While I thoroughly enjoyed "The Coldest Winter Ever", I was unsatisfied at the end of the story. I went through all of Winter's struggles and still maintained hope for her and the family. Sister Souljah owed me and in this book she delivered. I love Porsche Santiaga like she was my own kid. I cried in the end, happy, cleansing, faith restoring tears. I will definitely read it again.

"A Deeper Love inside:The Porsche Santiaga Story" by Sister Souljah is a well written, intense, roller coaster ride in story format. Anyone expecting a sequel to the earth shattering "Coldest Winter Ever" which glorifies drugs and violent redemption will be sorely disappointed. This story, although a work of fiction, resonants as a mature and honest perspective on the effects of the drug trade in Black America on a raw, personal level as well as provides perspective on families and communities. Through Porsche's journey the reader sees the other, less glamorous side fraught not with wealth and possessions, but with death, disease, institutional degradation, insanity and brokenness. In doing what was necessary to survive, along the way Porsche/Siri/Ivory are blessed in the process to find love. This love would allow her to trust others and even herself. This is a well written work that I look forward to reading again throughout the years.

I can only describe this book with one word: BORING!!! I am a huge fan of the novel: "The Coldest Winter Ever" so you can only imagine the excitement of waiting 14 years for a Santiaga sequel, that I thought only Sister Souljah can bring to a novel. She failed!!! I was very disappointed after reading "A deep love inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story". I personally felt that half of the chapters in this book could have been eliminated. The novel is told from the voice of Winter's middle sister Porsche, who at age 10 has to overcome so many tragedies and heartbreaks at such a tender age only to realize she held on to a past that only existed in her head. Throughout the book, Porsche a.k.a. Ivory, cannot come to terms with the fact that she will always be the "invisible middle child/sister." Chapters’1-24 cover this topic repetitively making it hard for the reader to actually care about her struggles. The book also becomes a bit confusing about Porsche's identity and her friend "Siri". It was also a bit unbelievable about her life story as an 11 year old girl, roaming the streets of Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, who makes long term friendships with neighborhood folks 4 times her age. But hey, that's why it's called fiction, right? Porsche then leaves her readers guessing about her life between the ages of 14-16 where she returns to Brooklyn after receiving tragic news.She suddenly has an epiphany and falls deeply in love and makes the decision to be a wife and mother at age 17! Souljah as always, adds her belief of Islam as well as her opinions of men and women roles in today's society within the book. I personally don't mind all that jazz as long as you feed your readers the juice they are seeking. The Porsche Santiaga story pretty much left me uninterested with the Santiaga family. I can only hope we can get the "real" juice from Winter after her prison release.