It’s not that Aled doesn’t want to be known and recognised for what he does, it’s that he can’t. Dressing how they want and sharing the same interests, the two of them become almost inseparable until Aled’s secret gets out. The relationship between Frances and Aled blossoms and both find themselves being so wholeheartedly genuine around each other. His only piece of personal heaven is Radio Silence, a radio show where he can be as himself as he likes, anonymously. To avoid spoilers, I will say that due to abuse and trauma, Aled has closed himself off to everyone and everything he could become in order to please someone else. Okay… yeh I do want to protect the poor troubled boy! leave me alone. She and her mum are BFFs and she has a passion that she loves and amazing grades in school the only thing that let her down was her inability to be true to herself outside of her home environment.Īled is trapped. I want to talk about her but she had no flaws. I love how Alice uplifts her side characters and allows everyone to have a personality, a piece of the action and an impact in the lives of the MCs.įrances.
There is this real distinct separation between who the main characters/ characters that will be making an impact in this novel are, and the side characters/ those who push the main characters into action. Although this book is told in the first person, it felt like everyone we met was the main character.
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I had read the Heartstopper series before reading this one and that helped place the story within Alice Oseman’s universe and also know where we were along the timeline.Īgh! If there is anything I love more than Alice’s ability to write perfect relationships, it is her ability to link her novels together into the same universe. Then I wanted to get this out on Tuesday and- in short, I’m very exhausted but I worked hard on this review xxx REVIEW! Haven’t done that in a while so I let myself sleep.
I was going to write this after I finished work last Monday but as I started typing, I fell asleep almost immediately. I’ve officially finished training for work, got accredited and am now working full-time! I guess by now you’re all probably used to my reviews being, well… not on Monday… the day I have them scheduled for (oops). To confess why Carys disappeared…įrances is going to need every bit of courage she has.Įngaging with themes of identity, diversity and the freedom to choose, Radio Silence is a tor de force by the most exciting writer of her generation. Now Frances knows that she has to confront her past. So when the fragile trust between them is broken, Frances is caught between who she was and who she longs to be. Then Frances meets Aled, and for the first time she's unafraid to be herself. Nothing will stand in her way not friends, not a guilty secret – not even the person she is on the inside. What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong?įrances has been a study machine with one goal. Her novels are always about saving someone and rarely about romantic love.
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Her other novels are Soltaire, I Was Born For This and Loveless plus two novellas, Nick and Charlie, a spin-off from Solitaire and This Winter, a spin off from Heartstopper.If there is anything I’ve gathered from reading every Alice Oseman novel to date, it is that she writes from a point of passion. Graphic novels have been optioned for television. It has been translated into ten other languages, including French, Polish, and Hebrew.Īlice Oseman has published novels, ebooks and a series of graphic novels. Her books have been praised for their diversity and inclusion of different gender identities, ethnicities, and sexualities, and because characters and relationships, not just romance, are usually at the centre of them. Radio Silence won the Inky award in 2017. For Radio Silence Oseman drew heavily on her own experiences of education and the pressures and expectations that she felt went with it. The characters from Solitaire make a cameo appearance in Radio Silence, and a number of her stories cross over in this way. She got her first publishing deal at 17 and her first novel, Solitaire, was published when she was 19. But when she meets Aled, the creator of her favourite podcast, she learns that there are other ways to go through life.Īlice Oseman writes young adult novels that authentically portray the lives of 21 stĮxplores identity and friendship, the pressure to succeed and the courage it can take to work out who you really are.Īlice Oseman was born in Kent in 1994. All she wants is to go to a top university. Frances is focused entirely on her education.