Most teens have felt the struggle of academically achieving versus doing what you want with your own life, but Radio Silence takes it, gives it to Frances and makes it into something relatable and interesting to read about. This book takes so many themes that every teenager faces, and crafts them into a story in such a great way that everyone in some way can relate to this story. Oseman has captured the unique pressures faced by teenagers, from school, what happens after school, relationships (but not necessarily those for love, mind you) and she’s thrown them all into this novel. If she hadn’t already done it with Solitaire, then Oseman has definitely nailed the teenage voice with Radio Silence, and not only has she nailed it, she’s blown it out of the water. It’s time for Frances, and Aled, to listen to their own voices. And it’s only by being your true self that you can find happiness. It’s only by facing up to your fears that you can overcome them.

Then the podcast goes viral, and the trust is broken.

He asks her to start making the official art for the show, and he’s found the real Frances, who is unafraid to be herself. Then she finds out Aled is behind the internet podcast that she’s been a fan of and drawing fan art about under the name Toulouser online for years. I read it within two days, and I wasn’t disappointed.įrances Janvier has always been, and seemingly always will be, a complete study machine, with the single aim of getting into the elite university she’s always dreamed of. Oseman is a talented writer, and so when Radio Silence was announced, and I managed to get hold of an early manuscript of it, I was naturally very excited. It had a great storyline, characters that you wanted to know more about and a setting every reader could relate to in some way. Whilst I did say I didn’t find it ‘amazingly good’, I did think it was pretty great. Way back in 2014, I reviewed Solitaire, Alice Oseman’s first novel.

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