Nocticadia By Keri Lake

Rating: 5 stars

Adult - Spice: Age Gap, Enemies to Lovers, Teacher Student, Forbidden Romance, Slow Burn

Genre: Fantasy, Fantasy Romance, Gothic Romance, Mystery, Romance

Tags: Dark, Academia, Secret Societies, Book Review

Lilia has not had an easy life. After watching her mother die to a mysterious illness, her dream is to cure it. Struggling to help support her sister while dealing with her own ghosts. After a professor reads a paper he submits it to a Ivey League school, Dracadia University located on an Island off the coast of Maine. Things are not all they seem there. Lilia is drawn to her professor, Derryck Bramwell. He's an expert in the very thing she wants to cure.

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The Lilia may only be 20 years old, but she's had to grow up fast. She is strong and street smart. Derryck is dark and brooding. The two together have chemistry, but their banter with one another is brilliant. Lilia learns fast how to get under her professor's skin. The world is modern but also has dark gothic academia tones to it. The actual school was an old monastery, then asylum and now a school. There is a great deal of history in this story. I loved reading this book, felling like I was pulled into this book from the first chapter.

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Pages: 682

Read: Digital

From: Kindle Unlimited

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“A dark, atmospheric tale of deadly secrets and forbidden love.

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.”