
He even compares it to Hades and Persephone. Villainous Crush: Julian towards Jenny.

Took a Level in Badass: Jenny mainly but all of the friends to some extent.Stalker with a Crush: Julian acts this way towards Jenny.Satellite Love Interest: Tom is not characterized as much in The Hunter, but gets some Character Development in the other books.Her nightmare is her bedroom taken up to eleven as it ends up covered in garbage, filled with bugs the size of sneakers, cracking apart as an earthquake hits and covered in howling fungus. Love Triangle: Jenny, Julian, and Tom are part of one.Lotus-Eater Machine: What Julian is offering Jenny without quite understanding why it would be frightening and horrible for her to completely give in.The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: Julian originally sells the Forbidden Game out of a shop located in the middle of a mural that disappears as soon as Jenny leaves it. Summer Parker-Pearson is a childhood friend of Jenny, described as being slight and small, with 'thistledown' blond hair and blue eyes.to throw Jenny in a game, she learns the Shadow Man she loved is not dead. However he manages to help them get back to their world before he ceases to exist. But when poor Summer is chosen, Jenny refuses to sit by quietly and let her. Heroic Sacrifice: Julian is willing to die in order to save Jenny from his fellow Shadow Men so they unmake him.Gilded Cage: Compared to what Julian could be doing the settings for the first two books qualify.Jenny is shocked because they are supposed to be beautiful but Julian states that over time their true natures shine through and their beauty transforms to ugliness. The Shadow Men when they appear at the end.He claims it's a silly fear based on a story he read as a child but after the gang nearly turn into plants themselves, they claim that his fear is just as horrid as everyone else's.

Body Horror: Michael's nightmare is all about turning into a plant.

