Title: ~ ♥ Tell Me Your Dreams ♥ ~
Author: Syndey Sheldon
Setting:
Characters
~ ♥ Toni Prescott ♥ ~
We quickly learn that Toni is a mischevious, bold character. She's young, independant, not afraid to speak her mind and free-spirited. It seems that there is a lot more to her than that though...and there's plenty that we don't yet know...
~ ♥ Alette Peters ♥ ~
She's the exact opposite of Toni - perhaps this is why they get on so well. Toni tries to bring Alette, who is a sweet but shy, kind-hearted young woman, out of her shell. Alette's very in touch with her creative, artistic side but she has a lot of pent up anger building up inside her...
~ ♥ Ashley Patterson ♥ ~
Described as 'elegant yet haunted', Ashley is the main character of the three. As I mentioned, she's convinced that someone is stalking her, but there's plenty more troubling her besides...
Theme:
Toni is mischievous, ebullient and venturesome, very attractive kind of girl. Loves singing and dancing.
Alette is timid, quiet and virtuous though there is something always burning inside her. Loves painting
Ashley is intelligent, elegant and attractive. She's convinced that some one is stalking her and the nightmares come along in every sleep of her.
Toni and Aiette are friend but Ashley may never be aware of them if it did not happen. 'It' here is serial brutal murders with all men victims and all link to three women. One is Ashley's colleague who has had a crush on her. One is Toni's chat friend and one is Aiette's artist friend.
Three beautiful young women are the main characters of this thrilling story and they all work together at the same company - Global Computer Graphics Corporation. After a series of brutal murders take place on men all linked in one way or another to one of these women, we are lead to an unexpected turn. Who killed these men, and why? What skeletons are hiding in these women's closets? It seems that each character has some deep, dark past and it becomes fascinating as a reader to see their stories intertwine.
Plot
Ashley Patterson is 28 years old, from Bedford,
Toni Prescott is 22 years old, from
Alette Peters is 20 years old, from Rome, Italian.
They three work at Global Computer Graphic Corporation in
Three women work for a computer company. All of them have very different personalities. Ashley is sensible and career minded, Toni is fun loving, always looking for a good time, and Alette who is shy and of an artist nature.
Men known to all three women end up dead and after an investigation it is discovered that Ashley’s fingerprints and DNA are present at all the murder scenes. After being arrested she is seen by a psychiatrist and it transpires that she is suffering from MPD (multiple personality disorder) and that Toni and Alette are actually manifestations of Ashley personality. Whilst she did physically commit the murders, it was actually her alter-ego, Toni that was driven to kill them.
Meanwhile Ashley had no prior knowledge of her alter-egos or suffering from MPD, so she had no knowledge of killing anyone. This all leads to a lengthy court room battle to plead her case and eventually she is cleared on ground of insanity. She is sent to psychiatric hospital for years to be treated and after many hypnotherapy sessions it comes to light that she created these alter-egos because she couldn’t cope with being molested by her father as a child. It is now that you discover that the men were killed because they had attempted to take advantage of her sexually, provoking childhood memories causing her alter ego Toni to take control of her. After years of different therapies Ashley finally accepted that this had all happened to her and that she was suffering from MPD and even got to know her Alter egos and to put them to rest and she was finally released back into the community. As she left the hospital she felt free and was ready to start her life again, cured of her illness, or so it would seem.
Resolution
The book could easily be classed as a psychological thriller or belonging to the genre of crime. At the same time as finding out who killed these men we are unwittingly learning more about out three leading ladies...there's just something about each of them...something lurking in their pasts. Sheldon creates depth and builds up the story to a climax we were not expecting. The pace of the story is good, with it moving it one direction at a steady pace before taking an unexpected turn.
The anti-climax then makes for extremely interesting reading as loose ends then become tied up. But there's no neat ending, Sheldon's conclusion is one that makes you think the story isn't ending. Oh no, it's just about to begin....
But it's readable. He doesn't mess about, describing every little detail to the point where you forget the point he was trying to make in the first place - a lot of his writing is actually dialogue between characters. I have to say though, that I favor this style, and think it's the best and most appropriate for this particular story.
There are some snippets of French and Italian in there with the dialogue, mostly due to the fact that part of the story is set in, and one character lives in,
I like it when books do this, it's just a small touch and doesn't make a huge amount of difference, but just makes it that little bit more authentic. Alette Peters is Italian, and though throughout the book she is speaking English, it makes sense that from time to time she might say something in Italian. Still, this might annoy some potential readers.
We also get an insight into the thoughts of some of the characters - Sheldon writes these in italics as thought we can hear the voice inside the particular character's head. It's an effective device, which makes a reader want to find out more about these complex characters.
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