First she visits her jail crew and finds out one of them shot her - same chick who held a grudge for 15 years and slashed her face in CWE. She 'wakes' up in what seems like purgatory. As she exits the jail, she's shot and this is where things go left (just in case you didn't think they'd already gone left). Girl, what? In what world would anyone care about watching that based on her? She was someone with no claim to fame other than who her father was and people are supposed to be interested 15 years later when she gets out of jail? I guess this was supposed to be like Mob Wives, right? Dealer Daughters?Īnyway, Winter makes these ridiculous requests for her reality show, including her father's release from prison where he's serving a life sentence, designer clothes with a matching white mink (I guess she's the Lisa Raye of the prison set), a red carpet from the door of the prison to a new Bentley, etc. She's just about to get released and has secured a reality TV show gig that will center on her release from jail, along with a few of her recently released jail crew. For the life of me, I can't figure out how your only claim to fame is that your father was once a big time drug dealer in the 90s and you think that should earn you respect well into your 30s? The book opens with her in jail, serving a 15 year bid because, as you'll remember from the end of CWE, she got sentenced for being in Bullet's car which was full of drugs and guns and had been rented with her credit card. 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.

Life after death sister