Review Copy❤️: Cindy Davies (Author)
Publisher : Odyssey Books.
Date : 12 September 2019.
Book Length : 402.
Format : Ebook.
Price: Rs 471.45
This book is a sequel to The Afghan Wife .
Find the review to the first book in the link above.
The Author has revealed a lot of interesting anecdotes and insights about the books in her earlier interview with me. Its never enough to know more about your favourite book and the brain behind it!. Whether you read the series or not make sure to read her interview. Its very Insightful!!
Zahra and Karim are back and so am I through them as this would be my first review after 2 yrs…….
When I decided to restart blogging this is the first book that came to my mind as its prequel had been one of my best reads back then and the book had a sequel coming.. though the author gave me this copy way back i could only manage to read it now and finish it up in 2 days!
Honestly it has been a longtime since I read the first book so I had only vaguely recalled the story. It took me a while to get a grip but I eventually got it as I realised the story was imprinted in my mind as i loved it a lot back then especially the part where rashid is executed stayed in my head and heart even after such a long period as I could never get over it and nor will ,add more to it the author decided to give me another loss in the second book….. Sniff!!!
To quickly brush up with the the first book “The Afghan Wife” is a romantic thriller set in Iran during the time of the revolution in 1979 and traces the life of the main protagonists Zarah and Karim in an intense political plot.
if you want to know more about the history of iran go for this book and it being a romantic thriller is a cherry on the top and with its wonderful and vivid script and a smooth screenplay it is a must have!
Zarah who finally gets rid of her abusive husband flees to Tehran ,Iran from Afghanistan with her cousin Firzun and son ahmad. She takes shelter with nasim and rashid, friends of Firzun ,who then recommends her for employment with Mrs konari their rich affluent neighbour as a servant ,this is where she meets Karim, son of Mrs konari and the scene where they meet each other face to face first time is SPOT on! ,it is still fresh in my memory though i have read it only once!
They fell in love eventually amidst all the trials and tribulations but they don’t unite in the first book ,with many dramatic turns and a few deaths the first book is continued to a sequel….
The second book in the sequel the revolutionary cousin starts in tehran ,iran again, where zarah is forced to leave Karim and leave for Australia while Karim returns to USA where his rest of his family has fled due to the worsening situation in Tehran ,Iran.
The protagonists are forced to leave one country after another. On introspection It dawns how bitter life of refugees were during war in those days, people had suffered greatly .You feel another level of respect for those survivors! And its just makes you realise that we are so lucky!
As they are seperated because of the cruel fate and the damn war. Their trials and tribulations only worsens in their respective adopted countries. The author traces the life of all the main protagonists in the sequel Karim,zarah and firzun aka the revolutionary cousin each of whom had their own struggles and difficulties to cope with.
The second half had more twists and turns
I literally sobbed the last few chapters crying buckets of tear a whole afternoon when a character died ,already Rashid’s execution had been imprinted in my mind in the first book I never ever got over it …I literally wailed over it and now I went through the same experience again in the sequel.
Their is a long long way before our love birds reunite ,brace yourself for that, but when they eventually unite its all worth it!.
The detailed description of the sceneries now and then is a bit more than necessary especially for an impatient reader like me who is too curious about what next and it becames a hurdle hence I had to skim read it. later i found out some of the detailed sceneries were imperative to the plot and I had to go back and read it carefully again not to miss in any details and furthermore it makes it easy for you to imagine the scene like a movie.
The only disappointment was I have been looking forward to zarah and Karim happily after in the second book. BUT it seems the wait is longer!
The third sequel will roll out soon!
Thanks is not enough to the author who generously sent me the second book.
As always I am looking forward to the next book and this time they will unite!
Would i like to reread it: yes very much though i will skip the part where one of the characters passes away as my heart aches!
Love-o-meter : 4.5🌟
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