The Angels: A Dark High School Romance (Raven River Academy Book 1) Kindle Edition

This poor girl! Ember is surviving, Barely by the skin of her teeth. Her parent left her and her brother to fend for themselves.This book started out slowly and built up to where I can't guess it will go .

Ember is still reeling from her parent’s deceit when she’s thrown into a new school with people who hate her. The town is separated into Raveners (the rich) and OBs (the not rich). She’s a child of raveners who turned on their own and stole their money as well as some of the OBs. Now both hate Ember, because they think she can lead them to her parents, but simply refuses to. Where the truth reveals she has no clue where they are hiding. Someone begins blackmailing Ember and when she ignores them they hurt Eli her deaf brother. She also finds out that her parents stole from the Horsemen and they want her to work off their debt. She is reunited with her “first”, Royal and his friends Cassius, Clay, and Hiro who are horsemen. Royal does his best to convince her to pay back the debt and when she doesn’t he protects her and convinces Rio to take her on as a Horseman and allow her to pay the debt that way. However, when Cassius and Clay attempt to pay her debt for her, as repayment for saving their sister, Rio finds out she’s not paying her debt at all and decides to meet her face to face. This is where the book leaves us in a cliffhanger with shots fired.

This is the heart stopping, thrilling type of book I look for where so many others are lacking. Some lack adequate plot, others lack intensity, while in many characters or dialogue fall flat. With this book every aspect is a work of excellence. I can't recommend it more highly. It's just too bad stars stop at five!

I don’t review a lot of books, I read so many and I love a lot of them. And I’m just flat out terrible at just taking a few minutes to write it out…BUT, this book…. Holy moly mother of god! 🔥🔥🔥- It grabbed me from the first chapter! The characters and secrets, the different groups and plots, the twists that you come across. Uuugh! Unbelievable.- Very great book! Highly recommend you give it a shot!- Now I am off to start the second book…. And pray I don’t stay up till 4am again 😅😭

Wow! I could not put this book down. I loved every second of The Angels! Ruby Vincent is brilliant! This was such a good story from the first page.We meet Ember and her younger brother Eli at a time in their lives when their world has turned on its end. Their parents are on the run, the town they call home has turned against them, they’re forced to live with family members who can’t stand them, and they’ve lost everyone they care about except each other. Now they’re being thrown to the wolves in a boarding school filled with the kids whose parents were scammed and who are taking their anger out on Ember.If this weren’t enough, The Angels, Royal, Cas, Clay, and Hiro, the ruthless members of their town’s notorious Four Horsemen gang, also have an interest in Ember. Oh, let’s not forget that in addition to the bullying and the gang, Ember is also being blackmailed and Eli’s physical safety threatened.This book was nonstop action. As Ruby Vincent does well from all the stories I’ve read from her, she gives us a true, raw backdrop to the relationships that develop between Ember and the guys. There is so much going on. So well written! And that cliffhanger!!! I can’t wait to see what happens next.

I like the story overall, the bullying over what her parents supposedly did dominated the book and because of that, it got really old. The character relationships and the bombshell at the end were pretty great; enough so that I'm going to keep reading.

The Angels is the first installment in the Raven River Academy series, a dark high school bully romance by Ruby Vincent.While I’m disgusting by the shocking amount of ignorance all of these ‘smart’ children and their parents possess, given their misguided treatment of Ember for her parents crimes. The writing and prose definitely shaped a beautiful story of woe, intrigue, and confusing angsty teenage emotions.Ember Bancroft is barely an adult and already facing such tumultuous circumstances with a staggering amount of maturity. I imagine this can be attributed to her little confession at the end of this book.The boys:Royal Cruz is the boy who saved her. Talked her off of a ledge and treasured her through her first time, only to disappear in the morning. Bumping into him at her new Academy comes as a shock, only outclassed by discovering his gang affiliations. But everything that should scare her away from him doesn’t stop her from remembering her savior, and fantasizing about a second chance.Clay and Cassius Walker are two mischievous twins. Blonde adonis’ adorned in tattoos and mystery. Cas implores the broken girl inside her to acknowledge their common ground. Clay has yet to really come out of his shell but you can sense the building tension between them.Hiro Saito is the most reclusive, most hidden of their group. Always quick with a sneer, always dismissive. But it’s more difficult to not imagine them together in the future, than that they won’t overcome their current differences.I just adore the relationship Eli and Ember have. It’s made more special by their speaking only in sign language. It’s almost as if they live in their own happy bubble when they’re talking to one another. They share a beautiful bond, and I only hope nothing will destroy it.A lot of the plot is still a mystery. And that cliffhanger definitely adds to it. Along with the two massive truths dropped in the final chapter. Where are her parents? Are they really evil criminal masterminds? Did they truly care nothing of leaving their children behind? Who is the culprit behind Eli’s attack and the cryptic locker threats? Can Ember truly trust these four new men in her life? Or will they only further bury her?

This was a very good book. It pulls you in immediately and doesn’t let up. The ending is insane in a good way.