Audrey, Wait! discussion

Audrey Wait, a story about friends and forgiveness, takes place when a girl gets a song written about her and experiences an unexpected chain of events. Through the trials of fame and fan clubs, she learns that she never should’ve blocked her friends out.

The theme of this book would be to never lose sight of what is most important. As Audrey gets more and more publicity due to the very popular song that her ex-boyfriend wrote about her, she begins to live with restrictions like how she can’t answer the door or the phone, and that she can’t go to normal school. With all of these being added onto her normal annoyances, her conversations with friends and family become more and more based on her complaining about life and less and less about what others lives are like. Eventually one of Audrey’s friends, Victoria, gets sick of this and leaves. If Audrey would’ve noticed how ignorant she was being, she wouldn’t have had to figure that out the hard way.

At the beginning of the book Audrey is described as just your average, music-loving teenage girl, but through her difficult trials she becomes a better person. She slowly becomes more and more self-absorbed, making her friends want to be around her less. This leads her to realize that not even paparazzi should keep her from caring about what’s going on with her friend’s lives. Audrey also becomes a more positive and forgiving person due to the song. When she first heard her ex’s song, she gained a deep hatred for him. Near the end of the book however, she realizes that the song isn’t so bad after all and finds that she’s actually really proud of him. As Audrey discovers everything that has happened is actually a blessing in disguise, she develops a new and better personality.

I was very pleasantly surprised with how well Audrey Wait! was written. I find usually that books with the point of view of a teenage mind are completely inacurate about what goes on in our brains. Normally they are way to logical, way too spontaneous, or write the dialogue in a completely stereotypical/airhead way. Audrey Wait! was completely spot on though. I never had to stop and think about how I would have written it instead. This helped me to essentially become the character and read much more smoothly. I was also extremely happy about how clean it was. Granted, there was some swearing, but I was overall happy with how pg the author kept it given in was set in high school. I read this book in two days and would read it again in a heartbeat.