Sweet Dreams Are Made of Teeth

By: Richard Roberts

Narrated by: Henry Hanson

Have you ever had the nightmare of being chased by a beast?

Then you’ve met Fang.

He’ll be the first to admit that he’s a very simple nightmare. All he knows is hunting your dreams and dragging them into the Dark.

He’s not ready for his life to get complicated. He’s not ready to be dragged into his best friend’s schemes to make dreams so terrifying they break people. He’s not ready to love, or to be loved, or to meet someone who makes him happy.

He’s definitely not ready for those to be three different girls.

He’s not ready to grow up.

When he does, one thing will stay the same. He’ll stay an artist, and he’ll paint your dreams with fear until they’re beautiful.

©2013 Richard Roberts (P)2020 David N. Wilson

Far Out Character Driven Dreamscape

A wonderfully abstract premise ripe with potential for symbolic fantasy. A story of the human psyche told through shifting dreams and their personalities. Some of the elements are a bit 'on the nose' or simplified elements like having 'Self Loathing' personified as a character but this is the stuff that allows us to expand the story into introspection and deeper message. I was a little disappointed the book didn't have a deeper philosophy that stuck with me but it's end has a clever enough reveal that reshapes some of the perspective. The book often feels more character based than plot based in that the characters somewhat become the plot. I appreciated that it doesnt focus as much of plot and sometimes let's the characters react bound to their perspective. The narrator works here with a pleasant female voice for for the fantasy elements.

Here in the Dark

Could the things in the dark that haunt our sleep ever be friends we'd wish to meet? Does a nightmare understand love, friendship, loyalty? If any book, any story, is capable of making you eager to sleep, not to dream, but to meet your nightmares; "Sweet Dreams Are Made Of Teeth," is that story.

Every once in a while a story comes along that is so different, so out there, that it can't fit into any of the pre-made mass market boxes of expectation thrown at us year after year; a book that is so unlike anything else on the shelf that the adventurous, the curious, the weird, the imaginative MUST HAVE it in their library.

This book is that book.

Set in a rich world of nightmares that lives and breathes as creepy and unsettling as one would expect of the dark. It's full of characters, nightmare creatures, you can empathize with even as they repulse you. Characters who you cheer for even as they do the wicked and twisted things we expect, if not experienced, in our own nightmares.

If any part of you enjoys a bit of the wicked, the creepy, the unsettling; if you've ever wondered what the things that torment your dreams do while you're awake, then get "Sweet Dreams Are Made Of Teeth."

Join us in the Dark, in the place where your nightmares wait for you to sleep.

Wonderful World-building and amazing characters

This story builds an amazing world and populates it with fascinating characters. I love Fang and I loved watching him grow and change over the course of the book. The glimpse of the real world at the end is slightly confusing, but maybe I just need to reread it to make sense of it all. I highly recommend this book.