The Last Enchantments by Charles Finch 323 PagesNominally a story about a 25 year old putting off adulthood for one more year, Will travels to Oxford to spend a year studying literature after working on the disastrous John Kerry campaign. He will meet a variety of characters, supposedly forming life changing ties while cheating on his girlfriend and lying about it. Martin is an excellent writer and it is easy to enjoy his writing style and overlook the fact that the main character is a vapid self-absorbed twit.
Now I’ll admit I might be prejudiced by age and a reader closer to college age may be more nostalgic about recent college experiences but Martin fails to have any relationship in the book get past hooking up and drinking and vice versa. The most enjoyable part of the book was the petty politics of the common room committee and its characters seemed the most true
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