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sophielacombe 's review for:
The Silent Patient
by Alex Michaelides
UGH. I’m torn between 2 and 3 stars for this book because I liked the build up before the twist, and the twist itself, but not the two paired together. Together, IMHO, it made no f-ing sense!!! Why build it up like a detective mystery when it turns out the detective had absolutely no reason for detecting? Because he is the only one who actually knew what happened already?
The author made it seem like he was falling in love with her and she was manipulating him somehow, and then it turns out she’s (almost) completely innocent and was not manipulating him at all (except for one instance, but that was out of self-preservation and not a psychotic need to manipulate.) She was just a terrified woman with a tragic life and the “protagonist” had an insatiable need to make her life even more desperate and confusing.
It was posed as if he cared about her in a psychotic stalker who ends up killing the victim he is obsessed with kind of way, which is fine and makes sense, but the problem is that there was absolutely no tangible reason/explanation why he ended up that way. I don’t see how an abusive father alone would create that kind of psychology in a person. And the fact of him being a psychologist makes it even more unbelievable.
I don’t know. I’m just so confused. The pieces don’t fit together in my brain. I kind of hated it. But I did love the premise and with a different ending I think it would have been great. Or same ending, different lead up.
Ugh. My brain hurts.
The author made it seem like he was falling in love with her and she was manipulating him somehow, and then it turns out she’s (almost) completely innocent and was not manipulating him at all (except for one instance, but that was out of self-preservation and not a psychotic need to manipulate.) She was just a terrified woman with a tragic life and the “protagonist” had an insatiable need to make her life even more desperate and confusing.
It was posed as if he cared about her in a psychotic stalker who ends up killing the victim he is obsessed with kind of way, which is fine and makes sense, but the problem is that there was absolutely no tangible reason/explanation why he ended up that way. I don’t see how an abusive father alone would create that kind of psychology in a person. And the fact of him being a psychologist makes it even more unbelievable.
I don’t know. I’m just so confused. The pieces don’t fit together in my brain. I kind of hated it. But I did love the premise and with a different ending I think it would have been great. Or same ending, different lead up.
Ugh. My brain hurts.