Radiant Reading Reviews

2023 was kind of a eghhhh year for me, but I have a better outlook for 2024. I created a vison board to represent everything that I wanted to do this year – even if it was on the schedule so nothing gets forgotten. A few things this board represents: DANCE Spending more time with friends (I want to make more this year too) Traveling to London in March (One of my first Spring Break…

Craving Beauty (Wylder Tales #1) by Jennifer SilverwoodGenre: Fairytale/ FantasyAge category: Young Adult/ New AdultRelease Date: 14 July 2023Blurb:A dark tale of enchantment and woe, perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson and Holly Black,Craving Beauty is the first installment of the epic Wylder Tales Series!Nineteen-year-old Vynasha’s life is no fairy tale. The fire that killed her sisters was…

Title: The Duke’s Secret Cinderella Author: Eva Devon Publisher: Entangled Publish Date: February 21, 2023 Age Range: 18 + Genres: Historical Romance Summary: Cinderella meets Ever After in this witty and lively historical romance from USA Today bestseller Eva Devon. Charlotte Browne could just kick herself. What on earth possessed her to tell the Duke of Rockford that she is a lady? But…

2023 Resoultions and Goals

Post 52 blog posts this year – I want to grow my blog’s following this year and I want to make more time to create blog posts. Get better at scheduling time to work on content creation at college – I noticed when I transferred schools this yea it got harder for me to take pictures and record videos. Get paid for some posts and promotions – I started looking at options to get payment for some…

2022 Goals Wrap Up!

AS 2022 comes to a close here were my goals this year! Start a bookstagram engagement group – I have wanted to start an engagement group of students for some time. It would be a group with all types of students (high school, college, etc. ). There are many engagement groups but I have never found one dedicated to students. — I started this group, and we had some fun times but the engagement…

Great or Nothing Review

Title: Great or Nothing Author: Joy McCullough, Caroline Tung Richmond, Jessica Spotswood, and Tess Sharpe Publisher: Delacorte Press Published Date: March 8, 2022 Age Range: 12 + Review: Thank you to Netgalley and the author for the review copy in exchange for a review. I really liked this retelling of Little Women. I liked how each author wrote for a different sister and loved the poetry…

How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) Review

Title: How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) Author: Cristina Fernandez Publisher: Harper Collins Published Date: August 2, 2022 Age Range: 15 Genres: Contemporary Superhero Radiance: Glitter (4 stars) Summary: With humor and heart, a story proving that you don’t need a superpower to be the hero and a romantic coming-of-age story about growing up, falling in love, and surviving…

Tips for Moving into College + Tips for college

As I get ready to head back for my sophomore year of college I wanted to share more tips for what helped me when I was in my dorm room last year. This is not a complete list just some important things that you might like to think about when creating the checklist for your dorm essentials. Things to Bring (That I forgot): ALL YOUR CHARGERS — I actually forgot to bring my watch charger and it…

Title: Always My Dutchess Author: Amalie Howard Publisher: Forever (Grand Central Publishing) Published Date: July 12, 2022 Age Range: 18 and up Genres: Romance, Historical Fiction Oh my God, That book was excellent!!! The Romance, the tension, and the banter in this book were absolutely amazing. Always My Dutchess starts off with our two main characters Neve (or Genevieve) and Stone or…

Poem about The Story Teller

Once there was a maiden who loved anyone and everyone She was even friends with the old witch down by the ruin. The maiden was strong, and she was clever, and she was a storyteller Over the years she met with a cottage dweller That cottage was cracked and covered with nicks The woman who lived there was a witch The witch believed in the girl and the girl grew from her praise One fair day,…

Original Fairy Tale – The Story Teller – Draft 1

Once upon a time, there was a forest, and in this forest, there was a town on a river. Theforest was said to be home to many magical creatures. This town was small, and the minds of thetown folk were too. They thought that up was up and that was up it could be but, in that village,there was one soul who saw up as a pathway to the stars. She was a girl who loved stories andsaw a story in the most…

Tips for Bookstagram in College

Take a few hours on a weekend to take pictures and edit them Schedule pictures and posts when Have a box of small props that you can store somewhere and take them out for easy access I brought my camera for pictures but you can use your phone and that works just fineIf you want your roommate out of the room you can always ask or wait till they have a class or club – or you can take pics with them…

Tips for Book Blogging in College

Realize you can’t everything by yourself and you need to take some time for yourself – I had this problem in college and I would overwork myself so much that I had no time or energy to do anything creative. Do two things at once- I watch TV while I work on blog posts or I listen to music or books/podcasts, this helped me do many things like if I was listening to something for class and blogging I…

Title: Bravely Author: Maggie Stiefvater Publisher: Disney Press Published Date: May 3, 2022 Age Range: 13 and up Genres: Historical Fantasy and YA Synopsis: Merida goes on an all-new, life-changing adventure in this original YA novel set several years after the close of Brave! What if you had one year to save everything you loved? ONE PRINCESS. Merida of DunBroch needs a change. She…

Freshman Year 2 Wrap Up – emotions, thoughts and updates

I finished my freshman year at the University of Northern Iowa. I am majoring in Interactive Digital Studies with an emphasis in Digital Writing and Digital Advertising. I also have a creative Writing Minor and a Literary Publishing certificate. But this year was not all I expected it to be, and I am considering transferring schools, see the Emotion section of this blog post for more about this…

April Goals Wrap up

Start a bookstagram engagement group – Done Once-a-week Blog Posts (or 52 posts) – I am working on getting caught up on blog posts and posting them!Reels – I have a series of reels filmed and ready to be edited and posted. 1 -2 Bookstagram posts a week – have a ton of pictures taken and I need to write captions for them and the post them.Restart writing my other WIP – This is one of my summer…

This is my post during the blog tour for The Glass Stone by Sara Michaels. The Glass Stone is a magical tale of hope and love inspired by the traditional story of Cinderella. Sometimes, just a little bit of magic is all you need to change the world. This blog tour is organized by Lola’s Blog Tours and the tour runs from 5 till 25 April. You can see the tour schedule here. The Glass Stone (The…