Reviews | Debra R. Borys

Not as glowing as the previous reviews, but enough goodness to keep me happy.

M.J. Joachim did a thoughtful review of Bend Me, Shape Me last week that I almost missed. While she did not add the book to her Recommended Reading list, she had many good things to say, including the excerpt below. Click through to read the entire commentary.

Let me know if you agree with some of her conclusions. I love learning if there is something I can do better for next time.

This is a story that begins with an intensely strong opening chapter, one that startles readers, awakens their senses and captures their attention. Happy endings, albeit nice, seem to soften the blow and dismiss the horror of what life must be like for homeless teenagers on our streets, especially in rough cities like Chicago.
Bend Me, Shape Me is an important testimony for the plight of homeless people, prostitutes, addicts etc. My heart opened wide as I…

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The reviews are starting to add up, and they’re all sounding pretty positive!

Bend Me, Shape Me

Kimberly Costa gave Bend Me, Shape Me 4-stars and some high praise. Here are the highlights of her review, but I encourage you to click through to read the whole review and followup comments.

I am delighted I agreed to read and review this novel. Borys offers fascinating characters, a look at inner city homeless children and combines it with a suspenseful mystery that kept me flipping the pages. This is the second book in the Street Stories series but each work is a standalone. Three word review: suspenseful, enlightening and well done.
Snow is a powerful character who has been apart of too much darkness for a girl of eighteen. She is street wise and has spent her youth protecting her brother Alley and drowning her sorrow in pills. Snow and Alley are half Native American and left the Washington Yakama Reservation with her mother and father. Their life…

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