shanaepraystoo's Reviews (925)

Most people find this book brilliant - I've given it 3 stars simply because I do not like the text itself. Faulkner's writing style is brilliant even though it is difficult. I had to read the book for a course in special topics in American literature. I love Faulkner's writing technique, Toni Morrison uses it in her latest novel A Mercy and, while different, I appreciate Morrison's use of the technique much more than Faulkner's and maybe that's because I just don't relate to the topics discussed in the novel, don't appreciate a white man's glossing over the African American perspective just because he didn't want to struggle with it (that's just my opinion), or the glorification of the South. Most will probably have to read this book at some point in their lives, I didn't find it good recreational reading, but the topics seemed to be for recreational thought...I don't know - I'm just no fan of The Sound and the Fury.

An okay book - I definitely would not have read it if I didn't have to write about it for school. The sexual histories definitely take the forefront in the novel, but I preferred the background about life in Haiti and its diasporic community in New York as a result of the Duvalier regime.

I really enjoyed this book & quite a few others in the series. Hernandez does a great job developing her characters and the plot. This novel is the epitome of urban lit.

This was just as good as the first. Treasure Hernandez really hooked me into this series with Working Girls.

I don't know how people rate this book with anything more than 3 stars. This is my least favorite K'Wan book and I really can't explain why. I guess it just wasn't what I'd expected after I read his other books, like Eve and Still Hood>.

There is so much I can say about this novel, so as not to spoil it, I will just say this: READ THIS NOVEL!!!

I felt duped when I bought "Midnight." Sister Soulja is a damn conartist. She advertised "Midnight" as a sequel to her great novel, "The Coldest Winter Ever," but I'm telling you it is NOT A SEQUEL! If anything "Midnight" is a prequel to Midnight's life. Sister Soulja used the entire novel to degrade African Americans and question their Christianity. Heads up Sister Soulja: Not everyone is a Muslim or lover of Islam. Sister Soulja is a pseudo-intellectual hypocrite who uses the capitalist regime she so greatly "dislikes" just to get money. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! I REPEAT, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK - save yourself the frustration & upset at the prospect that Sister Soulja could write another "The Coldest Winter Ever."