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Line 2: [[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.}}▼ {{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]].}}▼ ▲''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\| -- The log line on the novel cover.}}~~ ''[[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.▼ ▲{{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 [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. ----▼ ~~=== Audrey, Wait! contains examples of: ===~~ ▲---- {{tropelist}} * [[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 -Person Narrators Write Like Novelists]]: [[Lampshaded]] throughout the book, usually by pointing out “PSAT words”. The lampshading even snuck into some dialogue: {{quote\| ''Victoria paused and I could tell she was trying not to smile. "Did you just say frolic?" ''~~<br />~~ '' (Audrey) "Is it not a word?"''~~<br />~~ ''"Who the hell says 'frolic'?"'' }} * [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Blissfully averted. Neither James nor Evan are particularly “bad”, and the one bad boy {{spoiler\|Simon}} only caught her attention because she thought he was nice at first. Line 33 ⟶ 31: * [[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. Line 39 ⟶ 37: * [[Birds of a Feather]]: Her and James are both ''huge'' music nuts, going so far as to spend a night [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming\|cuddling while throwing pennies at her collage wall and naming songs from every band the coin hit.]] * [[Burger Fool]]: How Audrey introduces her day job. And it is [[Crowning Moment of Funny\|hilarious.]] {{quote\| Okay. I've been trying to avoid this part, but it's not a secret anymore. It's true. I work at an ice cream shop - excuse me, "shoppe" - at the mall. That in itself is not so bad, except for three things: 1) I hate the mall; 2) I hate all the customers; and 3) I'm forced to wear a bright pink hat and T-shirt and say... are you ready for this?~~<br />~~ ~~<br />~~ [[Inherently Funny Words\|Scooper Dooper.]] }} * [[Cats Are Mean]]: Subverted with Bendomolena. Granted, the cat's sheer apathy for all things living means she doesn't really have any capacity to be nice either. Just indifferent. Line 57 ⟶ 56: * [[The First Cut Is the Deepest]]: Probably not helped by the fact that her [[Break Up Song]] is world renown. * [[First-Person Smartass]]: Used to entertaining effect. * [[The Friend Nobody Likes]] / [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Tizzy. Subverted in that ''Tizzy'' is the one to comfort Audrey when she's feeling completely alone by giving her a late Christmas gift, {{spoiler\|but [[Zig -Zagging Trope\|zig zagged]] when the gift turns out to be a shirt that says "I liked you better before you sold out" causing Audrey to burst into tears.}} Anyone's guess as to whether Tizzy intended for that or not. * [[Garage Band]]: It’s described that most people in her school are in a band of some kind, though [[Sturgeon's Law\|most of them are crap.]] * [[Give Geeks a Chance]]: Both James and Jonah are described as dorks in the books, {{spoiler\|yet they’re the successful romantic leads.}} Line 77 ⟶ 76: * [[Nice Guys Finish Last]]: Inverted. The nice guys are the ones with the relationships by the end of the book. * [[Noodle Incident]]: Audrey’s father’s pumpkin carving incident. [[Lampshaded]] by Victoria when she sees him carving a pumpkin. {{quote\| '''Victoria''': I thought you weren’t allowed near pumpkins anymore?* [[Not Listening to Me, Are You?]]: This lovely exchange between Audrey and Evan.~~<br />~~ "Hey," I said casually. "Bendomolena's on fire."~~<br />~~ "Cool. So yeah, Jon wants to do a drum solo and we were like, 'Dude, ''no''!'" }} * [[Oh Crap]]: The scene where Victoria realises Evan's going to perform the at-the-time-unknown [[Break Up Song]]. [[It Got Worse]] when the school, the local town and eventually half the known world ''loves it.'' Line 86 ⟶ 85: * [[Poor Communication Kills]]: If Evan had been more insistent on getting Audrey to wait by saying something other than “Audrey, Wait!” the whole story never would have happened. * [[Poster Gallery Bedroom]]: Audrey dedicates an entire wall of her room to her band/music collage. It even becomes and important plot point later on when she and James are cuddling. * [[Relationship -Salvaging Disaster]]: {{spoiler\|Audrey’s interview with MTV.}} * [[Repeat What You Just Said]]: When Victoria informs Audrey of the reality TV offer. * [[Romance -Inducing Smudge]]: An inevitable outcome of the two romantic leads working at an ice cream shoppe. * [[Shipper Onon Deck]]: Victoria and Jonah both egg Audrey on to start something with James, and are beside themselves with glee when she finally does. * [[Testing the Love Interest]]: James claims that he doesn’t want to pick the movies because he always feels like the girls are testing him when they ask him to do this. * [[Think Nothing of It]]: Audrey tries from the very beginning to play down her supposed “contribution” to ‘’The Song.’’ * [[Trade Your Passion for Glory]]: Evan and his band avert this by dropping their old label which was planning to screw them and start over with a new label that would actually enable their ambitions. * [[Twitchy Eye]]: Tizzy, and '''how!''' {{quote\| I swear to God, her eyes were going in two different directions by this point.}} * [[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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