Review: Interesting enthralling tales that make you think
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 24, 2014
The theme of Maria Savva’s three excellent stories is that of how all the various things we do in our lives colour our futures, and no matter how much you think your past is over, it’s always lurking there somewhere, waiting to impinge on your everyday life in the most unexpected of ways.What I like about Maria’s stories is that she is the master of the unexpected, of the final twist that you didn’t see coming.  They’re reads that make you think, and almost make you say out loud at the end, ‘I’d never have thought of that!’The first story is about a sinister childhood secret.  Tom has a new girlfriend.  But when she tells him a little bit about her life, and all about a tragic family secret, events take an unexpected turn.. .The second story about a girl who’s getting married.  Is there something she doesn’t know about her husband to be?And the third yarn is all about revenge, but a totally unexpected kind of revenge that you don’t know about until right at the end.These are lively, interesting tales that set you thinking, from a writer who has got the knack of  revealing an unexpected ending down to a very fine art indeed.