Wings of Ruin

De: Diana A. Hicks

Narrado por: Dane Anderson, Rose Dioro

Seventeen-year-old Aurora Vitali didn’t have the best life in Las Vegas, but it was a place to call home. When her father scores a win after so many fails, he abruptly moves the whole family to the Upper East Side in New York City. Aurora is quickly seduced by the glitz and glamour of her new world, where designer clothes, limos, and beach parties are the norm.

Her first day at their elite school, she meets Enzo Alfera, one of the royals. He’s rich, gorgeous, and so dangerous. The magnetic pull she feels when he’s near is absolutely irresistible. She’s warned to stay away, and that’s exactly what she plans to do. Except every time their paths cross, neither one of them can deny their powerful attraction.

Going against their parents’ wishes, they give into their burning desires. He’s dark and cunning. She’s sweet and innocent. Together, they are explosive.

But their parents have plans of their own. The choices they make to get ahead threaten to pull Aurora and Enzo apart. Now the star-crossed lovers have to decide if their forbidden love is worth going against everything and everyone.

Enzo knows what he wants. And he’s willing to do whatever it takes to keep Aurora for himself. If he fails, it could destroy them both.

A Note from Diana: Fallen Raven is book one in the Raven Duet, which is a stand-alone romance in the Society World featuring Enzo Alfera and Aurora Vitali. This modern-day Romeo and Juliet retelling is about never letting go. Check TW

This book features:

• He falls first
• Star-crossed lovers
• Angst, family feud
• Forbidden love

©2022 Diana A. Hicks (P)2023 Diana A. Hicks

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Now a 2023 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner in the Romance: Contemporary genre!"

Enzo and Aurora!

Aurora has never had a lot of choices when it comes to her family, and she now finds herself in another difficult situation. All she wants to do is stay under the radar and finish high school but when she attracts the attention of Enzo and his friends that is no longer possible.

Enzo has always known what his future would be which includes being a powerful man within the mafia family. He can’t afford to show any weakness, so he tries to treat Aurora like the rest of his friends, as the recipient of their scorn, however his feelings for her are way more complicated.

Aurora is both innocent and naïve while Enzo is sophisticated and jaded. The love between them is undeniable and the performance of narrators only amped up the suspense as the twists keep coming as well as the angst only increases which leads up to a cliffhanger that leaves us wondering what happens next.

Angst and drama

Fallen Raven Book 1 is the fifth book in the Crime Society series, and while the previous books don’t need to be read, this does end on a cliffhanger.

Aurora and her family have just moved, and she now attends high school with the royals, the teenagers with family high up in the mafia. Enzo is at the top, and he’s immediately drawn to her, but he tries to deny his feelings. And when his friends make her a part of their game, he decides not to partake, until he realizes he doesn’t want any of them to touch her.

Well, since it’s set in high school, this came with angst, bullying, the people at the top being cruel to the new girl, and of course, drama.

Enzo was a little cruel, but he quickly changed. And Aurora, well. She didn’t have it easy, but she also just forgave so easily. She wasn’t my favorite, but Enzo was sweet enough (in the end).

This is ends on a cliffhanger, so the next book will finish Enzo and Aurora’s story.

Audio
Narrators: Rose Dioro and Dane Anderson
Style: Dual

These two did a great job bringing the story and characters to life. Although, I wouldn’t have expected a high school student to sound the way Dane made Enzo sound.

Star crossed lovers

🖤💙AUDIOBOOK RELEASE💙🖤

🎧: 🤩🤩
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
🌶️🌶️🌶️.5/5

Tropes:
🖤HE FALLS FIRST
💙STAR-CROSSED LOVERS
🖤ANGST, FAMILY FEUD
💙FORBIDDEN LOVE

This audiobook was wonderful!! New to me author, Diana A. Hicks wrote an angst, family feud, star-crossed lovers romance set at an elite high school in New York. Enzo and Aurora (Rory) run into each other when she’s fresh in New York and shopping for school. They wind up in school together and she finds herself in the drama of the five families of the mafia because of her father’s wrong-doings. They still manage to fall in love and have a whirlwind of a story to get to their happily ever after. The narration is spot on and Dane Anderson and Rose Dioro do a wonderful job bringing voice to these characters and making the experience immersive.

These are a duet and require reading book 1 before book 2 because it picks up 11 years after book 1. Thanks for the audiobook Diana and Indie Pen, hope to read more of your books in the future!!

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Holy Cliffhanger!

With this being the first book of the duet and both Aurora and Enzo still in high school, it was hard to picture them as 17-18 year olds with the narrators voices. However, the narrators did an AMAZING job portraying every emotion Aurora, Enzo, and all the other characters were feeling.

Aurora and Enzo meet in high school, and their senior year is not what one would expect. It's full of emotional abuse and tragedy. What a cliffhanger!

Dark high school drama

I received an ALC of this book and this review is my own views. I don’t usually read High School romance books but this book although set in High School was anything but…
Aurora is sent to an Elite private school when her dad lands new job working for the Society. All their children and future leaders of the society known ans the Royals attend the school. When Aurora catches the eye of Enzo, the future king of the royals things get complicated. This is a bulling romance but Enzo doesn’t come across as that bad as he hasn’t been groomed too much being a high school kid. It’s a slow burn too but the sparks do fly between the enzo and Aurora.
The narration on this book was well done and kept me gripped throughout.