While I’ve always had them on my bookshelves (till now, they’re in storage), I haven’t re-read them. But, in college, I mostly put the books away.
FORBIDDEN GAME TRILOGY SERIES
first wrote, though she was only publishing actively for less than ten years (particularly 1994-1998), she managed to create several series that had an enormous impact on me as a person and a writer. So while I’ve never read the two stand-alone books that L.J. It also explains why she stopped writing for a decade. It’s a very bizarre (and cautionary) story. is using fanfiction to write and publish her version of new Vampire Diaries books. There’s a really good Wall Street Journal article I just found while researching for this post that talks about what happened and how L.J. Smith and Strange Fate, I’d noted that she’d been fired from writing The Vampire Diaries and that new books were being written by a ghostwriter. All of this feels like ancient history to me now, but that last book, Strange Fate, still hasn’t been published, which I’ve written about here before.Īt the end of my earlier post about L.J. By the time I went off to college in 2000, L.J.’s fans still didn’t know what had happened to her and were still waiting for her to publish the last book of a 10-book series which was supposed to wrap up before the new millennium. I also wrote my first book and I was heavily influenced by L.J.’s books when I wrote it, especially The Secret Circle. The Internet was relatively new to the casual home user and I explored webrings (remember those?) and e-mail during that first summer away from everything I knew. Stranded in unbearably humid Louisiana as a surly teenager, I re-read all my L.J. This is my cut-off for the books I’m reading during The Re-Reading Project and it was also a pivotal year for L.J., who stopped publishing for more than a decade.
In 1998, I was 16 and I moved from my hometown in Georgia to Mandeville, Louisiana (a suburb north of New Orleans, across Lake Ponchartrain). might have modeled Julian from The Forbidden Game on Jareth from Labyrinth.
Maybe it’s because I just re-watched Labyrinth (on a huge screen outdoors in a field by the river with food trucks nearby, perfect), but I totally suspect now, as an adult, that L.J. But The Forbidden Game is like Labyrinth meets Jumanji meets Norse mythology. would write about the psychically gifted, a coven of modern-day witches, vampires, and more in her other series. Sometimes, as in The Forbidden Game, they are relatively normal teenagers. Most of L.J.’s books feature teenagers dealing with extraordinary circumstances or creatures with minor adult supervision. Smith’s book compulsively and if I remember correctly, The Forbidden Game was my favorite series during this time.Įmilie’s original battered copies of The Forbidden Game trilogy Smith fan and had read most of her books. By the time I started tracking my reading in 1996, I was already an earnest L.J. Smith‘s that I read, probably around the time they were published in 1994. I’m fairly sure that The Forbidden Game trilogy were the first books of L.J. They were like bandaged eyes turned toward her. After the last riots, the police had cleared things up, but many of the vandalized stores still had boarded windows, which gave Jenny a creeping feeling between her shoulder blades. She hadn’t realized, though, that Eastman Avenue had gotten quite so rough. This wasn’t the best neighborhood in town, and she’d come here specifically because she didn’t want any of her friends to see her. There were two of them, one dressed in a black T-shirt and leather vest, with a black bandanna on his head, the other in a long flannel shirt, black-and-blue plaid, unbuttoned. They matched their pace to hers when she slowed to pretend to look in a store window, they slowed, too. They were still behind her, on the other side of the street but definitely following.
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