Book Review: Radio Silence, Alice Oseman

Radio Silence, Alice Oseman

My rating: 3 stars

What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong?

Frances is a study machine with one goal. Nothing will stand in her way - not friends, not a guilty secret, not even the person she is on the inside. Then she meets Aled, & for the first time she’s unafraid to be herself. 

So when the fragile trust between them is broken Frances is caught between who she was & who she longs to be. Now she knows that she has to confront her past. To confess why Carys disappeared… 

Frances is going to need every bit of courage she has. 

I picked this one up in Southwold Books, Southwold, Suffolk. I’d heard of Alice Oseman thanks to Paperback Dreams on Booktube, who swears by Radio Silence. 

I read this one fairly fast, & it was a wonderful foray back into YA for me. The world Oseman creates in this one is so lovely & wholesome. I basically raced through it. It naturally took me back to my nights after school spent in my pink bedroom, revising for exams & watching YouTube & indulging in my childhood passions. It was sweet to return to that headspace with the help of Frances & Aled. 

The book covers friendship, being yourself, & listening to yourself. The central point: doing what you love is more important than anything. 

The blurb is frankly a terrible set-up for this book, but reading it was excellent. I read it in a few days & I’m glad I finally got round to it. The writing was pretty good but it was mostly the world built that I fell in love with.