The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul: The heart-warming and uplifting international bestseller

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Following the lives of people within America adjusting to not being in Kabul anymore was not as interesting as I thought it would be.

Joe is a Japanese, American, Italian twice Sunny's age who has lost his wife, his beloved Sylvie but lives life to the full. First of all, I honestly can't believe that people like Faheem exist, he has a very disgusting personality and people like him just waste oxygen.

There's Layla, Yazmina's sister who was saved from drug lords by Jack, has now been placed in America to study with the help of Candace, but she along with another Afghan girl Kat are trying to make sense of their place in the world.

But she does not despair in her misery - Halajan is positive, and hopeful, and willing to speak her thoughts to whoever will listen - she is the epitome of a strong-willed woman in a male dominated world. Through him, we hear about the internment camps with a focus on Camp Harmony (the name of the camp at the Puyallup Valley Fairgrounds), not something I ever expected to read in this and honestly it's done well too. All in all I began this book confused of all the different characters and backgrounds and the relationships to each other but as I carried on the book, I started to connect the dots and understood who was who and from where etc.Like the first book in this series, I found it difficult at times to follow each character with the names and places, who they are, and what impact they have in the story. There's a point in the book where Layla says something to the effect of 'It's not true that men are abusive. This book is really good and I can not put in to words how great this book really is I would tell people to read it for themselves to know how great this book really is. This book was really easy to get into l was hooked on the first few pages it was really hard to put down once l started reading it. Unfortunately though, this book did not capture me like the first and I found it really difficult to get through.

Layla and Kat, former one wants to keep a piece of Kabul in heart always and the latter has memories that have torn her heart away from the city and its magical culture. She avoids being too saccharine and predictable, and drops several heartbreaking twists along the way.

Sunny, who misses Afghanistan and her own little world of Cafe, now needs to make sense of her life without Jack and a vineyard left to her.

The character Sunny, definitely lives up to her name; there is no over emphasis on any of the negative situations she or her friends find themselves in. Yazmina, the young mother is now managing Sunny's cafe in Kabul along with her mother in law, Halajan.She's an enigmatic and unconventional woman living in a patriarchal world whose pillars are conventional, parochial and conformist. In Afghanistan a young girl is trying to escape an arranged marriage to an evil, rich man – something that has disastrous consequences for herself and her newfound friends. On the other side of the world, Layla, Yazmina’s sister, is experiencing Western culture living with Sunny, and is shocked at how friendly men and women are with each other. Deborah Rodriguez has taken us back to the heart of Afghanistan to indulge us in the worlds of our favourite characters that we met in the first instalment of this duology.