The Coldest Winter Ever Book

Winter Santiaga is a spoiled, materialistic, troubled teenager. Throughout the novel, she is constantly trying to "stay on top". She grows up in the ghetto with a father who is a drug kingpin. Her father spoils her rotten and her mother feeds into this. They finally move out of the ghetto and into a rich, suburban area. Winter feels isolated and needs to go back to the ghetto and brag to her friends and complete strangers.

Winter also sees no problem with spending a few hundred dollars on an outfit and other luxuries. This mentality brings her to the destructive point in her life. She uses her good looks and her game to manipulate everyone (including her immediate family) into getting what she wants. The book mainly discusses her problems with spending money on ridiculous items and how she never realizes the problem with it. Winter never sees her downfall until the very end. And in the end it also shows how history repeats itself or how life is a cycle when Winter's sister has fallen into the same trap."

She is the girl many young girls want to be in life. You know, a video-hoe in the making. When tragedy strikes her family, her pops is locked up, and no one else is willing to help. A girl, who is accustomed to the "best", has to figure out how to live a life without it, as though she never had any more than anyone else.
I loved the book. Everything that was said and done was shockingly real. I wouldn't be surprised if it someone's real life story. If there are young girls out there who are misguided by all of the glitz and glitter of the drug game, this is an excellent story to set them straight.