The coldest winter was a coveted release. This is not going to live up to that.

The book starts with Winter being incarcerated. Before her release from prison, she agrees to a reality tv show deal. Upon her release, she is shot. The book literally follows her life after death.

For most of the book, Winter is negotiating the tensions of heaven and hell. There’s also the looming conversation whether or not religion is real. There’s a lot of strange experiences throughout the book. She has sex with satan and many of his spawns (which was extremely weird — you’ll see when you read it). Throughout nearly ending up in Hell, Winter maintained the same poor attitude until she is guided by her aborted son towards heaven. It’s not until nearly the end of the book where readers learn she was actually in a coma.

First, this book could have been a few hundred pages shorter. It dragged on way too long. Second, I had to research that Sister Souljah is 57-years-old. Her writing hasn’t matured. I was 13 reading The Coldest Winter Ever. At 30, I was just expecting more. I can see what she was trying to accomplish with this but the execution just was not there. I hope she doesn’t receive too harsh criticisms for this book, but it just is not what I was hoping for.