“The pseudonymous author must be enthusiastically applauded for his struggle to extract himself from the jaws of the monster.”  —KirkusReviews

“A slow-motion riot of drugs, sex and gunplay.”  —Publishers Weekly on My Bloody Life

“A survivor who turned his life around, Sanchez writes plainly and powerfully, and what is shocking about his tragic tale is not the barbaric actions of young gangbangers but the appalling collusion of adults, from criminally abusive parents to mercenary gun dealers and immoral cops.”  —Booklist on My Bloody Life

“Sanchez carefully traces his own transformation from an inner-city Puerto Rican boy who likes to play baseball into an accomplished gangbanger in Chicago's notorious Latin Kings—someone for whom pulling the trigger was becoming second nature.”  —The Washington Post on My Bloody Life