As an installment in the Nancy Drew canon and the first of the Nancy Drew Diaries series, this is... weird. I really wanted to like this book because I love all things Nancy Drew, but I felt a disconnect between Nancy's life and the intended audience. In these books, Nancy and her friends are in college, though the books are written for a middle grade audience. I obviously cannot give a rating on what the book is not, but I think it would have been good for the publishers to consider how to actually make Nancy more accessible to new audiences AND how to diversify her story.