Forged By Fire

This book was a very intense sad story of a boy who was mistreated by his mother,who had a drug adiction. Then he moves in with his wonderful aunt but unfortunately she dies and has to move back in with his mom ,step dad,and little sister. This book is exciting and has the supense of how to deal with his step dad that has a bad drinking problem and beats on him and his sister.

Forged by Fire influenced me in may different ways. The more I read the book the more it became violent. It made me think what if I wa sin this situation. Would I have the courage to stand up to my step-father and get help. I learned to perserver and not give up. That is what I learned from this book.

I think that Forged by Fired is a good book for teenagers to read. I think it is a good book to read because it tells what to do if you are getting abused by your parents. This is a book that could happen in real life. I think both girls and boys would enjoy this book. I listened to this book on audio tape and I like how the guy could talk in many types of voices. The suspense of the story made me wanting to keep on listening to it. This book is the second book in a set of three. I would recommend reading the other two.

I want to stress that the actual plot of the story and the characters were interesting and I enjoyed their purpose, action, dialogue. But I read a review about this book somewhere that said that too much happened at once in the beginning. I don't take peoples' reviews too seriously until I read the book, but this time around, I wish I would have listened. The author tried to cram FAR too much into one small book of 156 pages. The boy was 3 years old at the beginning and by the time it ended, he was 17. People were on drugs, in jail, out of jail, court cases complete, basketball tryouts, friends made, learned to cook, car accidents, dying, all within a few pages. The whole time I read this story, I felt like the author had written an outline of what should happen in each chapter and instead of fleshing it out and letting it grow progressively, she just rammed it altogether and then threw in stuff that happened in a previous book. I read one book by her and bought them all...and now I'm starting to regret it. I hope the fourth one is better, because I loved the first one about Andy, couldn't get into the "Romiette and Julio" book at all, and now this one is crammed. I'm confused over whether I like this author or not--in the book about Andy, the dialogue was on point and the plot was organized and easy-to-understand. In the "Romiette and Julio" book, the dialogue was out of wack and the story was slow. This book had great dialogue and an interesting plot like the Andy book, but it went entirely too fast. I feel like I'm reading books from several different people instead of one.

this book is about boy name gerald when he was born his mom would do the cruel things to him like burn the fire under his hand an the boyfriend of the mother would rape his sister an his mom would leave him alone in the house when he was a little boy an he went to live with his aunt an while he was there the lil sister was living in hell while her mom an boyfriend was hooked on drugs an then is an never endding end you would just have to read the book