A review by sophieskilling
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

1.0

made me want to stop reading books written by men forever 

i just have .. so many issues with this book lmao. first of all it’s very much marketed as a thriller but i was not thrilled?? not very much even happened?? and the “”big twist”” that everyone bangs on about was 1. so obvious from the beginning 2. ridiculous in its execution. made me laugh out loud when i definitely wasn’t supposed to hehe!!

don’t get me started on it’s portrayal of women and mental illness and, worst of all, mentally ill women. sorry but that’s not how therapy works?? like, at all?? 

so stupid, and not even well written to make up for it lol. i underlined sections that could’ve so easily been edited down and made better like i was this guy’s editor bc they were so annoyingly obvious 

the pro is that i read it quickly - not bc i cared about the characters (i didnt! at all! i honestly couldn’t care less what happened to any of them!) but bc it barely contained a complex sentence so it was easy to