Jeff Ross

If you are interested in surfers and mystery this book is for you. The theme of this book starts on a boat, where they travel to an island to surf and find their friend who was looking for his parents and the wreckage, Then they find out about these two mysterious men. That says they have his parents but they don't want him to see his parents before they do a trade.

I would recommend this book for people, who like surfer dudes and mysteries because it's got both of them. It's got a lot about surfer dudes and gals that then turns into a mystery on where the parents are and if they're alive even. With this mix, it makes it a perfect book and then it throws a tiny bit of romance at you. This makes the book even better because it's intense in some parts, but then it calms down and two people are kissing.

I recommend this book because if you are interested in surfer dudes and a bit of mystery this book is for you. But the part I didn't like about this book is it seemed like they got sidetracked because instead of looking for their friend they went surfing, but then they ended up finding him and then found out he was trying to find his parents who owned a hotel on an island.. So if you are interested in a book about the mystery of a surfer dude's parents this book is for you.… (altro)

Have you ever been on the run from the police for a long time? Was it for a crime that you did not commit? In this book, it has both. He got set up with his brother and now is hiding.

This book is about how these brothers were at the club and one was handing drugs out to the dancers. One of them overdosed and ended up dying. The police came and they had to run. The DJ said that it was them and they went after them and they just kept on running. They were hiding for a while until one of them ended up taking the blame.

The protagonists were Adam and Rob. These two were the brothers and had to run from the police. The antagonist was DJ Sly. He said that the brothers were the ones who gave Mary Jane the drugs but actually, it was just Adam that gave her them. He knew that it was only him but wanted them both in jail.

The theme of the book is that every choice you make affects you and your life. When he was handing out the drugs he should have known the consequences and it could change his or others life forever and it did. He ended up killing someone and was going to be in jail for a very long time. It affected his life, his family's lives, the person that he ended up killing, Mary Jane’s life, and her family's lives.

I recommend this novel because it involves crime and having to try to get away with the killing but it feels like they hiding in the same spots or doing the same thing to get away the whole time in the book so if you enjoy crime and people running from the police this would be a good book for you to read.… (altro)

This is my review of Set You Free by Jeff Ross. I was lucky enough to have received an ARC of this book, but unfortunately due to busy schedule and not knowing where to start, as I have never really professionally written a review nor have I had an ARC before, I only got to writing the review as of now. Anyhow, I hope to learn from this experience and better myself. So here goes my thoughts.
Set You Free by Jeff Ross was a good, quick read (if you aren’t taking notes every five seconds) that details the story of a girl named Lauren who’s babysitting charge, who happens to be the mayor’s son, has been kidnapped. The town and police begin to believe that it was Lauren’s brother, Tom. However, Lauren knows better and sets off with Tom’s friend, Grady, to figure out the truth about what happened to Sam, the mayor’s son.
To start off, on my copy of the book, it says 12+ on the back which I think was incorrectly labelled. Not that I don’t think 12 year olds could handle this, but due to vulgar themes and language and some violence, I would suggest labelling it as 14+ at the very least. When I was a 12 year old, I would have found this novel very not good and felt like I need to hide from my parents that I was reading it, or I wouldn’t really be able to understand a lot of these terms.
Next thing I want to talk about is Detective Evans. Yikes. She is such a typical cop character from a horrible cop show people only watch to laugh about. She repeatedly, within the same paragraph, would pull on her sunglasses, then take them off. On, off, on, off, on, off. It was giving me a headache. And then she would have those brooding moments where we would rarely get told what she was even thinking about, which I personally don’t enjoy. And lastly, although it is actually kind of important to the whole story and it just kind of irked me, she checked her phone every two seconds. It drove me mad. Looking through my notes, I even found a bullet point that says “Detective Evans is a jerk.” Needless to say, Detective Evans was definitely not a favorite of mine.
My last complaint is I felt kind out of the loop. Whenever they were talking about the building, or the mayor’s brother, I just got so lost and confused and it made it hard for me to catch myself and find out what was happening. It was just too much information coming out of random places that it was too hard for me to keep up.
Now onto what I like about this book! This was very good plot and the plot twist at the end really got me, despite me being able to predict the majority of what happened everywhere else. I was completely thrown for a loop and I loved every second of it. You either know this from the beginning, or you are like me and just are completely blindsided (in a good way.)
Also, I read a bit of what Orca’s (the publisher) about and this is definitely a good, fast-paced novel that’s fantastic for younger or newer readers. It’s fairly easy to understand at most parts, the writing style is great, and it’s quick so you don’t feel daunted. Definitely recommend for newer or younger readers, not that older or more advanced readers shouldn’t read it either.
Lastly, Jeff Ross has a very unique voice which I found very prominent throughout this novel. The characters all spoke in a very individually way, which made for good character individuality and made Ross’s writing skills stand out. I believe the book was very well written and easy to read. I would definitely read another of Ross’s novels.
I rated this book a 3.5/5 stars.… (altro)

The mayor's son is missing. Lauren babysits Ben. Her brother quickly becomes a suspect. Lauren teams up with her brother's best friend, Grady. Together they try to come up with other suspects. They focus on the mayor's family. This was a pretty fast moving book. Lauren and Grady were likable. Grady is pretty handy with computers and finding information he shouldn't be able to find. I often wonder how much of that could actually happen, but I'm ok with stepping out of reality and believing it for the sake of a story if I like the plot and the characters, which I did. The ending was very unexpected, which for me and a mystery, makes it a very good read.… (altro)