A review by coffeedrops
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

5.0

SpoilerI feel oddly calm. I thought the ending was going to be something much more suspenseful, but it wasn't, and I liked it that way. I like the ending. It's not a very clear ending, but also not one that's too open-ended? (I hope I'm making sense, it's 5:05 AM right now.)


I genuinely don't know how to describe how I feel about it at the moment, maybe I'll write about it when I wake up tomorrow, that is, if I end up getting any sleep after this. This book had be interested from the very beginning and managed to keep it that way until the very end. It hasn't been that long since I started reading books, but the ones I did read didn't really stick with me. I liked some of the books I read, and some I didn't. But never before did a book leave a hole in my heart after I finished reading it. A hole that I want to fill desperately by reading something like this again, and experience this feeling of wanting keep reading something, practically being unable to stop yourself once you're in it. I am a big anime fan, I've watched my fair share of it—enough to have own opinions on it at least, more than 600 shows to be more specific—and I remember feeling the same way as I am feeling now after I finished watching Shinsekai Yori (Eng title: From the New World)

I know I'm way off-topic now, but I just wanna keep writing about it now, and I will. Maybe this is it, the answer to how I can fill this hole. To do it I'll have to try out something completely different. Like how I experienced this again after reading a book, not after watching an anime. To this day, no other anime had managed to leave me as thirty for just a drop more as Shinsekai Yori had, but this time a book—a novel—had managed to do it. Anyways... I really liked this book and it's an experience memory I won't forget.