Review: Satisfying plots, engaging characters and catchy endings
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2013
The best short stories have interesting characters, satisfying plots and catchy twist endings, and I can tell you that Maria Savva's collection of stories, Delusion and Dreams, has all of these in abundance.  The characters are certainly many and varied: a foolish old man pursuing a younger woman, a pilfering postman, a boy with multiple phobias, a delightful young couple who befriend elderly neighbours, the many different protagonists are as varied as they are interesting.  It's impossible to outline the stories without giving away the endings, so I'll just say that if you like catchy, satisfying totally accessible reads, you'll love Delusion and Dreams.  Maria Savva's strength is to get 'inside the skin' of ordinary people and establish their motives for good and for evil and dangle the possibilities before your eyes until an ending you never saw coming leaps up and catches you by the throat.  A good satisfying read that you'll thoroughly enjoy.