Finding Audrey

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Now she stays at home and interferes with her family and her therapist as she tries to regain her confidence! il parle de la famille , d’amour d’adolescents, bref, il parle de la vie, avec ses hauts et ses bas, il parle d’espoir et de courage. I hope that anyone suffering from anxiety, bullying, or even just teenage woes can take heart from her. Instead we got one dimensional stereotyped characters, a manic pixie dream boy who changes the girl, jokes that missed their mark SO BAD that it would make you look away, prose that was blatantly written "for YA" (which never works), anxiety being "fixed" by bullshit external ways, an "incident" that was never explained (whether this was because Kinsella didn't actually know herself, was unclear), and a story with no core.

It is a light-hearted read that deals with a topic like mental illness so nicely and respectfully that I was truly overwhelmed. Imagine you're this family's neighbor and everyday you can hear their fights, wouldn't that be a bit irritating?I also felt there was too large of a focus on being addicted to video games - At times, it felt as if their mother's obsession with Frank's video game usage overtook the focus on Audrey's story.

Audrey's family is hilarious and every character was so well-written and real; I adored them all even though everyone had their own quirks! On the advice of Doctor Sarah, Audrey documents her everyday life so that we see more than a third person view of Audrey. Now, her books are the first ones I read in English, so, you know, I might need to reread them some day (I mean duh.

I'm very familiar with teenagers, having two of my own — but most importantly, I remember being a teenager myself. I liked the romance - I don't feel it is anything special, but I was happy to see a supportive love interest that helps the main character in their recovery, yet isn't attributed to as the sole reason they begin to get better. I think her recovery was too quick-- and the pace of this book just went too fast in general; there was a very unrealistic jump from "omg don't enter the same room as me" to "omg let's make out. However, I think of it also as a book for anyone who has suffered from anxiety or bullying, played computer games, had a child who plays too many computer games .