My Roommate from Hell
A Novel
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4.8 • 4개의 평가
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"A hilarious and charming descent into love, fake dating, and actual Hell. I couldn't stop grinning." - Aiden Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys
A swoon-worthy YA rom com about an ambitious college student whose plans get derailed when he discovers his roommate is the prince of hell.
Owen is not going to college to have fun. Nothing is going to stop him from achieving his goals: study hard, get a good job, and set himself up for the rest of his life. The last thing he needs is to have a loud, obnoxious, and infuriatingly hot roommate. Especially since said roommate just so happens to be the prince of hell.
Prince Zarmenus has come to Point University for the first-ever Earth/hell exchange program, and he's determined to make the most of it. Which may or may not include wild parties, bringing in random boys to his and Owen's room, and accidentally setting Owen's furniture on fire. Sparks fly (literally) as Owen and Zar clash, but Zar's actions threaten to not only ruin Owen's peaceful college life, but demon-human relations as well. To clean up his image, he asks Owen to be his fake boyfriend and teach him how to be a better human in exchange for an internship that will secure Owen’s future. That, and Zar will consider being a better roommate.
A deal is struck, and the two start pretending to be in a relationship where they each have agendas of their own. Only Owen has a secret—dating his mortal enemy, even if it’s fake, is the most fun he's ever had.
Charming and fun, My Roommate from Hell is a rom com with a magical twist. Think just one bed, but that bed is in hell, surrounded by fire and brimstone.
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Dietrich (The Rules of Royalty) embraces the chaos and uncertainty of redefining oneself in a new setting and the joy of discovering community in this tropey paranormal rom-com. When freshman Owen arrives at Point University, he discovers that his roommate is Zarmenus, prince of the newly discovered Hell dimension, who is attending college as part of an inter-dimensional exchange program. Though Owen is reluctant to deal with an arrogant partier—and the drunken frat boys, fanatical demon hunters, and supernatural nuisances he attracts—classmate Dean persuades Owen to give it a go, hoping to use the duo's successful cohabitation as proof that humans and demons can coexist. Initial friction between Owen and Zarmenus settles into a tentative truce until media scrutiny prompts the roomies to cook up a fake-dating arrangement to distract from Zarmenus's partying. But when their manufactured relationship starts feeling too real, they must figure out what they really want. As introverted Owen explores his queerness, both alone and in relation to Zarmenus's open-book nature, he's able to embrace his identity with more confidence, resulting in a gratifying—if somewhat predictable—tale about personal agency and forging one's own path. Owen and Dean read as white; Zarmenus has red skin. Ages 12–up.
