A review by ruairidh
The Complete Saki by Saki

funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

his short stories are so often precisely sized drops of eavesdropping on situations that in themselves aren't overly dramatic, but he tweaks the dialogue  just so and slips in such delicious one-liners. in the whole book only a couple of short stories were meh for me. the final play was almost an apogee of this type, but the novelette about an imagined invasion of britain was very different. there was a wistful sadness about a whole people and a whole land, not for something sudden but for a change over a long period of time. although less juicy, i think that was the greatest work of his in this book