I was a huge fan Khaled Hosseini's two most popular previous books, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. They were captivating stories that were very well written. However, this book just didn't do it for me. It took me a large portion of the book to become invested in the story, and then when I was really interested, the book ended.
The most interesting part of this book was the structure though. Each chapter followed a particular character. The next chapter would follow a character that was just introduced in the previous chapter, and of course, all of the chapters were all connected in some way. There was: a father, his son and his daughter, their stepmother, her brother, his boss, the boss' wife, and then three other characters who were introduced into a more modern day Afghanistan. Really fun structure, but unfortunately the beginning parts were too boring and I didn't have anything invested in them yet emotionally.
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