Losing their friend Summer to house, who wasn’t strong enough to make it through her nightmare, they don’t know how to begin explaining what has happened and are grieving her loss. are back in the real world but at a terrible cost. But Julian has other motives in mind, because ‘The Game’ is just a ploy to keep Jenny with him forever If she fails, everyone will be trapped in there forever. She must travel through each room of the house to help her friends face their worst nightmares, including her own and make it to the top of the house before dawn. in different rooms of the paper dolls house…which is now very real.īut this game is all for Jenny. Following the game’s instructions, they invoke a rune (as you do) and find themselves inside the game, where the gorgeous white haired stranger from the store, Julian (also known as The Shadow Man) puts Jenny and co. And in the spirit of birthday shenanigans begin to put it together. Jenny’s friends, Dee (athlete), Audrey (sophisticate), Mike (geek), Zach (artist), Summer (hippy) and boyfriend Tom (jock) find ‘The Game’ is actually a paper dolls house.

Taking it home, she has enough time to get ready before Tom and friends arrive for birthday shenanigans. It’s a glossy white box simply called ‘The Game’. She ends up buying a game from him…it is after all a games store. An acid punk rocker complete with snake tattoo. Julian is the epitome of the romantic bad boy: unkempt white hair and intense blue eyes like a Bunsen burner flame. Lo! There’s a door! Where did that come from? Jenny dives in and finds herself in a weird games store where she meets the enigmatic Julian. Ending up on the wrong side of town, Jenny realises she’s being followed by two unsavoury looking gents (nineties bad guys wear ripped jeans, dirty flannel and red bandannas). Wanting to celebrate her boyfriend’s (Tom) 17 th birthday in style, she heads out to find something special for their friends to do that evening. She’s dating the handsome, popular high school jock and has friends from different cultural/socio-economic backgrounds (aka perfect high school heroine material). We meet Jenny Thornton: blonde green eyed upper middle class parents. In my opinion – the best book of the three. In each book, Jenny and her friends are pulled into different realms, where they have to play The Forbidden Game at the behest of Julian, who is the youngest Shadow Man and just happens to be in love with Jenny. The Forbidden Game is made up of three volumes: Here’s my review of The Forbidden Game by L.

Before Elena and the Salvatore brothers there was Jenny and her supernatural paramour Julian.

The hunter by lj smith