When I read The Coldest Winter Ever back in 99, it was unlike anything I'd ever read, and I've always read a lot. Let me just start with sis, what in the entire hell was this? Also, I'm about to drop spoilers so if you don't want to know why I gave this such a low rating, go ahead and click out, scroll past, do what you have to do.

True fans won’t let Winter travel alone on this amazing journey. That’s what Winter thinks.Ī heartwarming, heart-burning, passionate, sexual, comical, and completely original adventure is about to happen in real time-raw, shocking, soulful, and shameless. Hell is the same as any hood and certainly the Brooklyn hood she grew up in. Will she blow Winter’s head off? Can Winter dodge the bullets? Or will at least one bullet blast Winter into another world? Either way Winter is fearless. Simone, Winter’s young business partner and friend, is locked and loaded and Winter is her target. But Winter is not the only one with revenge on her mind. She’s eager to pay back her enemies, rebuild her father’s empire, reset his crown, and ultimately to snatch Midnight back into her life no matter which bitch had him while she was locked up. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow. The novelist’s critiques are interpersonal as well as societal.The long-anticipated sequel to Sister Souljah’s million copy New York Times bestseller The Coldest Winter Ever.

Even in her condemnation of Winter’s actions, Sister Souljah-both the actual author and the character in the book-addresses the larger injustices affecting people who live in similar environments. Life After Death presents an opportunity to more thoroughly consider literature of its kind-for those of us who first became acquainted with Winter as teens, and for a publishing industry that still doesn’t quite understand characters like her. Though Life After Death doesn’t take place on the literal streets of Brooklyn, the sequel joins its predecessor-and the rest of Sister Souljah’s work-in illuminating both the glamour and the danger of urban life. The second novel follows Winter to a temptation-packed purgatory where she must surrender the avarice, lust, and ego that have defined her existence. In Life After Death, published last week, Sister Souljah continues to explore the vices that ensnare Winter and materialistic young people like her. Now, 22 years later, a new sequel finds Winter ready to reclaim the life that should have been hers all along-but not without facing unexpected hurdles.

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