Reaction to Tell Me Your Dreams by Sidney Sheldon

The story is about three young ladies, Ashley, Toni and Alette, working for a computer company in Silicon Valley, California. Ashley, who is the protagonist of this book, is a timid sweet girl who leads a normal life except for a luminous father, a famous doctor – Steve Patterson. Ashley feels she is the target of a stalker; Toni wants action in her life and frequently visits clubs to sing and play the piano during the entertainer’s break; and Alette loves museums and dabbles in vivid-color paintings. All three have bizarre dreams.

Five men are murdered and mutilated and each of the three ladies is acquainted with one or more of the men, yet Ashley does not know Toni or Alette. When the identity of the murderer is revealed, I stopped, how did that happen? Somehow, I had missed the clues Sheldon dropped along the way in which I later caught up to as I read through the book over again. It was found that Ashley was the one that had committed all those murders. She

I like the fact that the focus is not the crime but the criminal. Sheldon also tells us that crime has its roots deep inside the human psyche. He made me realize that, people are not born criminals that they are made. In the Courtroom, Defendant’s Lawyer, David Kincaid was able to prove Ashley Patterson Innocent with the excuse that she has MPD, in which he was able to make clear in the Courtroom. He painted Ashley the victim—victim of MPD rather than a murder. Since then, the focus of the book has been on Ashley and how everyone hoped she becomes healed. The crime (series of murders) was hardly mentioned afterwards.

Though, I do have a series of questions that left me thinking after reading the book (Questions stated above in paragraph 6). Overall, I think it is a brilliantly written book, all the characters were given equal importance and it was a pleasure reading through a fast and gripping story. The story got more engrossing by the minute I began reading it and kept me gripped to the very end. This book had all the things in it to make it a greaat read, murder, mystery, pain and a twist thrown in that made this book what it is, a great novel. The thing that kept me glued to this book was that it could have been a true-life story. I will add that on the whole, Sheldon must be applauded on taking such a debated subject boldly and managing to keep things glued to the very end.

I sure did learn a lot in this book. Multiple Personality Disorder was not particularly clear to me until I read this book. I will not fail to add that Sheldon really made all these fictional characters lo

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