My SSR book is called War of the Bloods in My Veins. This book is a memoir. I like this book because its based on real life events and that is what makes it even more interesting. The book is about a young man named Dashaun who lives New Jersey and he is part of the Bloods gang. Dashaun is surrounded by drugs, guns and all types of violence. Dashaun experiences a lot of deaths since his friends or as he says, homees, are also in the gang and they have been killed by the gang violence. Dashaun lives with his stepfather, his mom and his brother. His mother starts getting into the drugs and she happens to overdose and that left Dashaun really shocked and scared thinking he was going to lose his mom. Dashaun also lacks the love and affection a teenage boy needs from both his mother and father. Because of that and all other problems , Dashaun has suicidal thoughts along with his friend Meg. By the middle of the book, Dashaun finally meets his biological father and isnt happy about it. Although, he really did want to meet his father, when he finally did meet him he was surprised his father had 2 other kids and