Owen Greene\u2019s determined to have a good first year at Point University come hell or high water\u2014even if hell is exactly what he gets. A team of scientists recently created a portal to an alternate dimension that contains basically every stereotypical element of a hell\u2014\u201cdemons, brimstone, rivers of lava.\u201d But Owen is shocked to learn that Zarmenus Bloodletter, the so-called prince of Hell, is sharing his room. And though Zarmenus turns out to be a pretty good-natured guy (and hot, too\u2014although Owen\u2019s trying not to notice), neither he nor his soul-stealing cat, Bell, know how to be a good roommate. There\u2019s a lot riding on this interdimensional exchange program, which could promote harmonious human-demon relations. But then Zarmenus ropes Owen into a fake-dating scheme for the ages\u2014Owen will help party boy Zarmenus behave better, so his father doesn\u2019t make him leave, and in return Zarmenus will help Owen secure the internship he desperately wants. Fun gags aside, Hell is thinly sketched, and Zarmenus doesn\u2019t experience much culture shock on Earth. But as a slow-burn romance, the story is tender, undeniably electric, and charmingly innocent, and the examination of the often-fraught first year of college is superb. Owen is cued white. Zarmenus sometimes appears as a pale-skinned human and sometimes as a towering, fiery-red, winged creature. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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