“My only criticism is the strong Muslim leaning without spoiling, I felt the portrayal of the nuns in the convent was unnecessarily offensive. I mean whole pages about how Allah does what Allah pleases, Allah chose the language of Arabic as the language of the Holy Quran, so forth and so on. I don’t mean bits and pieces here and there. There is a lot of talk about Islam that came across as highly preachy. It would seem she would be far removed from that kind of lifestyle by now.
This Winter is negotiating a deal for a $50,000 per episode reality TV show, hooded three-quarter-length mink coat, Python sky-high boots, red Gucci driving gloves, an activated iPhone, and a red carpet welcome out of the door. Winter can already tell the road she’s headed and thinks about warning Porsche about the life she’s living.
She talks about how breathing is different, the feel of the sun on her face and the smell of the food.Īs the book comes to an end and Winter sees the family, her middle sister Porsche rolls up in a Mercedes Benz dressed like a million bucks. With eight more years to go, she is shackled and accompanied by guards to attend her mother’s funeral. To understand what I mean let’s do a quick recap of the end of The Coldest Winter Ever.Īt the end of The Coldest Winter Ever, Winter is still street, but has been humbled after serving seven years in prison. The beginning leading up to the bizarre other-world was not too bad, though I did think the Life After Death Winter sounds a lot less mature than the Winter from the end of book one. The book is heavy on religion and metaphysics and I found it dark and hard to get through. Pushed as an urban fiction novel, Life After Death actually reads like a paranormal story. Urban Fiction? Paranormal? Sci-Fi? Magical Realism? It also didn’t help that I predicted the twist from the beginning so I didn’t even have the satisfaction of that to help how I would rate it. There is a bit of a twist at the end, but unfortunately for me, it was not enough to save the book. What in the American Horror Story is going on here? Neither heaven nor hell, she floats around in a kind of purgatory. The rest of the book are the details of Winter’s experience in the after-world. But before Winter could make her grand debut, she gets shot.Īnd this is where the story goes to a place I did not want to go.
Winter Santiaga is still in prison and negotiating a deal with her brother-in-law, Elisha, for a reality TV show on her release. The first thing I noticed is the plot is in the title. Life After Death is the much anticipated second sequel to Sister Souljah’s explosive bestseller, The Coldest Winter Ever. That was nine months ago, and I want to deliver on my word. I purchased this book when it dropped in March and promised to share my thoughts.
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