She tries to continue about her life after this and she tries to contact Aled again but he doesn't reply. Even when Frances told her that she didn’t want to go to university she was totally okay with it and respected her daughter’s decision!

This book also shines a spotlight on how fucking toxic the internet, fandoms, and just human beings in general can be. And one more thing that just occurred to me: I was really interested in reading about a mixed race character (being mixed race myself) and I thought the representation was. there was just a certain level of disconnect from the characters' struggles given that i'm already out of university and in the real world. It’s no small feat and I really appreciated the idea of a character that’s good at school but also has a very creative streak. I had no idea what all the fuss was about but three years later and countless books in between I finally get it.I'm glad she made the character more diverse, but I also didn't feel that anything was done with it. Detalhe pra quem não está acostumado a comprar edições em paperback em inglês, a qualidade não se compara com as edições brasileiras. It plays with the idea of the internet as a medium that can connect people all over the world but it also illustrates how easy it is to hurt people and their privacy. This book focuses a lot on a fictional podcast and fanart and fandom, and I just found it more cringy than relatable. Frances works out that all these messages (known as the "Letters to February") are actually messages from Aled to Carys.

Perhaps the casual writing adds to the realism of the teenage experience, but it’s too stripped down for my personal tastes, and I wonder if adding a little more flourish to the writing would have helped the story be more evocative and emotional without solely relying on content. This is probably the best contemporary book I ever read and considering it’s a genre I rarely dive into this should tell you enough! Alice Oseman’s writing style in ‘Radio Silence’ is very grounded and authentic - she’s only 21 herself which is absolutely incredible, and in my opinion makes her very relatable to this generation of young readers.Between the constant emotional abuse of his mother and the personal attacks of the fandom it would have been hard for anyone to keep on swimming. It was good to see that we didn't end up having a romance between Aled and Frances just because he is a boy and she is girl. Alice Oseman is a genius and the characters she created, their struggles and friendships, their hopes and dreams, their fears and doubts; they all felt real and more than just a little relatable! This book missed the mark for me, but also helped me solidify the fact that I don't think I enjoy fandom books anymore. Around the same time, she also meets and befriends the maker in real life - Aled Last, a shy boy who’s hiding more than one secret, including a missing sister who Frances used to be friends with.