![]() ![]() For example, she wishes that she had her father’s Ethiopian last name instead of her mother’s white last name so she could feel closer to her Ethiopian ethnicity. Some thoughts of Frances were actual things I have thought myself. Many parts and aspects about her I could relate too, like how she portrays herself differently in front of different people, which I believe many people do to some degree. Sometimes it was as if Oseman had plucked thoughts from my head and implemented it into Frances’ thoughts. It is something that needs to be portrayed more in books instead of just assuming that every female and male character will end up together.įrances, I found, was an enjoyable and relatable protagonist. I love the route Oseman decided to take with Radio Silence and how she portrayed male and female platonic friendship. Frances even frankly states this in a chapter that she and Aled will not fall in love just because they are of opposite genders. Aled is a boy and Frances is a girl, but that doesn’t mean that they need to fall in love. The friendship between Aled and Frances was spell-binding, a perfect mix of weirdos together with similar interests. One of my favourite aspects is that this is one of the few books, if the only one, where the protagonist doesn’t have a love interest and is perfectly happy with that. But once I got further along in the plot and got used to the first person, I found myself being unable to put the book down. It’s a rather slow-paced book and the first person narrative threw me off for a second since I had grown accustomed to reading in third person. ![]() When I first started reading I underestimated how much I ended up enjoying this book. I started reading the book with absolutely no expectations and very little information as to what the book was about. This is a story about Frances Janvier, a half-European, half-Ethiopian bisexual teenage girl and her friendship with Aled Last.Īs a teenager myself reading this book, I found that I could strongly identify with the characters and the challenges they faced. It is an #ownvoices novel that showcases a variety of different sexualities, realistic coming outs, and fleshed out characters. While there are still some characters that don’t support LGBTQIA+, the majority of the characters accept it, taking into account the time period and country. The story is set around the present day time. Will they rekindle their friendship, or will it crumble to pieces? But when Aled’s secret identity is revealed, their friendship is tested, and France’s vision of her future starts to become blurry. ![]() He may be even Frances’s first real friend. Through working on the podcast together, Aled and Frances become friends. After getting offered to be the artist for Universe City, a coincidence leads her to meet the creator himself, Aled Last. But behind her studious and serious nature, Frances has another side to her, one that loves weird clothes, art, and is obsessed with the infamous (and fictional) podcast Universe City. Radio Silence is about Frances Janvier, a teenage girl who has one goal in life, to get into the University of Cambridge. I am reading from a similar perspective being born and raised in Canada also in the 20th century. Radio Silence is based in Kent, England in the 20th century. Personally, I think that anyone, ages 12 and up, can read this book. Alice Oseman is a queer author who has written one book previous to Radio Silence, Solitaire. Radio Silence is a contemporary young adult fiction novel written by Alice Oseman and winner of the 2017 Inky awards which can be found here. Their problems and hidden depths can relate to the definition of the term radio silence. Frances’s hidden self, Aled’s pain, Daniel’s confusion about his relationship with Aled, and Carys’ disappearance. In some ways, they are being silent about something that they have trouble sharing with even those that care the most about them. Each character in their own way is hiding something. The title Radio Silence in a nutshell would be the name of Aled Lasts’ alias for his podcast Universe City. It’s only now, after having read the full book, that I remember a certain English lesson where we had to analyze a book title before we read it and all the information you can get about a book just by looking at the title. When I first looked at the title, I could only remember faint remnants of the definition, a time during which it’s only silence.
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