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A review by gouricanread
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
4.0
I read Alice Oseman's Solitaire almost 5 years ago. I liked it at the time but I wouldn't say that I was a fan. I decided to read Radio Silence after hearing Kat (Paperbackdreams on YouTube) talk about it in her videos.
I have to admit that I loved the book. I love how realistic the author has made it. It explores a lot of important issues and not in a way that makes it look like it's trying hard to do so. The main character is Frances. She is a little bit like all of us. She is someone who did not make me want to punch myself on the face multiple times. Moreover, someone who did not take up the whole narrative, which is something, I feel, a lot of young adult books are lacking when it comes to protagonists.
The book is based on the problems of the educational system. The pressure and the competition that students battle everyday through exams, authority figures as well as family. This was something that I could relate to, a lot. The author made sure that it was not exaggerated. A lot of us have studied something for years thinking it's what we want, only to realize later on that we couldn't even figure ourselves out as individuals or know what we really need in the first place because we were too busy with the rat-race.
I loved the relationships in the book. It has beautifully captured the platonic relationship and doesn't spend much time rambling over whether or not the two main(relatively) characters in the book (don't worry,not a spoiler) will end up together. The relationship that Frances has with her mother is also something that I adored.
What made the book different from anything I have read recently in this genre is the fact that everything the characters in the book did had very realistic consequences, which is something I appreciate a lot. Whenever someone reads a book and start loving it, I feel like, we get attached to a characters or start admiring them and it's always the best to make them flawed. It makes us feel like it's okay not to have it together all the time and that things can always turn out to be better if we keep working hard. Thank you, Alice Oseman, for putting a good book out there for us to read.
Overall, the book is amazing. I urge you to read it. It doesn't make you wanna saliva vomit or choke yourself to death when you read it. It makes you wanna smile and read more.
P.S.
I didn't share much of the plot here because I don't wanna take anything away from your reading experience. I believe that reviews are takeaways that they have or personal comments on how someone feels after reading a book. Anyone can find the blurb or the plot online and some people like diving right into it without knowing a thing.
I have to admit that I loved the book. I love how realistic the author has made it. It explores a lot of important issues and not in a way that makes it look like it's trying hard to do so. The main character is Frances. She is a little bit like all of us. She is someone who did not make me want to punch myself on the face multiple times. Moreover, someone who did not take up the whole narrative, which is something, I feel, a lot of young adult books are lacking when it comes to protagonists.
The book is based on the problems of the educational system. The pressure and the competition that students battle everyday through exams, authority figures as well as family. This was something that I could relate to, a lot. The author made sure that it was not exaggerated. A lot of us have studied something for years thinking it's what we want, only to realize later on that we couldn't even figure ourselves out as individuals or know what we really need in the first place because we were too busy with the rat-race.
I loved the relationships in the book. It has beautifully captured the platonic relationship and doesn't spend much time rambling over whether or not the two main(relatively) characters in the book (don't worry,not a spoiler) will end up together. The relationship that Frances has with her mother is also something that I adored.
What made the book different from anything I have read recently in this genre is the fact that everything the characters in the book did had very realistic consequences, which is something I appreciate a lot. Whenever someone reads a book and start loving it, I feel like, we get attached to a characters or start admiring them and it's always the best to make them flawed. It makes us feel like it's okay not to have it together all the time and that things can always turn out to be better if we keep working hard. Thank you, Alice Oseman, for putting a good book out there for us to read.
Overall, the book is amazing. I urge you to read it. It doesn't make you wanna saliva vomit or choke yourself to death when you read it. It makes you wanna smile and read more.
P.S.
I didn't share much of the plot here because I don't wanna take anything away from your reading experience. I believe that reviews are takeaways that they have or personal comments on how someone feels after reading a book. Anyone can find the blurb or the plot online and some people like diving right into it without knowing a thing.