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For this month we're reading The Forbidden Game.

HERE ARE THE LINKS:
Book 1- https://novel12.com/241133/the-forbid...

Book 2- https://novel12.com/241134/the-forbid...

Book 3- https://novel12.com/241135/the-forbid...

Even if you've already read the book, comment your thoughts and opinions now! Mark spoilers please as well.

I picked this book because the relationship between Julian and Jenny is so dark and twisted and the shadow world is so very creepy and mysterious and I think this book is perfect for Halloween.

Just like Kayla said this book is one of those that might call a person's morals into questions where you want to like the good guys but also cant help rooting for the bad ones....
I read this book like 7 years ago and to be honest it;s not my fav out of L J Smith's books... but it was definitely way more different than the others as well.......
As for a spoiler free review....
Well.... Jenny buys a game from a hot and dark stranger for her boyfriend's birthday... And then this group of friends all get stuck inside this weird games that's giving them a run for their money or should I say their lives.... Eventually they find their way out of the game obviously but not before they also find themselves along the way......

Amber wrote: "Just like Kayla said this book is one of those that might call a person's morals into questions where you want to like the good guys but also cant help rooting for the bad ones....
I read this book..."

Great description of the book! Were you Team Tom or Julian?

Julian He's such a hawtie.... All the way...!!! you??

Although I'm betting it's Julian!!

Amber wrote: "Although I'm betting it's Julian!!"

Yeah of course, like I was rooting for him at the start and until the end. Did you like the ending of the book series? I liked it but wished it ended differently If you know what I mean.

Oh I know what you mean.... it was one of the first books that I read that had a bad or well an unexpected ending.... so yeah... i kept hoping and hoping but no dice.....

Amber wrote: "Oh I know what you mean.... it was one of the first books that I read that had a bad or well an unexpected ending.... so yeah... i kept hoping and hoping but no dice....."

Same for me, the ending didn't surprise but I wasn't ready for it. Did you hear about the sequel where Julian comes back? It's meant to be written by LJ in a few years down the line

OOoo I'd be so down for that...!!! But I haven't heard anything about that!!
Although I have to say that it's been a lousy year for books.... I haven't read many that I loved....

Here's the official Synopis and it sounds so good!

Jenny has grown stronger and kinder since the first book, but she still has flashes of temper. She intimates in her fight with Mom that in accordance with their strongly maintained family beliefs she's still a virgin, but that that's likely to change in the next month, whether she wears a veil and stands before a minister or not. Her parents finally cave and Jenny begins to rush around--late again--for one of the most important days of her life. Zach takes over sending the invitations, Tom works with the wedding theme designer while Dee and Audrey and Summer and Jenny pick out their multi-bridal finery. Since it's high summer, they're all in white, but below the white chiffon, Dee is in shimmering mint, Audrey in demure jasmine, and Summer in soft cornflower. Michael acts as gopher. But when the wedding is only four days away, Jenny wakes up (alone!) in her bed. Something on the pillow comes gradually into focus. And then her breath stops and her heart seems to stop with it. As completely awake as if she'd been doused with the remains of an ice-bucket, Jenny can only stare at the object for long, long minutes. Finally, moving nothing but her eyes, she looks around her single dorm room in terror, peering into every sunlit corner. Her sense of hearing seems to have increased to an almost painful state, but there is no sound. She can't bear it any longer. She abruptly slides off the bed and then whirls around, her heart hammering, to confront . . . nothing.

The room is empty except for herself and nothing has changed in it except the silver rose on her pillowcase. Jenny reaches for the phone, then stills. Moving slowly and almost hypnotically, she strips the cover off a pastel yellow pillow and then uses the cloth to pick the silver thing up. It’s heavy. Real silver, solid silver. Sleek, glimmering, its bud halfway open, like lips open for a kiss. She remembers how it had felt in her hand the first time, in the caverns of the dark elves. She needs help with this, she’s not so irrational as to deny it. But right now she feels strongly that she has to examine this object further. Rationality wars with post-hypnotic suggestion. At last a flash of light reveals the message she somehow knew was there. It’s engraved onto the stem in minuscule letters, barely scratches. All I refuse . . . Jenny has known who sent the rose—or brought it, more likely—ever since her vision made it out clearly lying four inches from her face on the pillow. Nevertheless, the words from the past are too much for her. She faints, grazing her head on her nightstand. She wakes to Dee’s anxious face and a broken door. When her friend could hear Jenny’s cell ringing inside but Jenny not answering it, she got anxious. On two subsequent days there are two more roses, engraved “. . . And thee I chuse.” And “Sworn Mine”. On the morning of Jenny's wedding there is nothing, which is almost more frightening than any message. But Jenny sets her teeth and lets Audrey and Dee help her into her finery. Tom was missing from last night’s rehearsal (an emergency phone call from a partner at the law firm where he’s working as a summer associate).

That sounds cool but what if she does the same thing with Julian again??? I don't think I can survive that!!!

Amber wrote: "That sounds cool but what if she does the same thing with Julian again??? I don't think I can survive that!!!"

Yeah hopefully she makes up her mind and well.. leaves tom