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2.73 AVERAGE
2.73 AVERAGE
*HARD SIGH* This book was incredibly silly and disjointed. I'm not sure if Souljah is a genius for creating such a STUPID character that you love to hate, or a hack who fizzled after writing the urban fiction classic, "Coldest Winter Ever". I admittedly hate read this book, but if it had a glimmer of good storytelling I would have gladly given it a higher rating. Alas, this was not a good book. The two stars I gave it was generous...
Maybe you’re the type of reader who needs clarity, certainty, and things to be how they always are.
That’s not me.
The reason I loved this book and Sister Soulja’s writing style so much is because it speaks so deeply to my inner feelings and my depth as a woman. For the healed and unhealed, the spiritual and the godless. This book opens me up in so many ways that I never have been before.
Have you ever read a book that made you feel something you’ve never felt?
This book is real life. Maybe not for you, but everyone can say they know somebody. Regrettably I was a Winter, I knew a winter, but I’m healed and see the reality and depth of the her character and the life and lessons Sister Souljah placed in this book and all her books.
Sometimes I want Winter’s life, but mostly I realize that things are the way they are and then you die. Unless you change things…unless you be better.
But some of yall will never get that. And that’s why you didn’t like this book.
That’s not me.
The reason I loved this book and Sister Soulja’s writing style so much is because it speaks so deeply to my inner feelings and my depth as a woman. For the healed and unhealed, the spiritual and the godless. This book opens me up in so many ways that I never have been before.
Have you ever read a book that made you feel something you’ve never felt?
This book is real life. Maybe not for you, but everyone can say they know somebody. Regrettably I was a Winter, I knew a winter, but I’m healed and see the reality and depth of the her character and the life and lessons Sister Souljah placed in this book and all her books.
Sometimes I want Winter’s life, but mostly I realize that things are the way they are and then you die. Unless you change things…unless you be better.
But some of yall will never get that. And that’s why you didn’t like this book.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Disappointed. I loved all 6 books. She’s the same Winter that we’ve always known!
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Sister Souljah needs to let the Winter Santiaga character go. There are many others in the Coldest Winter universe that are much more interesting, moving, and richer than Winter. Very frustrating to read a character who clearly needs psychiatric help and refuses.
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
😮💨 I’m glad Winter is doing the best she can. I’m grateful her sister and brother are looking out for her. It’s good seeing her father out and about. The show’s interrogations were a cool view of who done it seemed great. The previous book had me anticipating the bleakest of encounters… with the trigger words like change of power, obey, music ringtone selections, character names and so forth, I was on edge the whole book long.
slow-paced
Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for providing this book, with my honest review below.
Like many who will be drawn to this book, I enjoyed The Coldest Winter Ever and had read some of Sister Souljah’s follow up books set in the same world, but had been eager for one focused on Winter (I did not read the first return to Winter book as the plot didn’t seem to my tastes). Love After Midnight focused on Winter as she gets back into the world she ran as a Brooklyn princess in her teens, complete with her father by her side, and I was eager to see if she had grown during her time in prison.
While Sister Souljah writes Winter in the same style for the character I got to know in The Coldest Winter Ever, the general writing and story felt disjointed and at times confusing. While some of that may just be my own tastes (as an example the first chapter opens with writing that seems to emulate the rhythm of a song, but it just didn’t work for me), others would apply for any reader (the last few chapters). On the positive side, I would view this as the promise of a good story emerging about Winter’s childhood friends betraying her and her continued shallowness despite a near death experience. Ultimately though, some of the chapters (see previous notes) just didn’t work for me and this felt very surface level throughout. Perhaps this is getting the reader ready for the next book (we end on a bit of a cliffhanger) which will dive deeper, but with so many places Love After Midnight could have taken me, I felt there was more than enough story available that could have been developed more deeply in this book alone.
Like many who will be drawn to this book, I enjoyed The Coldest Winter Ever and had read some of Sister Souljah’s follow up books set in the same world, but had been eager for one focused on Winter (I did not read the first return to Winter book as the plot didn’t seem to my tastes). Love After Midnight focused on Winter as she gets back into the world she ran as a Brooklyn princess in her teens, complete with her father by her side, and I was eager to see if she had grown during her time in prison.
While Sister Souljah writes Winter in the same style for the character I got to know in The Coldest Winter Ever, the general writing and story felt disjointed and at times confusing. While some of that may just be my own tastes (as an example the first chapter opens with writing that seems to emulate the rhythm of a song, but it just didn’t work for me), others would apply for any reader (the last few chapters). On the positive side, I would view this as the promise of a good story emerging about Winter’s childhood friends betraying her and her continued shallowness despite a near death experience. Ultimately though, some of the chapters (see previous notes) just didn’t work for me and this felt very surface level throughout. Perhaps this is getting the reader ready for the next book (we end on a bit of a cliffhanger) which will dive deeper, but with so many places Love After Midnight could have taken me, I felt there was more than enough story available that could have been developed more deeply in this book alone.