TITLE: Naked or Dead
AUTHOR: A.E. Murphy
GENRE: Dark | Romance
PUBLICATION: September 3rd, 2019
SYNOPSIS
Small town, small-minded people, small expectations, and big A-holes.
Lilith Deville is the new enigma at Lakeside Preparatory Academy, a prestigious high school by a river and not a lake, which makes sense, not. Already she hates it despite its beautiful landscape.
Between riding her dirt bike through the sacred lands of the natives, plotting against those she meets, and holding greasy truckers at gunpoint, Lilith makes no time for love or friendship. Forever the walking mystery (read misery) of her new home and school.
That is until Nokosi Locklear catches her eye with his arrogance and a hard, toned body that she’s certain she doesn’t want to climb.
Shoved up against a locker by him in her first week, she sets him in her wicked sights.
Life is only fun when you have somebody else’s pain to focus on. So long as you stay detached. Something Lilith will find is impossible to do when it comes to Nokosi. A guy with looks but no charm. Strength but no power. Love but no morals.
With a serial killer roaming the States, taking victims one by one, a past in Nokosi’s eyes that he tries to hide, and a mother that would rather work than keep her daughters happy, Lilith finds plenty of time to spare and plenty of things to keep herself occupied.
Lilith Deville is the new enigma at Lakeside Preparatory Academy, a prestigious high school by a river and not a lake, which makes sense, not. Already she hates it despite its beautiful landscape.
Between riding her dirt bike through the sacred lands of the natives, plotting against those she meets, and holding greasy truckers at gunpoint, Lilith makes no time for love or friendship. Forever the walking mystery (read misery) of her new home and school.
That is until Nokosi Locklear catches her eye with his arrogance and a hard, toned body that she’s certain she doesn’t want to climb.
Shoved up against a locker by him in her first week, she sets him in her wicked sights.
Life is only fun when you have somebody else’s pain to focus on. So long as you stay detached. Something Lilith will find is impossible to do when it comes to Nokosi. A guy with looks but no charm. Strength but no power. Love but no morals.
With a serial killer roaming the States, taking victims one by one, a past in Nokosi’s eyes that he tries to hide, and a mother that would rather work than keep her daughters happy, Lilith finds plenty of time to spare and plenty of things to keep herself occupied.
MY REVIEW
'NAKED OR DEAD'
Is a full length stand-alone romance by author A.E. Murphy.
What the heck did I just read!?! This is one book where I'm stumped with what to put in my review, there are so many twists and turns which are revealing, either way if you've not read this book definitely #oneclick it, it's beyond unique and will have you questioning everything you thought you knew. So without further a do I'm going to have to leave this review short and brief so as not to spoil it for others after me. Go in bind and love the shit out of this book like I did!!
Seventeen year old Lilith Deville is the new kid on the block at Lakeside Predatory Academy and has her sight set on befriending the most arrogant male of the school, and that just so happens to be Nokosi Locklear, the only Native American attendee. He's also the king of the school and makes it known that he'd never date a white girl.
Lilith has moved from school to school every few weeks or so, never able to set down roots. Nokosi lives on a reservation. These two are as opposite as you can get. But the fire between them is scorching.
This was such a roller coaster of a ride. My emotions were thrown into overdrive, the angst, the feels, the suspense, this book took me down twists and turns I wasn’t prepared for!
My heart wanted to cry for the injustice of that ending. I never saw it coming 😢
What the heck did I just read!?! This is one book where I'm stumped with what to put in my review, there are so many twists and turns which are revealing, either way if you've not read this book definitely #oneclick it, it's beyond unique and will have you questioning everything you thought you knew. So without further a do I'm going to have to leave this review short and brief so as not to spoil it for others after me. Go in bind and love the shit out of this book like I did!!
Seventeen year old Lilith Deville is the new kid on the block at Lakeside Predatory Academy and has her sight set on befriending the most arrogant male of the school, and that just so happens to be Nokosi Locklear, the only Native American attendee. He's also the king of the school and makes it known that he'd never date a white girl.
Lilith has moved from school to school every few weeks or so, never able to set down roots. Nokosi lives on a reservation. These two are as opposite as you can get. But the fire between them is scorching.
This was such a roller coaster of a ride. My emotions were thrown into overdrive, the angst, the feels, the suspense, this book took me down twists and turns I wasn’t prepared for!
My heart wanted to cry for the injustice of that ending. I never saw it coming 😢
I fell so hard for their love story, wrapped up in all the feels, loving everything that came along with it, until the rug was literally pulled out from under me! Left siting here flabbergasted, yelling at the author, crying for these characters who I loved wholeheartedly. Well played A.E. Murphy!!
