Reading progress update: I've read 41%.
I don't know how to say this, but this third installment of the Balkan Trilogy is utterly, utterly boring.
It's all about the ex-pats bickering among themselves about such trivial matters that it makes me look forward to finishing the book for the sake of finishing it rather than to see how the characters will fare by the end of their time in Greece...presumably they have to move because of the advance of German troops.
But yeah, I really could not care less about anything in this book so far, and we certainly do not get to know anything about the Greek people that ex-pats are interacting with. Or are they interacting with any of the local population?