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The Silent Patient
by Alex Michaelides
All right. I am willing to say that maybe, just maybe, thrillers are not my genre.
This was a perfectly well-constructed dual-timeline thriller with a plot twist that I did not see coming. But I did not gasp. I was not amazed. I did not, really, react. Because I felt nothing. Perhaps I have simply lost my ability to feel shocked.
An insufferable pretentious man prattling on about his tragic backstory and his attempt to "fix" his patient for 300 pages did not exactly make me compelled to solve the mystery.
And then there's the twist, which is about as mean-spirited and misogynistic as The Maidens. I swear Michaelides thinks women are just vases about to tip off of a table and shatter into a million pieces. Tragic and fragile and on the verge of nervous collapse.
Is it better than his subsequent book? Yes. Will I ever read this again? No.
Shoutout to Jack Hawkins and Louise Brealey for excellent audio narration.
This was a perfectly well-constructed dual-timeline thriller with a plot twist that I did not see coming. But I did not gasp. I was not amazed. I did not, really, react. Because I felt nothing. Perhaps I have simply lost my ability to feel shocked.
An insufferable pretentious man prattling on about his tragic backstory and his attempt to "fix" his patient for 300 pages did not exactly make me compelled to solve the mystery.
And then there's the twist, which is about as mean-spirited and misogynistic as The Maidens. I swear Michaelides thinks women are just vases about to tip off of a table and shatter into a million pieces. Tragic and fragile and on the verge of nervous collapse.
Is it better than his subsequent book? Yes. Will I ever read this again? No.
Shoutout to Jack Hawkins and Louise Brealey for excellent audio narration.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt