Bookseller of Kabul

I feel like this is just more of the same that we read for summer reading. I feel like once you read one of the books, you become desensitized and it no longer can have legitimate pathos. With that in mind, I feel like the Bookseller of Kabul is better written because it doesn't seem as extreme, and is more relateable. However, I feel that in total the books are too similar for the second one to have as much of an impact.