TITLE: Nocticadia
AUTHOR: Keri Lake
GENRE: Dark Academia Gothic Romance
RELEASE DATE: April 25, 2023
BLURB.
Mortui vivos docent.
The dead teach the living.
After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I’d find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me.
Four years later, I receive an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the oldest, most prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast of Maine, it’s rumored to be haunted by the souls of the mental patients exiled there centuries before. Those whose bones are said to make up the island’s white sandy shores.
And restless ghosts aren’t even its most daunting peculiarity.
Devryck Bramwell, known on campus as Doctor Death, is a brilliant pathologist in charge of the midnight lab. He’s also my devastatingly handsome professor, who seems to loathe tenacious first-years, like me. Except, his dark and enigmatic gaze tells me all the ways he’d devour me if given the chance, and his stolen kisses burn my lips with forbidden jealousy.
I crave his authority.
He aches for redemption.
Together, we’re toxic. Delicious fodder for the prying eyes hellbent on exhuming the rotted skeletons of our pasts.
For the dead have much to teach, and it’s only a matter of time before Dracadia’s most depraved secret is resurrected.
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MY REVIEW.
4 Stars from Tiffany!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Creepy Romance for Sure…
In Nocticadia (yeah, I still don’t know how to pronounce it) Keri Lake gives her readers a creepy to the max romance, with a splash of mystery.
As the blog says, Lilia is on the search to figure out what killed her mother and Doctor Death has the answers. Not that she knows that when accepting the Dracadia scholarship, but come on, why else would they have invited her. So, I found that was predictable, however the story that was weaved around Lilia and Professor Devryck Bramwell a.k.a. Doctor Death I found most interesting. There is quite a bit of who done it and past discretions needing figured out and fixed between a handful of unusual, yet intertwined characters that kept me turning the page.
The book is well written, and my first Keri Lake read. If I had one complaint, it was way too long. The story was intriguing, however there were times I started to skim wanting to get to the “good part” I knew was waiting for me. As a new fan of the gothic genre (this was my second gothic book) I enjoyed Nocticadia and would be all in for a continuance of these characters and supporting characters, as the story has somewhere to go. Nocticadia reads as a stand alone with an epilogue that piqued my interest.
AUTHOR BIO.
KERI LAKE is a dark romance writer who specializes in demon wrangling, vengeance dealing and wicked twists. Her stories are gritty, with antiheroes that walk the line of good and bad, and feisty heroines who bring them to their knees. When not penning books, she enjoys spending time with her husband, daughters, and their rebellious Labrador (who doesn’t retrieve a damn thing). She runs on strong coffee and alternative music, loves a good red wine, and has a slight addiction to dark chocolate.
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