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Look, I know what you're thinking. You grew up on TCWE and Flyy Girl books. You feel like Souljah couldn't possibly mess this up. And hey, the first chapter is pretty interesting, like the old Souljah. So how bad can it be? Very bad. Very, VERY bad. If you read the Midnight books, you've read this one. A preteen kid who is able to hustle up tens of thousands of dollars while apparently nobody - and I mean NO DAMN BODY - seems to care that she's never in school. A prepubescent child who writes and talks like a 40-year-old. (I'm an educator who gives writing prompts on a near-daily basis, so Porsche's so-called journal entries are all that more ridiculous.) Seriously, 80% of this book is Porsche from ages 10-12. Bored yet? You will be after the first 300 pages. Let's not forget Souljah's Islam fetish, where Muslims are never presented as real people and Islam is some magical cult that would save black America from itself. Does Souljah even KNOW any Muslims? Because they are never people in her stories, only caricatures. Souljah's penis envy is also in overdrive by the end - her definition of "patriarchy" could have only been Babelfished from ancient Greek, it's so off-base. Let's not even get started with the inconsistencies! Even the ones she tries to explain away (like her relationship with Buster) are appallingly bad. Pick this up at the library if you just have to check it out, but do NOT put your money towards this project. It's time to stop supporting mediocrity - and long-winded mediocrity at that. TCWE was either a fluke or was ghostwritten. Midnight, Meaning of Love, and now this. One...two...three strikes, Souljah. Hang it up.