Sheldon was my teenage years hero, the first book that I read blew me off my feet literally. After reading a couple of his books I knew his way of writing.
Expect the unexpected is the motto by which sheldon lives and writes. But in ’’Tell me your dreams ’’ you cannot of think of the unexpected much less expect it.
Sheldon has very beautifully potrayed the characters of three ladies who are as different as different can be. The central character Ashley seems so vulnerable that u almost want to reach out to comfort her and with the murders around her a suspense builds. Now who can expect that all the three ladies are but personas of the same lady and all the murders are her doing.
Through out the novel u go through so many aspects of every character’s life be it the dedicated lawyer who was ready to forsake everything only because ashley’s father had saved his dying mother, the doctor who felt ashley was so vulnerable that he eneded up falling in love with her or different faces of ashley and her personas. At times u get to know abt MPD and are introduced to this disorder by sheldon. And then the cause behind MPD, Ashley’s sexual molestation and harasment by her own dad when she was a kid, the hatred that tony had for her mother......
And when u thought that there is only one page to read and finish the novel who would expect that sheldon had reserved the last page for the last twist a twist that knocks u so down so hard that u actually gasp for breath. This novel may not b in the same leauge as ’’if tommorow comes’’ but it is definitely not a flop or damp squid.
And so many readers missed the last part the last twist. I myself missed the last twist and got it only when I was reading it again after a month. To those who are checking this out so as to know what the last twist was I would refer them to the place where ashley told she would go and the place where she went. She told the doc that she would never see her father again and mark the train she gets on.
And read the newspaper article abt the buliding that ashley’s dad bought and mark the place where he now lived.