Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

194 reviews

lilalhreads's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, and Sexual assault

add_a_little_spook's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Gun violence, Infidelity, Grief, Gore, Violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Gaslighting, Suicide attempt, Murder, Emotional abuse, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Self harm

Moderate: Child abuse

tobydini's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Stalking

Moderate: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment

tashydashcb's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Death, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Drug use

Minor: Death of parent, Abandonment, Car accident, Addiction, and Blood

dalek_caan's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

This book was overall an okay read. It is definitely overhyped. The writing style itself was done well but that the plot and characters were lacking. In the beginning, I was incredibly confused by what year the book was supposed to be based in, considering the technology seemed modern but they were practicing psychology like it was the 1950s. Additionally, the plot from the beginning was clearly very focused on a savior fantasy. At the beginning of the book the main character says something along the lines of "This isn't my story, this is Alicia's," but then proceeds to spend most of the time talking about his own life and motives.

The ending somewhat redeemed the way the story was written, but it still rubbed me the wrong way until I figured out the direction the plot was going about 2/3 of the way through the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Murder, Forced institutionalization, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Death, Death of parent, and Child abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Car accident

Minor: Animal death

micaelamariem's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Again, as someone not into thrillers, this was brilliant! I do tend to appreciate characters that are psychologists because it’s my career field. It’s hard to write a review without spoiling much so I’ll just say I wasn’t expecting the twist! I recommend this! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Mental illness, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abandonment, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Drug use, Blood, and Grief

madamenovelist's review against another edition

dark emotional lighthearted sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abandonment, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexism, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racism, Physical abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Excrement, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Death, Cursing, Confinement, Child abuse, Car accident, Blood, and Addiction

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia, Alcohol, Vomit, and Body horror

There was a really irritating racist caricature of a Turkish patient. The only redeeming aspect was that she was not the only brown woman in the cast (Indira was a great character), but Elif’s one/dimensional This Lady Is Not Attractive Nor Motherly schtick was jarring and irritating. He need not have copied Agatha Christie’s flaws in addition to her best traits. That said, Alicia was extremely well written and very compelling as a tragic heroine, and she is why I give 2.75 stars instead of simply 2. Excellent, excellent premise but frustrating execution.

rachjy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Violence

rubberrosebooks's review

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I know I'm late to the party on this one but MAN, what an ending! By far the best book I've read all year. The chapters were short which I'm a huge fan of. I flew through this in three days, and I'm a pretty slow reader. If it wasnt for work and the need to sleep, I would've finished this in one sitting. I did NOT want to put it down. The narration was suberb and the dialogue was very easy to follow and kept my interest the whole way through. Absolute 10/10, HIGHLY recommend if you like psychological thrillers!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Self harm, and Stalking

chloenk_1011's review

Just couldn’t connect with the characters and found the writing style very jarring 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail