Nocticadia
Author: Keri Lake
Publisher: Keri Lake, April 25, 2023
Language: English
Kindle, 682 Pages
Genre: Dark Academia Gothic Romance
Back Cover Summary:
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.
ATTWB Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
ATTWB Review:
This was my first Keri Lake book and it had me hooked; after finishing I downloaded all of her other books to my Kindle. I love books with a gothic atmosphere and this book takes place at the prestigious university, Dracadia, on a secluded island that is said to be haunted. This is a forbidden love with twists and turns that will keep you intrigued. It is moody, haunting and dark and the way Keri articulates the setting drew me in and helped me envision the backdrop she painted. This is a must read for dark romance readers that crave a scandalous student-professor affair with an equal balance of suspense and mystery!
Favorite Highlights:
“You’re a sickness inside of me that begs never to be cured. Infecting me with this unshakable craving for things I shouldn’t want.”
“She was the warmth of the sun on a cold and rotting corpse. The first breath after a lifetime of death.”
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