A review by readwithbells
The Patient by Jasper DeWitt

4.0

This book was fast-paced and compelling in its internet message structure, and had a mystery that was very fun to unravel even if you could see where it was going. It was also quite disturbing and left me with a very deep-seated feeling of unease. I was actually quite shaken upon finishing this book. 

I think if I thought more about the implications of the entity and the story’s ending itself, I might have some more complicated feelings about the story and its discussion of mental illness, but I think the author did his best to approach mental illness and psychiatric wards with an empathetic eye and in the end,
just because some of the kids might be actual monsters doesn’t preclude them from treatment
. 

Fun for what it was! Definitely unsettling, definitely creepy, certainly earns its title of horror. I went into this expecting absolutely nothing and was pleasantly surprised. 
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