(USE OCT168034) MARK OF THE SUCCUBUS GN VOL 02 (OF 3)

  Maeve unfortunately must hurt the one person that she cares for.  She now has a choice to save her first target or defy demon law!  If she tries to bend the Rules, there may be a chance that neither of them will survive.  
        Key Selling Points:  
•    Will appeal to fans of Demon Diary and Vampire Game
•    Dedicated web site at MarkoftheSuccubus.net
•    Creator interview in the September/October 2005 issue of ELLEgirl
•    In-store appearances and signings in select markets
•    Rated a "Must Read" "...has all of the makings of being a series worth watching.  - IGN.com
•    "Maeve is an exquisite blend of ingeniousness and sexiness...With a painfully cliff-hanging ending, Mark of the Succubus is as seductive as its heroine." - Newtype USA
•    "The plot is fresh and will appeal to most teens with its elements of high school drama combined with fantasy.  These facets of the writing blended with Flores's gothic manga-inspired art will make this book fly off the shelves.  -School Library Journal
Blurbs:  
    •   "With spot-on facial expressions and dialogue, writer Ashly Raiti and artist Irene Flores perfectly capture the uncertainty and challenges of adolescents...Maeve is an exquisite blend of ingeniousness and sexiness...With a painfully cliff-hanging ending, Mark of the Succubus is as seductive as its heroine."
- Newtype USA
•    Rated a "Must Read" "...has all of the makings of being a series worth watching."
- IGN.com
•    Gr 9 Up-In this OEL manga, readers meet sweet and stunning Maeve, a succubus-in-training.  (A succubus is a demon who seduces men and then kills them.) Hailing from the Demon World, she is sent to the human world to fine-tune her skills.  She enters high school and meets Aiden, a handsome young slacker with a demanding father and a shrew for a girlfriend.  The two become friends, and there is an underlying attraction between them.  Their awkward romance builds to a crescendo until Maeve completes her training and is instructed to kill her first human, which happens to be Aiden.  Though the sexual innuendo is kept to a minimum, and the relationship ventures no further than flirting, there is some fairly strong language.  The characters are well crafted and likable.  The plot is fresh and will appeal to most teens with its elements of high school drama combined with fantasy.  These facets of the writing blended with Flores's gothic manga-inspired art will make this book fly off the shelves.  
- Jennifer Feigelman, School Library Journal View All Items In This Series