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A review by aidrielle
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
4.0
2ND TIME READING (06/02/2020):
i'm still very very glad i read this the first time when i did!! unfortunately, this time it just didn't quite resonate as much. i reread this in anticipation of the upcoming admissions results from my dream university, because i thought for sure i wouldn't get in and i wanted to revisit frances and aled and raine and daniel and carys because i wanted some comfort, even though their situations are vastly different from mine. ((spoiler alert: i did get in tho!!))
upon this reread, i noticed more of its faults. i noticed how cartoonish of a villain carol last actually is. i noticed how i didn't like how some of the sentences were structured. i noticed how some lines were a little bit cringe-worthy. but!!! i still really love this book. i love love love all of the characters. frances and i are so alike it's almost scary. while i read this to comfort me about my college/university woes, the parts that really stuck out to me were the themes about friendship and just having somebody there to listen to you; how powerful that can be.
tbh i'm just so lonely. i miss having a best friend.
i still think this can be a really important and impactful book especially for people my age!!
PRIOR REVIEW (5 STARS | 11/10/2019):
i could not have read this book at a better time.
i just turned 18 literally 2 days ago. a few months earlier, i took the single most important test in my life, the test that would determine if i can get into my dream university. and just like frances janvier, i completely bombed it. my mind just went completely blank. the results won't be out until april of next year, but i'm already sure that i didn't pass.
as teenagers, university/college life feels like the most important thing in the world. we work so hard for it. i've worked so hard for it. and yet, in the grand grand scheme of things, it really doesn't matter all that much. still--it's hard to look at the grand scheme of things when you're stuck in the present.
reading this book felt amazing. i mean, i didn't really think i'd ever see myself represented quite in this way in any literature at all. no matter how different frances's background is from mine, she was still so so painfully relatable. alice oseman really captured how it feels like to be gen z.
i loved all the characters in this book holy shit??? i want to keep reading about them. i love them all so much. in the books i've been reading lately, the characters haven't stood out as much as i would have wanted. but here, my god. i love them all. they're all my children.
i could not have read this book at a better time.
i'm still very very glad i read this the first time when i did!! unfortunately, this time it just didn't quite resonate as much. i reread this in anticipation of the upcoming admissions results from my dream university, because i thought for sure i wouldn't get in and i wanted to revisit frances and aled and raine and daniel and carys because i wanted some comfort, even though their situations are vastly different from mine. ((spoiler alert: i did get in tho!!))
upon this reread, i noticed more of its faults. i noticed how cartoonish of a villain carol last actually is. i noticed how i didn't like how some of the sentences were structured. i noticed how some lines were a little bit cringe-worthy. but!!! i still really love this book. i love love love all of the characters. frances and i are so alike it's almost scary. while i read this to comfort me about my college/university woes, the parts that really stuck out to me were the themes about friendship and just having somebody there to listen to you; how powerful that can be.
tbh i'm just so lonely. i miss having a best friend.
i still think this can be a really important and impactful book especially for people my age!!
PRIOR REVIEW (5 STARS | 11/10/2019):
i could not have read this book at a better time.
i just turned 18 literally 2 days ago. a few months earlier, i took the single most important test in my life, the test that would determine if i can get into my dream university. and just like frances janvier, i completely bombed it. my mind just went completely blank. the results won't be out until april of next year, but i'm already sure that i didn't pass.
as teenagers, university/college life feels like the most important thing in the world. we work so hard for it. i've worked so hard for it. and yet, in the grand grand scheme of things, it really doesn't matter all that much. still--it's hard to look at the grand scheme of things when you're stuck in the present.
reading this book felt amazing. i mean, i didn't really think i'd ever see myself represented quite in this way in any literature at all. no matter how different frances's background is from mine, she was still so so painfully relatable. alice oseman really captured how it feels like to be gen z.
i loved all the characters in this book holy shit??? i want to keep reading about them. i love them all so much. in the books i've been reading lately, the characters haven't stood out as much as i would have wanted. but here, my god. i love them all. they're all my children.
i could not have read this book at a better time.