This book was amazing ! I absolutely loved it! I read this book in less than a week. I took it everywhere with me (Literally) because I was so eager to know what was gonna happen next. I'm talking about The Coldest Winter Ever written by Sister Souljah. I don't know what took me so long to hop on board with her books, but I'm glad I came across it. This is the story of a young wealthy girl by the name of Winter Santiaga that lives in the Projects of Brooklyn but most certainly didn't want for anything ever. Her father is the high respected drug kingpin of their hood that decides to move the family to Long Island. I quickly was pulled in from the second I opened this book to start reading. This young girl was telling her story. The way she was so authentic with her words, the way she was so unapologetic of who she was caught my attention. The narrative was so vivid and I never got bored. No time was wasted and even the minor things stood out. It was filled with events that pull you into the world and reality of these characters. Winter is Materialistic, spoiled, lost and very unaware of the fact because she was brought up in this way of living. She is constantly trying to stay on top. When a sudden down fall in her as well as her families life occurs. Her father gets locked up and her family loses everything including each other. Her street smarts that she claims to have is put to the test. She fights constantly to regain the control of what was happening around her. She was willing to use and manipulate any an everybody to get what she wanted. But yet she had a sympathetic story happening to where you feel for her . You want her to make it out of the situation. Or you at least develop the curiosity as to if she will make it out on top of things in the end or not. She is the girl that had to always have the finer things even when her lifestyle wasn't nearly as close to the image she showed to people on the outside looking in. She doesn't see anything wrong with her actions, the steps she is taking, her priorities in life . She doesn't see anything wrong with the things her father has done to get him incarcerated. She doesn't even see her own downfall until the very end. Even though things are steadily falling apart around her. It also shows how the cycle of destruction is repeating itself through her younger sister. Being misguided by the glitz and glam, money, so called respect and so much more associated with the lifestyle of drug dealing. Every character in this book and every event was so real. Sister Souljah even allowed the readers to get to know her by making herself a character in the book. I loved the idea of presenting different perspectives of all the characters including herself. I would recommend this book to everybody. Because there are so many different roles offered to connect with In this book. This is also so many peoples story in a way. It opened my eyes so much that anything written by this author I would recommend. I am in the process of getting all her books in my possession to read more! If you haven't read it ! read it! If you haven't heard of it. Now you know!
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