Love After Midnight Volume 3

A Novel

De: Sister Souljah

Narrado por: Sister Souljah

Sister Souljah returns to her beloved character Winter Santiaga in the captivating and heart-pounding sequel to instant #1 New York Times bestseller Life After Death.

After suffering a horrifying, yet soul stirring death experience, worldwide top bitch Winter Santiaga, of The Coldest Winter Ever, is alive and facing a dilemma that every living person faces: how to respond to the Fear of God, awareness of heaven and hell, while pursuing and satisfying deep desires for sex, fun, love, money, revenge, and fame.

In her new novel, Love After Midnight, Sister Souljah delivers a powerful hip-hop hood style, global romantic comedy.

Disappointed, but not surprised

**possible spoiler** It started off interesting, with the mention of Mercedes’ upcoming wedding, but took a nose dive and the wedding was barely mentioned again. We heard more about designer brands & labels than an intact storyline. The book was all over the place, then the ending tried to give a lecture instead of tying the story together. The additional characters were more interesting than the Santiaga family, I wish we could’ve got to the wedding that was mentioned instead of introducing the rapper storyline. The narration didn’t help, she also sounded bored with the story.

I Couldn't Finish

I really hate abandoning books and the only 2 books I have ever abandoned were by Sister Souljah. I loved The Coldest Winter Ever. I hung in there for Life After Death but I just couldn't with this one. Sister Souljah as Winter sounds 70 years old and her father sounds 25. This along with the weird pauses and incorrect emphases threw me off way too much. I can't review the writing of the book itself since I didn't finish. Is it better if read without the audiobook? Perhaps, but the story hasn't captured me enough to find out. At this point, I don't trust Sister Souljah's writing enough to give it another try.

Next Installment Please!

This can't be the end of the series. I need answers! I just knew this was going to have a happy ending and I got crushed at the end. Hoping for redemption in the next Installment.

I enjoyed hearing Winter's story continue. I liked how she was pushed and humbled and how she looked out for those helping to build her empire. I liked guessing how people were connected, who done it, and what the character's motives were. Never would I have guessed that ending though.

So Lost and Disappointed

This was unfortunate. I was so lost and a bunch of unanswered questions. Narrator was not good for the voice of Winter. Not feeling the story line at all. Love all her books accept this one and the one before.

Great reading and voice overs

My honest opinion the story was all over the place only because one minute we’re reading about Winters show and friends then we’re reading about her sisters marriage and then her supposedly getting married. It was no clear ending. We never figured out which friend was really responsible and why/how her father knew “pretty”. The ending was a cliff hanger simply because she never stated how or who killed F.K.R.

Skip the audiobook

The story was good but it was rough listening to her read it. I will buy the paper copy to reread.

Not the same

I fell madly in love with Coldest Winter Ever, confused by its sequel and now frustrated with this third installment. Winter has shown zero intellectual or emotional growth. She’s still a teen stuck in an adult body. The writing isn’t there for me anymore. No time with character development and story was jerky. Don’t think I’ll read another.

What was the point of it all?

I have never been a fan of Winter Santiaga. I never understood the hype around her character when I read TCWE as a teenage girl and saw how many young girls admired her character. She’s superficial, materialistic, selfish, cruel, dense, and an overall waste of time. At some point, especially after experiencing death and coming back to life, you would think she would somewhat evolve. Nope, the author refuse to allow for it to happen. I’m thinking maybe that’s the point? The point is to make readers realize that Winter should have never been a fan favorite. Most of us who read TCWE as young girls has evolved in our adult years but Winter has not which makes her extremely unlikable. I wanted to give up on this book over the obsessive designer name droppings, the silly lyrics, the unclear story arc, and so on. I am not found of the admiration for this Midnight character either as if he’s the epitome of what every woman should want. He is a hater of black American women who has an exaggerated sense of self-importance. Just like Winter. Those two characters have a lot of the same characteristics. They are both unlikeable.

I waited soo long

Why couldn’t she have Nia Long continue the narration from the last book?.. the voice wasn’t doing it for me. I don’t know if I’ll even finish this book after reading the other reviews.. I’m 11 chapters in and literally there’s still nothing grabbing your attention no real plot.. it’s just superficial Winter being a stuck up, spoiled, money hungry, label whore. No growth.

Disappointing

Winter reminds me of real people I know and it breaks my heart. Never evolving and always worshipping material things, status, and willfully remaining as ignorant as possible about anything outside of their comfort zone. The story itself has no substance and is just a long-winded description of a bunch of expensive luxury items. The narration was awful hands down, Other books in this series were great and I honestly got the book out of loyalty to the author and the characters...the storyline in general, but I really regret this one smh.