Radio Silence: TikTok made me buy it! From the YA Prize winning author and creator of Netflix series HEARTSTOPPER

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Netflix Lands Adaptation Of YA Graphic Novel 'Heartstopper', 'Doctor Who's Euros Lyn To Direct See-Saw-Produced Series". Deadline Hollywood. 20 January 2021. The humours was so good. Most of the book I was cry laughing and there were times when I was reading next to my father and trying so hard not to laugh out loud. Unlike so many other authors who write contemporaries with a focus on teenagers, Alice Oseman understands how to write them realistic and not make them seem forced or it being obvious they were written by an adult. Setting aside the fact that she is an excellent writer and amazing storyteller, she understands teengers so well because she started writting at a very young age, publishing her first book when she was 18 I think and now she is still in her 20s! On 20 May 2022, Netflix announced that the series was being recommissioned for a second and third season. [30] So in this book we follow Frances, a studying machine who is a huge fangirl of a podcast (for a podcast? What is the proper grammar for “fangirl”). She then finds out that a total dweeb named Aled is the one making it, and they become friends and whatnot and are wildly successful and drama ensues or whatever. Aled has a lot of family drama. Things go down. Truly though, Lorraine Sengupta had my heart because her lines were the absolute best. She's a sunshine angel.

Frances discovers from Aled that she can show who she really is through her drawings, as he does with his podcasts. We were so important to each other. We’d tell each other everything and anything. We were each other’s first everything. First and only everything. He’s – he’s an angel.”That's what I thought when I listened to my first podcast episode: it makes you want to fall asleep (in the best way possible). I have never ever found a character in a book that is so much like me at the time. Since then I found so many others, but Aled will always have a special place in my heart due to him being from my all time favourite book. Yes, I said it. Radio Silence is my favourite book of all time. I loved Frances and Daniel too and I related with Frances too, but not nearly as much as Aled. She is way more outspoken while he is just this quiet person, although if he trusts someone or is close to that person he could talk your ear off. If something’s hard, if I have to talk to someone about something difficult, I just avoid it and ignore them, as if that’ll make it go away.” Alice May Oseman (born 16 October 1994) [1] is an English author of young adult fiction. She [a] secured her first publishing deal at 19 and had her first novel Solitaire published in 2014. [2] Her novels include Radio Silence, I Was Born for This, and Loveless. She wrote and illustrated the webcomic Heartstopper, which has been published as multiple graphic novels and which she adapted into a TV series, earning her a BAFTA TV Award nomination and two Children's and Family Emmy Awards as both a writer and producer. Her novels focus on contemporary teenage life in the UK and have received the Inky Awards.

Like, it’s one of the reasons that I got so into Universe City in the first place. Because Radio falls in love with all sorts of people, boys and girls and other genders and … like, aliens and stuff.” I laughed and he smiled too. Radio Silence is a book I've seen promoted around, especially by my friendos Amelie and Tasha and I expected to enjoy it but what I didn't expect was to fall down a radio silence hole never to be seen again I thought I was born for this is my fav y/a book , but no this surpassed that one but I am happy because they all are from same author! Book Review: Radio Silence (Alice Oseman) – Maia and a Little Moore". maiaandalittlemoore.com. Archived from the original on 15 May 2018 . Retrieved 29 July 2016.

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I also loved how they slowly became good friends, it's one of my favorite things to read about in books: You are.” He stretched out his arm and patted me on the head. “And I’m platonically in love with you.” Most importantly, this book is SO EFFORTLESSLY DIVERSE. Frances is bisexual. Aled is asexual and gay. (This is technically something that is revealed later on in the story, but I don’t like treating sexuality like a spoiler generally. Ace representation especially is SO RARE and v important. So I’m not going to, like, hide that from you guys. It’s not even a huge reveal. It’s just character growth and recognition and whatnot.) Frances is also half-Ethiopian and has a single mother, as does Aled, I think. It’s all just very good. All YA should be as easily inclusive as this. It makes for a much richer story. Aled decides to restart Universe City. The book ends with Aled performing Universe City live at Live!Video. All my friends were white, every kind of TV show that I watched, the books I read, the characters were always white. It didn’t occur to me that it would be important but now I know better. And that’s one of the things I was interested in combatting with Radio Silence.”