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Title: Potential to be better
Review: This debut novel by Arthur Phillips has tinges of some good writing, as he weaves a tale of expatriates living in Budapest.In the end though the characters are dull, uninteresting, and just flat out 'whiney' and irritating. I could not care for any of them or what would happen to them. Phillip's manages to write well at times, but I could not feel involved for these spoiled kids who were just in the prime of their adult youth in an exciting place. At that time in my life I would have killed to been where they were at the time.Also one of the only interesting and well written characters is hardly in the book at all, and that was John's editor at the newspaper. I was actually hoping to hear more from him but he was rarely used in the story.In a way this is a good first effort, but I think Phillp's just needs to write about something else. The title for this book is really misleading as well, and would better be served naming it Budapest.
