Fun New Idea  from: That’s a Novel Idea, It will work like this: Each Saturday You will post the answer to these questions. The number indicates the number of answers you will provide.

1 Book you read and/or reviewed this week
2 Words that describe the book
3 Settings it took place or characters you met
4 Things you liked and/or disliked about it
5 Stars or less for your rating?

1 Book Read: Audrey, Wait by Robin Benway

2 Words to Describe it: Fantastically Frantic

3 Places and/or Characters: Audrey, unintentionally famous due to her ex-boyfriend’s catchy song (*that recounts their their breakup and generally bashes her) and not loving the fame one bit.  Victoria, BFF to Miss Audrey, who thinks Audrey should stop complaining and start soaking in the fame (free stuff!) and James, sweet guy who works at Scooper Dooper (ice cream shoppe) with Audrey, is a bit OCD about the ice cream cones and can drive like James Bond when needed.

4 Things I liked or disliked:
1. I liked the realism of the characters, even BG characters like Victoria’s boyfriend Jonah had solid characterization/distinct personalities.

2. Music Obsessed and hyped up Victoria reminded me of one of my college pals, so, while the story was HS based it brought me right back to college, and the few concerts she dragged me too.  She would have been all over this OMG BOY WROTE A SONG ABOUT YOU, EVEN IF HE IS TRASHING YOU, IT’S SORTA AWESOME!!! Ah, College…

3. Someone complained about too many F bombs at goodreads, but actually I think it was authentic, teens and 20-somethings are pretty random about when the cuss words fly, reading the book was a bit like talking to my 22 year old brother actually.

4. It was seriously funny, I don’t usually laugh out loud when I read, but this book switched between the asburdly funny over the top situations (at the concert, and record store for example) to the normal/random/funny life of the American teenager. Most of the humor came from Audrey’s Sarcasm and the verbal quips back and forth between characters, even the parents were well written and funny in this book! Audrey and James together were witty (and yes, super cute), which made me love them, and not want to bang my head on the desk like some lovely dovey teen books.

5 Stars or Less? I’d day 4.5 Stars, if you like YA contempary fiction you’d probably find this cute and well written. If you don’t read YA you might think the characters’ interactions are funny, but the situation and teen drama might not appeal.  I enjoy to be amused, so it worked very well for my Summer Reading

Want to know more about Audrey, Wait? Check out the official website to read the first an excerpt