The Free

Name: The Free
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Lauren McLaughlin
ISBN: 9781501952647

Author: Lauren McLaughlin

Narrator: James Shippy

Unabridged: 6 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/28/2017

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Social Themes

Synopsis

In the beginning, Isaac West stole to give his younger sister Janelle little things: a new sweater, a scarf, just so she looked less like a charity case whose mother spent money on booze and more like the prep school girls he'd see on his way to school. But when Isaac's petty theft lands him in juvie, he's cut off from helping Janelle. Friendless in a dangerous world of gangs and violent offenders, he must watch his every step. His sentence requires him to meet regularly for group therapy, where the inmates reenact their crimes, attempting to understand what happened from the perspective of their victims. The therapy is intense. And as Isaac works through scenes with the group, he begins to recall a memory he'd long ago repressed. A memory that changed everything. And as he begins to piece together the truth about the circumstances that shaped his life-the circumstances that brought Isaac to Haverland in the first place-he must face who he was, who he is.and who he wants to be.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nightinkgale

Full review : [URL not allowed] I will compare this book to rock climbing. You are climbing the mountain to get to the top. You realise you are getting higher and higher and that the danger is growing more intense by the meter. I felt like I was the backpack and the book was th......more

Goodreads review by Suze

Isaac learned to steal at a young age. His mother is a drunk who doesn't look after her children and he doesn't know his father. To take care of his younger sister Janelle he had to put food on the table and he made sure she always had nice clothes, but he isn't able to do that now. When he got into......more

Goodreads review by Christiane

Thanks to Soho Teens and Netgalley for providing a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. 'The Free' is a young adult novel written by Lauren McLaughlin about a juvenile delinquent and his experiences during his time at a detention centre. Isaac West is a sixteen-year-old boy who is......more

Goodreads review by Lori

Thanks to Edelweiss-AboveTheTreeline for the free ARC Kindle-ebook The Free by Lauren McLaughlin. Haverland could be a dystopian society where juveniles are sentenced to punishment for their criminal behavior. It could be, or it is possibly a detention center where teens and young adults have a sh......more

Goodreads review by Read

Things are not always what they seem to be, something Isaac knows all too well. From the outside it looks like he is a petty thief. Yet he knows he is stealing to provide food and clothing for his sister because his mother is too much of a drunk to care. These side jobs of Isaac cause him to get cau......more