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[[File:audrey-wait_71.png|frame|It's the [[Ear Worm|song everyone's singing]]]]
{{quote|''It's the [[Ear Worm|song everyone's singing]]. And it's about her! But for Audrey, becoming famous overnight equals total, life-changing disaster...''|The [[Tagline]] on the novel cover.}}▼
▲''It's the [[Ear Worm|song everyone's singing]]. And it's about her! But for Audrey, becoming famous overnight equals total, life-changing disaster...''
{{quote|'''Audrey''': If there is any justice in the world, the first major meteorite to ever strike the Earth will score a direct hit on the [[Burger Fool|Scooper Dooper]].}}
''[[Audrey, Wait!]]'' is a charming [[Coming of Age Story]] by [https://web.archive.org/web/20121209050326/http://www.robinbenway.com/my_weblog/ Robin Benway] about a girl in California who breaks up with her musician boyfriend... causing him to write a [[Break Up Song|hit single about their break up that]] ''sweeps the globe.'' Suddenly her ex-boyfriend is famous, and she's reluctantly pulled along in the wake of his success. Her best friend Victoria (and her boyfriend, Jonah) help her through the initial shock of fame, through thick and thin as the paparazzi and frenzied public complicate their lives.
[[It Got Worse|It gets worse]] when Audrey gets a chance to go back stage at a concert with a favourite band of hers, where a short fling with a famous singer ends badly. Now the media is twisting the events to paint her as the next Britney Spears, and her phone/personal email flood with nasty accusations from the general public. Things continue to snowball from there as Audrey grapples to hold on to her friends and finally get the tabloid writers away from her and her family.
The novel is written as though it were her factual recount of the events that led to her fame. The narration is [[First-Person Smartass|laid back, easy going, generally quite humorous]], and littered with all sorts of pop culture and new media references.
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* [[Accidental Hero|Accidental Heroine]]: Sort of. While inspiring a catchy song is hardly ''heroic'', the media still plays it up for all it’s worth.
* [[Adorkable]]: James, full stop. Even Audrey, to an extent.
* [[Afraid of Blood]]: Audrey's mom.
* [[Ahem]]: The secretary does this a few times when Audrey’s {{spoiler|isolated from the rest of the school to minimise fame-related interruptions.}} Audrey tries to stretch out her bathroom visits and chats-through-the-window with friends as long as she can.
* [[All First
{{quote|''Victoria paused and I could tell she was trying not to smile. "Did you just say frolic?" ''
'' (Audrey) "Is it not a word?"''
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* [[The Bechdel Test]]: Passes with flying colours. While the females do talk about boys (they’re ''teenagers''), they also talk about reality TV, the entertainment industry and music. In fact they probably talk more about music than anything else in the novel, which [[Author Appeal|makes sense given the author’s obsession with it.]]
* [[Beta Couple]]: Victoria and Jonah
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Without meaning to, Audrey ends up as the Betty to Sharon's Veronica twice. She wins both times.
** The media also makes Audrey the Archie to the various guys she hooks up with (Evan vs Simon, Simon vs James, James vs Evan) despite the fact there's actually no triangle overlap.
* [[Beware the Honest Ones]]: MTV probably regrets getting Audrey on live, national TV.
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* [[Understanding Boyfriend]]: James is extremely patient with Audrey as she copes with her fame problem.
** Jonah for Victoria
* [[Unwanted Harem]]: Sharon is this for both Evan and James, who only want to date Audrey.
* [[Wasn't That Fun?]]: James’ and Audrey’s first date, despite being a disaster by most people’s standards, ends quite well with both of them agreeing the chaos was rather interesting.
* [[When It All Began]]: When Evan performed ''The Song.''
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