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. 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.
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. Romance is nice and good, but the friendships portrayed in Radio Silence could also exist in the real world.
And what I maybe loved the most, is that everything is about friendship. All of the main characters had a great character arc, developing from awesome to even more awesome. The plot was also great and plausible, made even better through the characters.
It matches with the whole atmosphere of the story. I read the book in two sitting, because it was such a true, fascinating and realistic read and Alice Oseman has a very fitting writing style. I could identify with so much during the whole story, because I’m a lot on the Internet as well, I saw facettes of myself in every character and that’s what made it so real and wonderful to me. A lot oft he story is about the Internet, the good and bad sides it has and everything is so real. The characters are just the way they are, and basically everyone just accepts them as they are, they are normal teenagers living teenagers‘ lives. And though she’s bi and some of her friends are gay or lesbian, this is not a coming out story, but sexuality is just handled like something normal (which it is). The main character is a black, bi girl who is top of her class and obsessed with a Youtube series and she’s just the girl from next door being awesome. There’s gay characters and bi characters and lesbian characters, plus there are POC.
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