Finding Audrey is about a girl named Audrey who gets depressed and ends up with anxiety due to an “incident” that we are never told exactly what happens in plain terms. It is heavily implied, however, that it was very severe cyberbullying. She reacts to this by shutting the world out, and doesn’t go outside for months afterwards, until she meets Linus. Linus is her brother’s ex-gaming buddy. The reason he is an ex because Audrey’s mom gets really against technology and gaming and ends up throwing his computer out of a second story window. Linus and her end up dating. The only time Audrey goes out before she meets him is when she goes to her therapy sessions with Dr. Sarah. She constantly wears dark glasses, even indoors, and likes the dark. She ends up trying to ween herself off of her meds without anyone knowing. However, this ends up poorly and she takes too many and runs off into the night. She eventually gets found, and goes to talk with Dr. Sarah about how all she wanted was a straight graph. Dr. Sarah helps Audrey, and me, realize none of us have a straight graph.

In this book, the main conflict is between Audrey and the world. She had a normal life, up until the “incident.” Her graph was going straight up. But then, because no one has a straight graph, her personal graph takes a nosedive. From there, her graph goes up for a while, then goes down again, then goes up, then goes down. She ends up getting frustrated, and tries to get her graph to go up and not down. But then Dr. Sarah helps her realize that even her parents’ personal graphs go up and down. That there is no such thing as a straight graph for anyone.

A side conflict in this book is between her brother Frank and her mom. Frank loves to game, and believes that he can be professional gamer, and make money off esports. Mom is very angry, as she does not see how this can be good long term. She also loves The Daily Mail and does whatever it says. Recently, they have been preaching “the dangers of video games and technology” and her mom believes it. At a certain point, she gets so fed up she throws Frank’s gaming computer out of the window as a last resort. Later on, Frank finds a passion in cooking of all things, and this is something Mom approves of. He ends up with a new computer for homework and watching videos on how to better cook. His graph was going up, then it went down when his mom threw the computer out. Her graph went down because he wasn’t listening. But when he started to cook, both of their graphs went up again.

Throughout this book, many situations have helped me realize nobody has a straight graph. I personally feel that this was a great book to read, and it was actually very insightful. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading and isn’t afraid of heavy subject matter. It takes a lot to want to read something like this, and I am very glad I did. There were some parts I felt were rushed, but that’s the way it is sometimes. Out of 10, I think I would give this an 8.5 because there is no such thing as a 10 out of 10 book in my mind. There are some things that could be better about this book, but there is already so much that is good about this book. Overall, I would say the book is a really good read, and worth your time.