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What happens when your mind becomes your worst enemy?
Convinced that she will live her best life in college, Reign decides to pack up and leave her small Michigan town for Illinois. Upon freshman year, Reign quickly learns that not everything that glitters is gold. The fight of her life begins now.

About the series:
The topic of mental health is often taboo in the black community. Often harboring distrust in the medical community, African Americans are less likely to seek help for mental health struggles. The Reign Series was created to help normalize the act of asking for mental health help. Reigny Days was penned by author Brittany Baker when she was a junior at Purdue University. The books were written as short, yet powerful reads for college students and readers on the go. The series follows a young black woman with anxiety and major depressive disorder. With the exploration of themes such as mental health, family dynamics, toxic relationships, suicide, consent, etc., this series contains mature content.
Reigny Days is Book I in the series and not a Standalone.

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86 pages
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English
Publication date

August 15, 2018
Reading age

17 - 18 years
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12 and up
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1315 KB
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Editorial Reviews

From the Author

Reigny Days is very near and dear to my heart because it talks about an important topic in the minority community that often gets overlooked , and that is mental health. Many black youth struggle with depression and so not think that their mental health matters, but it does. I wanted to write a book that is relatable, especially to young black women, and to start a dialogue about mental health in our community.

--This text refers to the paperback edition.

About the Author

Brittany Baker is a fictional writer who grew up in the Louisville, Kentucky area. Growing up as an only child, it can get lonely at times. To entertain herself as a child, Brittany would create a fictional world of characters. She penned her first novel series in the 8th grade and became published at the age of 17. Currently, Brittany is a senior in college studying psychological sciences with hopes to work in the mental health field. She continues to write relatable stories full of wisdom, suspense, drama, and a bit of romance. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN : B07GJ6D7KL
Publication date : August 15, 2018
Language : English
File size : 1315 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 86 pages
Lending : Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #1,652,133 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #4,510 in Two-Hour Teen & Young Adult Short Reads
- #12,425 in Black & African American Urban Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #13,277 in Coming of Age Fiction (Kindle Store)

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B. Brown

Engaging, thought-provoking, 21st century read.

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2019

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This book is a true-to-life work. College life, depression, relationships...all come together with a cliffhanger ending. Ready for the sequel.

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Domaneke Wiggins

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Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2020

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This was a great quick read. Well done. Unfortunately I read book 2 first before realizing I was reading out of order. Anyway I’m definitely glad for the deets about Reigns friend and the guilt she was feeling.

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Marilyn Kurtis

An Emotional, Thought Provoking Novella

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2020

Brittany Baker brought to life a very relatable story. It was about the pressures, expectations, and consequences of trying to live up to those expectations a young black girl experienced over the course of her college years. The author's goal for Reigny Days was to define the real dilemma of how mental illness was and still is often ignored and pushed under the rug by members of minority communities. I was immediately drawn into Reign's story. This was the first novella in this series. It was narrated by Lacy Laurel.

Reign's diagnosis of anxiety and major depressive disorder was revealed early on during her freshman year of college. She was attending the University of Illinois and although she was a bright student, her college courses were proving to be more than challenging. Reign was at risk of being put on academic probation when she was finally advised to seek help for her condition. Although Reign learned how to accept and live with her mental illness through prescribed medication and weekly visits to a school psychologist her parents chose not to acknowledge Reign's diagnosis. Her parent's high expectations for her and denial of her diagnosis led Reign to keep her medication and sessions a secret from her parents. Her relationships with various male students during her college years were also often misread by Reign. This caused her emotional distress and anxiety and made her question her choices, decisions and the reality of how she perceived .those relationships.

I was surprised by the abrupt ending of this book until I realized that this was the first in a series of three novellas about Reign, her family and her mental illness. This book was about mental illness and how it takes a back seat in minority communities. It was about family dynamics, friendship, toxic relationships, the reality of college life, suicide, and sexual awareness and coming to terms with it. I anxiously await the sequels to this novella.. I highly recommend it.

I received a complimentary audiobook of Reigny Days by Brittany Baker from Seasons Publishing through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

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STACI M

Depression is real for all ages

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2020

I gave Reigny Days by Brittany Baker Novella a 3.5 stars. Addison Elise "Reign" is struggling when she gets to college to find herself and her ability to be successful in all aspects of her life. Depression was not discussed or accepted in her parents' world so she had to learn about it herself through self-discovery. Finally during her junior year, Reign tried to re-establish herself using coping mechanisms and friends. This is a short story about the realities of life and young people at college when they thought they had everything figured out yet didn't and don't know what to do about it.

I wanted a bit more to the story because it is an important and real situation many people are in. It is worth the read to remind ourselves that we can't ignore conflicts that people have to deal with and hide from even their greatest of friends and family.

Thank you NetGalley and Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Audiobooks for allowing to listen to this book for an honest review.

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Dale

Too short, but a great read!

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2019

I’m a little conflicted about Reigny Days. On the one hand, I found it very engaging and interesting. But on the other, I don’t understand why it was as short as it was when the story was clearly unfinished.

To be fair, from the start I was fairly hooked by the story. It started off without any bangs and whistles, but was instantly relatable. Reign’s experience in college brought me back to my own college days, and reminded me of all the good and the bad times I experienced.

I thought Reign was a great character and her struggles were relatively well-recounted. Initially I liked the pacing of the story, and even though it blazed through two years in the course of nine chapters, it still didn’t really feel rushed, at least until the end, when all of a sudden, a very dramatic and upsetting event occurred that came almost out of nowhere. But I suppose that is how those things happen in real life, so it was meant to feel jarring. It certainly left me reeling.

Overall, I thought the story is well-written as well. It’s told in Reign’s perspective, which is fun and gives a direct insight into her experience, which serves to make her more relatable. I do almost wish the author had used Reign’s speech patterns more freely; there were only a few times when slang was used throughout the course of the narration, and as such it was a little bit surprising when it did appear. It’s almost as if the author was a little shy about using it.

There were also, unfortunately, some typos I found, and some occasions when the writing felt a tad shaky. I also was annoyed not just that the book ended on a cliff hanger—personally, I hate those--, but that it was only 116 pages long—or 56, according to Amazon, but 116 sounds more accurate—and clearly unfinished. There was a lot of room to expand the story and keep the reader engaged, especially with the ending. It seems almost like it was cut off halfway to sell more books, which may not be true, considering book one is (or has been) free on Amazon.

I also wasn’t too jazzed about the final development in the story. To be honest, I don’t care about Reign’s parents so much as I do about her college life and her journey to find herself. I hoped for more of that, but alas I was disappointed because the story ended abruptly, and on a plot point I wasn’t interested in. However, I can see that it might be a devastating development for Reign, and that it could be an interesting addition to the story, albeit a little cliched.

Regardless, I really did enjoy this novella, in spite of its disappointing turn of events. It was refreshing, as a white woman, to read from a black woman’s perspective, and I found the story moving in a fairly deep way. I highly recommend Reigny Days for young adults heading to college and in college, as its relatability will touch you in many ways.

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