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A review by elainabear
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
4.0
Radio Silence managed to put me through a whole bunch of emotions. I related to so much of this story and genuinely felt the pain that Frances was going through. For context, my high school was extremely academically challenging. This had a lot to do with academic pressures set by many of our parents. Therefore, the atmosphere was extremely competitive and there was always the mindset that if so-and-so didn't get into this university or that university and had these OUTSTANDING grades and AP test scores, they were seen as lesser. I had the same mindset as Frances, where I felt like I HAD to be the absolute best at academics or everything would be a waste. Now reading this book after having gone through all of that, the high school grades, the college essays and applications, I truly felt for Frances. She believes that if she doesn't get into Cambridge University, then everything she did would be waste and she wouldn't be worth anything. This was the mindset that a lot of my very close friends and I had. I hated that mindset. I loved seeing Frances slowly learn to break out of what she THINKS she needs to be the best and start doing what she actually loves.
The characters were all extremely fleshed out. They all had their moments where I just wanted to shake them and tell them that to STOP, times when they were being jerks to each other, and other times I just wanted to give them enormous hugs.
I've annotated this book to BITS because there were so many moments that spoke to me and so many quotes I needs to highlight.
That being said, I do have a gripe with this book, and that's the mindset that Frances is just so extremely boring because she's a nerd who doesn't go out to party like "normal teenagers" and hang out with everyone. It's honestly just really tiresome because even Frances mentions how extremely boring and a loser she is. She even says to Aled how she thought he was boring because all he did was academics, before she finds out about the radio show. I don't know, I just don't really like the constant putting down of others that I've seen SO OFTEN in teen media that nerds are all boring losers, blah blah blah. There's no real fighting against this stereotype either, and as someone who has felt all these accusations, it just gives me the ick.
The characters were all extremely fleshed out. They all had their moments where I just wanted to shake them and tell them that to STOP, times when they were being jerks to each other, and other times I just wanted to give them enormous hugs.
I've annotated this book to BITS because there were so many moments that spoke to me and so many quotes I needs to highlight.
That being said, I do have a gripe with this book, and that's the mindset that Frances is just so extremely boring because she's a nerd who doesn't go out to party like "normal teenagers" and hang out with everyone. It's honestly just really tiresome because even Frances mentions how extremely boring and a loser she is. She even says to Aled how she thought he was boring because all he did was academics, before she finds out about the radio show. I don't know, I just don't really like the constant putting down of others that I've seen SO OFTEN in teen media that nerds are all boring losers, blah blah blah. There's no real fighting against this stereotype either, and as someone who has felt all these accusations, it just gives me the ick.