*I got Nil from netgalley.com in exchange for an honest and fair review. 
 I've been looking forward to reading Nil, and it's definitely different and strange...but in a good way. 
 I mean, Charley somehow ends up on this strange island where you have a year to get off the island. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to why some people end up on the island- other than everyone being in middle school or high school. 
 Here's the thing about Nil: you get thrown into this world, with no explanation of what's going or why people end up there or why there are rules. Seriously, by the end of the book, you still have no clue what the deal with this island is. And normally that would bother me, because I want to know so many things about the world I inhabit when reading...but not knowing much of anything about Nil actually worked well for the book. 
 You only know what the characters know, and even the one who have been on the island for a while don't have the answers. They just try to make do with what they have and seem to make the best out of a really strange situation. 
 The book itself is narrated by two different people- Charley, who is a newcomer to the island, and Thad, who has been on the island for almost a year. I did like that you had the two of them narrate, because you got two very different perspectives on the island. I find it interesting that you know very little about their lives before Nil and their lives after Nil. But that also worked for me, because their lives become all about Nil. You only see Charley going to Nil and what her life was like after going home, but there is part of me that wants to know what happened to the other kids on Nil after Charley and Thad left. And how they deal with not being on Nil anymore. 
 Let's Rate It: Nil is definitely different and strange but in a good way! I liked that we don't know much of anything about the island and the people Charley and Thad left behind. I didn't love Nil, and I'm not sure why, because there are so many great things about it. I just don't think it had that special something to make me fall in love with it. Nil gets 3 stars.