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''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...''

 

 

''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.

* [[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:

''"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.

* [[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.]]

[[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.

* [[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.

"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.''

* [[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!'''

* [[Understanding Boyfriend]]: James is extremely patient with Audrey as she copes with her fame problem.

** Jonah for Victoria