Winter Santiaga is still the unlikeable, delusional chick she was in CWE. Unfortunately, it appears neither the author, her characters nor her writing have grown. I thought that surely 22 years later, the author would recognize that even readers who were teens when CWE first came out were grown now. So why would I read Life After Death given how underwhelmed I was by her previous work? Growth.

I read Midnight, based on a character from CWE, years later and was also unimpressed. I was 28 when I read CWE and it wasn't the amazing read others said it was, in my humble opinion, but like I said, it was a different voice. So Sister Souljah, she who inspired some and was a controversial figure for others in the 90s (revisit the role she played in Bill Clinton's 92 presidential campaign ), was a fresh, new voice in the realm of urban lit. Donald Goines was one of the originators of the genre, but his books were most popular in the early 70s and were mostly out of print by then, as were Iceberg Slim's books. Up until then, there wasn't a wide variety of street/urban lit. 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.

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