Radiance

Alyson Noël

Aug 2010 · A Riley Bloom Book Book 1 · Sold by Square Fish

About this ebook

Riley has crossed the bridge into the afterlife—a place called Here, where time is always Now. She has picked up life where she left off when she was alive, living with her parents and dog in a nice house in a nice neighborhood. When she's summoned before The Council, she learns that the afterlife isn't just an eternity of leisure. She's been assigned a job, Soul Catcher, and a teacher, Bodhi, a possibly cute, seemingly nerdy boy who's definitely hiding something. They return to earth together for Riley's first assignment, a Radiant Boy who's been haunting a castle in England for centuries. Many Soul Catchers have tried to get him to cross the bridge and failed. But all of that was before he met Riley . . .

Radiance is the first book in the Riley Bloom series from bestselling author Alyson Noël.

Ratings and reviews

The beging was good but the end lost me about the wailing woman and stuff. I thought the radiniant boys would be the almost the whole ending but they made three chapters then its the wailing woman then they learn to fly and then its the end. The parents don't get meationed alot. Also what happens when Riley returns to there?

i got really confused at the end with the wailing woman. it really skipped around and i kind of hated this book. its kind of dumb too... dont waste time reading this.

it was okay. well, number one, it isn't a teen book. its more for, say, 10 years and younger kinda. no romance, really, no gore, no creepyness, no scary stuff. aah.... i liked alyson noels idea of the afterlife, but still. it was okay.

About the author

Alyson Noël is the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Faking 19, Art Geeks and Prom Queens, Laguna Cove, Fly Me to the Moon, Kiss & Blog, Saving Zoë, Cruel Summer, and The Immortals series including Evermore, Blue Moon, Shadowland, Dark Flame, and Night Star, as well as the Immortals spin-off series beginning with Radiance. With over 2 million copies in print in the US alone, her books have been published in 35 countries and have won awards including the National Reader's Choice Award, NYLA Book of Winter Award, NYPL Stuff for the Teenage, TeenReads Best Books of 2007, and Reviewer's Choice 2007 Top Ten, and have been chosen for the CBS Early Show's "Give the Gift of Reading" segment, and selected for Seventeen Magazine's "Hot List" and Beach Book Club Pick. She lives in Laguna Beach, California.