September 01 2009

A note on The Forbidden Game here, so don’t go any further if you have yet to read this awesome trilogy: As much as I think Julian as a character is awesome and however one might be tempted, it’s an unfair playing field and Julian is not the most… admirable of choices. It’s just like in Labyrinth – and I’m not the first nor the last to compare The Forbidden Game to Labyrinth – we might at first shout at Sarah to not be an idiot and to “just let [him] rule you” as there’s no way we’d turn down a beautiful goblin king who wants to make us a queen – especially one who’s in those pants – but on further reflection we’d remember, “Hey, this is a guy who steals babies, is mean to his subjects and is hitting on a teenage girl with talks of fear, slavery and being ruled. Do not want.

—A footnote cut from my review of Dark Visions by L.J. Smith as it did not contribute in any meaningful way. It’s now here as I did not want to let the actual text go.

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