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A review by promisedlostboy
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
I read "Eliza and her monsters" before I ever read this book, so when I first started reading the book and began to understand the premise, I was worried that it was just an Eliza clone. Not realising that Radio Silence was released a year before Eliza, and delves into topics deeper and in more interesting ways than Eliza had.
That being said, a book should be reviewed on the basis of it's own content, not another. Radio silence beautifully sidesteps the expected tropes of boy meets girl, to tell a lovely story about the pressures and expectations of youth, the meaning of family, and forms of expression.
If I had one critique of the book it would be that near the end, it kinda gets a bit clunky in the way it talks about certain things, especially since the rest of it was so perfectly woven into the story, that I never questioned it for a moment.
loved this book quite a lot.
That being said, a book should be reviewed on the basis of it's own content, not another. Radio silence beautifully sidesteps the expected tropes of boy meets girl, to tell a lovely story about the pressures and expectations of youth, the meaning of family, and forms of expression.
If I had one critique of the book it would be that near the end, it kinda gets a bit clunky in the way it talks about certain things, especially since the rest of it was so perfectly woven into the story, that I never questioned it for a moment.
loved this book quite a lot.