Clara & the Devil, Volume 1
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- HUF4,290.00
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- HUF4,290.00
Publisher Description
The devil has come to town. And he wants a library card. Star author Olivie Blake and artist Little Chmura kick off a deliciously dark graphic novel romance series with Clara & the Devil, Volume 1.
Clara has the rest of her life figured out. She’ll graduate college with the support of her best friend, Jonah; marry her adoring boyfriend; take a full-time job at her local library; and settle down in her small seaside hometown. But when an unusual tourist—tall, dark, and infernal—comes to town, Clara’s careful plans quickly start to unravel.
And even while the stranger, who openly calls himself the devil, strikes up a situationship with Jonah, he continues to tempt Clara with reckless talk of power, ambition, and lust. Over the course of one sultry summer, tensions between Clara, Jonah, and the devil mount to an intolerable degree, and Clara is forced to confront the desires she’s kept secret her whole life, even from herself.
This deliciously dark tale of Faustian bargains and seduction from New York Times–bestselling author Olivie Blake and fan-favorite artist Little Chmura kicks off a series that explores artistry and power through the temptation of the seven deadly sins.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Seductive, vivid art can't save a plodding pace in the uneven first volume collecting Blake (The Atlas Six) and Little Chmura's dark romance webtoon. Clara, a college student studying literature, lives a quaint life in a coastal town where she works part-time in a library. Her staid relationship with her high school sweetheart, Andrew, is headed for marriage, until the Devil saunters up to the membership desk. He's classic Mephistopheles: "extremely handsome," versed in doublespeak, and swaggering. He introduces himself as Nick, "as in Old Scratch," and requests a library card. Nick becomes curious about Jonah, Clara's flirtatious but closeted bisexual best friend, and later seduces him at a beach bonfire. Clara's insecurity-driven obsession over Nick and Jonah's relationship comprises the bulk of the plot, which unfolds in her wandering, expository thoughts. Chmura's alluring watercolors and inks—bleeding sexual tension and violent desire across the page—carry the predictable narrative. The provocative red coloring—outlining flames and framing the damned—heightens the tension, as Nick inevitably proposes a devil's bargain to Clara. Unfortunately, the script never quite matches the level of the art. It amounts to an unsatisfying temptation.
