![]() Alice has this way of rounding out even the smallest characters and turning them into something great. The same can apply for Aled and every other character, but I’ll get to that in a moment. As I mentioned before, a narrator needs an interesting voice to be able to capture the attention of an audience, and to me her voice never got boring – I never felt as though a scene was taking too long or moving too quickly. She was relatable and quirky in a way that didn’t feel played out. I’ll admit that he fact she was a mixed-race character and also bisexual were what initially sparked my interest in this story, but that is only a fraction of why I loved her. The thing about a good story is it doesn’t have to be poetic or have an immense amount of metaphors – it just needs a main character with a voice that can captivate you, and that is what I found in Radio Silence.įrances was fantastic to read from the point of view of. There is something so honest about Alice Oseman’s writing that I always fall in love with her characters. ![]() Unfortunately, it also means that she has to deal with some pretty heavy consequences and finally open up about why Carys disappeared. Around the same time she meets Aled Last, the twin brother of her old friend, Carys, and rediscovers the side of herself she’d been keeping secret for so long. For years, she has been a devoted fan of a Welcome To Night Vale-like podcast on YouTube known as Universe City – and out of the blue, she is asked to be a part of the production making art for each episodes. Head girl and all-round study machine Frances’ main goal since she was a little girl was to make it into Cambridge university, however there is a side to Frances that she never lets anyone at her school see. Though it is not a direct sequel to her debut novel, Solitaire, it is set in the same village following teenager Frances Janvier. Released February 2016, Radio Silence is the second young adult novel written by British author Alice Oseman.
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