Place a hold on a physical copy, audio CD, eBook, or audiobook of Radio Silence. The book shows that school is not everything, and there are many options out there for what to do with your life. I think that’s a powerful message, especially for teenagers who have to make important decisions regarding where they want to go to college and what they want to study. In a world determined to shut them up, knock them down, and set them on a cookie cutter life path, Frances and Aled struggle to find their voices over the. Radio Silence ’s message is that it’s okay to not know who you are or what you want to do. The book shows that friendships are not perfect, but they are worth sticking around for. The themes of friendship are also relatable, and at many points in the book I found myself comparing my experiences with friends to what Frances and Aled were going through. I think that these are pretty common problems for people my age, which is why I would recommend it to other high schoolers. The story was personally relatable, as I too have struggled with self-identity and finding people with whom I can be my true self. BookBrowse Review Radio Silence, in which a high school senior tries to keep his identity as the creator and host of a popular YouTube video podcast a secret, has some good character building and pacing but ultimately very low stakes that make it hard to care about anything that happens.'- Matt Grant Other Reviews 'Starred Review. Despite them being close friends, their relationship is not perfect and things still go wrong. They never fight or get into misunderstandings. Too often, best friends in the media are portrayed as perfect people who understand each other completely. There are many raw moments in the book where their friendship gets rocky, which ended up making the book feel much more real. In a world determined to shut them up, knock them down, and set them on a cookie cutter life path, Frances and Aled struggle to find their voices over the. Frances and Aled are not perfect, nor is their friendship. The way in which friendship is depicted throughout the book is accurate and realistic.
For once, she has someone that she relates to and who knows her well. After she meets Aled, the creator of the podcast, she finally has a friendship in which she feels truly like herself. Frances struggles to make friends at school because she is seen as a purely academic person, when in reality she’s just a regular teenager.
The book has strong themes of friendship and self-identity. Radio Silence follows their friendship, as well as Frances’s struggle to find out what she wants to do after high school. She’s obsessed with a science fiction podcast, then coincidentally meets the creator of said podcast. Review written by Sophia Hackett, 2020 MBSYEP Employee Alice Oseman’s Radio Silence is about a teenager named Frances, who is high achieving and convinced her future lies in academics, even though she has a passion for art and doesn’t care for going to university.