At its absolute best (and it's a very good best), NLOG is a powerful and intimate portrait of a teenage girl trying to find herself. Something happened to Jo one summer that fundamentally changed her, and as the reader slowly peels back her layers, she's able to name and come to terms with it. Her trauma comes to the forefront because her ex-best friend Maddie has disappeared. While the story surrounding Maddie's disappearance was interesting enough, it was the coming of age, self-love journey and reckoning that kept me reading until the very end.

Jo has had a lot of people define her and whisper about her. And as a reader, I formed my own opinion of her based on the other characters and her inner monologue. But who is she exactly? And what was the trauma that irrevocably changed her? While I saw the trauma aspect coming, I didn't see how the mystery would unfold. I felt that sometimes there were too many things happening at once within the narration that made me confused and hard to fit the pieces together. However, this is still an incredible book that I highly recommend.

This book is about Jo finding Maddie. But it's also about how Jo finds herself (and a support system).

Thank you to NG and the publisher for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.