1/14/2024 0 Comments Radio silence![]() Aled is such a realistic character, and his mental illness is something that I think is so relatable to so many younger people (I want to say millennials so badly) and this book is going to mean so much to so many people. Obviously, I’m not going to pretend that my experience is the end all be all, but mental illnesses are something you have to live with and fight with constantly. I do think that Radio Silence is a story about becoming who you want to be, even if you don’t know who that person is yet, but I also think it’s a story about living with mental illness. I truly believe books can have healing powers, and Radio Silence healed some of my wounds that I thought stopped bleeding years ago. And I swear to God, I turned the last page of this book and felt lighter. But this is a love letter about making the weight not feel so heavy. Like, I promise, it feels so heavy sometimes still. Society’s expectations, your parent’s expectations, your academic leader’s expectations, all of this can feel like the weight of the world on your shoulders. It’s okay to not know what you want, or who you even are, but you have to live your life for you. Radio Silence is a book about living your life for you. And I’ve never read a book that confronts that the way Radio Silence does. And that’s not just a reality for me, that’s a reality for so many people I know. But those core parts of my life were picked for me, and they have and will continue to impact my life forever. And I’m very privileged to have the education I have had, to go the college I went to, and to have the job that I currently have. The job I currently have? Because of that degree, not because of my wishes or wants. My degree? My parents picked because science degrees get you jobs. They knew before I was born I’d go to that college. And I’m going to be really real with you all for a minute. We live in a world where our society puts so much pressure on kids to go to college. The parallels are endless, and I’m not here to be negative about Fangirl, but I only thought that story was okay, where Radio Silence touched my heart and spoke to my soul. Hell, they even break up the mainstream story with stories from the fandom they love. Both of these books even focus on fandoms and hidden identities. Both of these stories are about kids going into college, unsure of what they want out of life, both feeling like outcasts that can never truly be themselves. “This hardly qualifies as a distress call anymore-by gods, if anyone was listening, I would have heard from you by now.”įirst off, I want to talk about how people always hail Fangirl as the book they related to going into college, but I think Radio Silence does everything Fangirl does, but a million times better and more relatable. Trigger and content warnings for talk of mental illness, implied depression, implied suicidal thinking, parental abuse, physical abuse, extreme invasions of privacy on social media and the internet, very hateful comments to a creator on the internet, and death of a pet. But this book can get pretty dark in certain places, so please use caution. ➽ Raine – Indian, selfless angel, who is probably queer, too.Īnd these five characters come together in this book and create something so beautiful that I don’t even have words for it. ➽ Carys – Lesbian, Aled’s twin sister who has been missing for a while now. ➽ Daniel – Gay, Korean immigrant, head boy at his high school. ➽ Aled – Gay, demisexual, creator of a up-and-coming podcast and Youtube channel. ![]() ➽ Frances – Bisexual, biracial (Ethiopian and white), head girl at her high school, and an artist. We get to see them bond over a fandom, and we get to see them discover who they wish they could be. But this is a book about a boy and girl and the different stages of their completely platonic friendship. I normally give a brief synopsis about the book I’m reviewing here, but Radio Silence almost feels too personal for me to even type this review, to be completely honest. And holy shit did it blow all my expectations out of the water. So, buckle in, because this is going to be a full-gush review, because this book was everything. Radio Silence is the best contemporary book I’ve ever read. I am, after all, only a voice on a radio, and there may not be anyone listening.” Goodreads | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository
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