Finding Audrey

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It is something not anyone should ever do, and in the real life the consequences could be really bad (trust me, I know). It is a light-hearted read that deals with a topic like mental illness so nicely and respectfully that I was truly overwhelmed. and commence the crazy acts, from finding inventive ways to get around the ban from playing, to restoring to the most extreme actions, like his mom throwing a €1,100 laptop out the window to finally get her son's attention (This isn't the spoiler, the book opens up with this exact scene). As I started to tell Audrey's story, it became apparent that I was telling a story which would appeal to young adults, and it turned into a young adult book.

An incident which started all this keeps getting referred to, and even Audrey hints at it, almost tauntingly, but it's never explained! Her mother was the typical "video games are bad for you and you need to play outside because that's what I did when I was younger" except exaggerated TIMES A THOUSAND. This is such a nice read that anyone willing to read something light and not intense can certainly go for it. I had some bad episodes, yes, and I had some minor setbacks, but I wasn't going to let that stop me. At the beginning of the book, Audrey needs to wear sunglasses and can't leave the house because of her anxiety.On the advice of Doctor Sarah, Audrey documents her everyday life so that we see more than a third person view of Audrey. I've seen a lot of reviews suggest that Audrey recovers "too quickly" which I personally disagree with. Some of the anxiety lines made me tear up out of accuracy, and Frank's video game obsession mirrored how actual hardcore gamers are.

In Finding Audrey, Sophie Kinsella chose to take route b and for me personally this worked very well.So, yeah, I was expecting this book to be good rep and hopefully give me some sort of comfort and a story to look to for hope when my anxiety got the best of me. Her anti-video game mom, her lovably naive little brother, her clueless father, and her video game obsessed brother were absolutely wonderful. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Audrey is a brave, charming and resourceful girl and I hope she will inspire you as much as she has inspired me. It just didn't make that much sense to me, especially coming from someone who has experienced severe anxiety at that age and throughout my entire life.

The Tennis Party was immediately hailed as a success by critics and the public alike and became a top ten bestseller. Audrey is in no way "cured" by the end of this novel, she is still struggling despite her improvements and I believe those improvements would be inspiring to make teens in similar situations. Even though my lizard brain is poised to curl up in fright, I’m managing to put one foot in front of the other. Only issues I had were the same ones I have with her adult books, and they're not bad things, just some products or foods that are British, and as an American I had to Google them to make sure they were what I thought they were. With his smile and his funny notes, h starts to entice Audrey our again - well, Starbucks is a start.It's fun, it's quick, it's cute , but it also focuses on deeper topics with maturity and responsibility.