The Riley Bloom series is a series of children’s novels by New York Times bestselling author Alyson Noel best known for writing The Immortals series of novels. After the first novel in the series became so successful on the bookshelves and was praised by critics, Noel published several more titles in the still ongoing series of novels that were just as successful as the first. As opposed to her highly popular Immortals series of novels, the author writes for a younger and more innocent audience. The lead character in the series of novels is Riley Bloom a young and innocent like girl who dies and goes to the land of The Here and Now to start a new life as a soul catcher. The first novel in the series was Radiance that the author first published …show more content…
She has found herself in a new world of the Here and Now where she has shed her annoying typical little sister personality as she finds a job as a soul catcher. Life in the afterlife is not a bed of roses full of leisure as she discovers that she will have to work catching souls, which she turns out to be very good at. She is under the tutelage of Bodhi who is a nerdy but cute boy that will help her in her quest to become a soul catcher. Soul catching is a huge responsibility in the afterlife and Riley may have to be more mature in her decisions and actions than she has ever been. However, the biggest thing bothering the young girl is that she is perpetually stuck at twelve years, and will never attain the elusive age of thirteen. While it is a source of frustration for the lead character, it may be put down to the stubbornness of a child at that age who for the most part never listens. However, despite her early struggles she makes a for a very good soul catcher, though she often has to deal with some of the worst of spirits who are obsessed with revenge and refuse to leave the world they know. Nonetheless, the main idea of the series of novels is that one can still attain their dreams and be useful to their society no matter their