Mark of the Succubus

    (Tokyopop, 2005)
™ and © 2005 Tokyopop

Succubus-in-training Maeve is sent to Earth for on-the-job experience seducing mortals and is sent where hormones run their highest: high school. There, she meets the dreamy Aiden, who helps her become acclimatized to both school and Earth. However, just as she’s getting the hang of life human-style, she’s forced to seduce and kill her first victim: Aiden.

You’d think a high-school succubus would be some kind of slut bomb, but Maeve clearly thinks looking and acting like someone’s perky younger sister is the way to arouse high-school boys. Moreover, the high-school soap-opera stuff is pretty dull and the office politics of Hell are just confusing. (Someone there is inexplicably interested in seeing Maeve fail.)

It does win points, though, for making the thing that starts Maeve thinking approvingly of humans being art instead of the traditional “this strange thing you call love.” Overall, it’s just average. It doesn’t help that the captions in the first few pages are in a font that’s unreadable given the size of the reproduction.

— S. A. Bennett

From the Publisher:

For a succubus, love can be a real nightmare… Maeve, a succubus-in-training, is sent to the human world by her mentor, Veril, to learn how to blend in and hone her skills of seduction. However, things get a little complicated after she meets Aiden, a smart, but unmotivated student at her new high school. Unfortunately for her, Sylne, the head succubus of the Demon World has sent a spy to catch any missteps her former protégé. Between Aiden’s witchy girlfriend, his nutty best friend, biology class, and Demon World conspiracies, Maeve is going to be lucky to make it out of high school alive!

Finalists in Tokyopop’s national Rising Stars of Manga competition, Ashly Raiti and Irene Flores have created a Gothic romantic fantasy set in one of the most menacing worlds known to humans: high school.
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