A review by deepthoughtbubble
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

“Hello.
I hope somebody is listening.”

absolutely beautiful. 

I have no words.

okay. fine.

this started off on a great foot. I wasn't extremely interested around the middle of the story, but it picked up again in the end.

the writing wasn't extremely complex, but that only made it feel more real, more about a group of teenagers just entering university, entering the defined "age of adulthood." 

I loved the dialogue of the characters, how relatable the characters felt, and, well, quotes such as these:

“It must be useful to be smart," she said and then laughed weakly. She glanced down and suddenly looked very sad. "I'm like, constantly scared I'm going to be a homeless or something. I wish our whole lives didn't have to depend on our grades.”

"I think by now, February, we’ve, as they say, ‘lost touch’. Not that we ever touched in the first place. In the end I’m still only ever looking where you’ve looked, I’m only ever walking where you’ve walked, I’m in your dark blue shadow and you never seem to turn around to find me there.

I wonder sometimes whether you’ve exploded already, like a star, and what I’m seeing is you three million years into the past, and you’re not here any more. How can we be together here, now, when you are so far away? When you are so far ago? I’m shouting so loudly, but you never turn around to see me. Perhaps it is I who have already exploded.

Either way, we are going to bring beautiful things into the universe."

"'And I was so... I thought I was so smart. I thought I was the smartest person in the whole world.'
He shook his head.
'But now...I'm just... when you get to this age, you realize that you're not anyone special after all.'
He was right. I wasn't special.
'It's ... all I've got,' he said. 'This is the only special thing about me.'"

the fact that

the public only finds radio silence's identity through those green shoes really say something.  Something so inconsequential, revealing everything. Something belonging to one person, telling everyone everything.