Great story and loved the slight romance. Really enjoyed the characters and how the plot moved and how the characters changed throughout the book. I would read this author again.

Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

This was a decent young adult novel about a boy with secrets who goes missing. I found it very relevant and important, and it definitely kept me turning pages.

Told from multiple points of view, moving back and forth in time, this is a cautionary tale involving prescription drug abuse, wrapped in the mystery of a missing town hero.
Uncomfortable truths are revealed and denial is peeled away bit by bit as family and friends remember hints that point to Jake’s struggles, and come to grips with what has happened.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a DRC of this title for review. All opinions are my own.

I went into this expecting a murder mystery, or a thriller where the search for the missing person takes you all the way to the last page. Because Jake, the town's local basketball hero and recent star of the state championship game, disappears from his house that night. Everyone's eyes are on him as the game goes on, but once it's over, he manages to vanish. Was he taken? Did he run away? Is he truly gone?

The answer to these questions is murky and hard to hold on to, and actually leads to more questions about what Jake's life was like in the years leading up to the big game, and what his friends really knew about him.

As the story unfolds in multiple perspectives, timelines, and styles, the reader becomes aware that while Jake faded away from the town after the game, he's really been disappearing for much longer than that. People just didn't know how to notice.

Highly recommend.