Game is a bind-up of three books that form a trilogy: The Hunter, The Chase, and The Kill. Publisher: Simon Pulse (Simon & Schuster)įirst Published: 1994 (as three separate books) 2010 (as one volume) Seven teenagers battle against evil to free their friend from her abominable fate.
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