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Title: The Silent PatientAuthor: Alex Michaelides
Published: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 320
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
A woman has murdered her husband and she has stayed silent in the six years since, not uttering a single word. This catches the interest of a psychotherapist who applies for a job at the institution she's locked up in just so he can try to treat her.
Review:
This was a really readable and interesting book and I really enjoyed reading it!
This is a book I'd heard a lot of great things about before I started it, so that definitely hyped me up for it, and although I definitely enjoyed reading this, I wasn't as blown away as maybe some other readers were. I really enjoyed getting to know our characters and the story switches between current day and six years prior, and I felt like that worked well. There is something captivating about this that made me want to keep going.
I do think that we spend a lot of time building up to just one thing though; in the first two thirds of the book, there isn't really that much going on except just pure buildup. I would've loved more exciting things to happen along the way and because we spent so much time building up to the end, I found the ending a little underwhelming, even though it surprised me.
So it definitely starts off slow, but I do feel like it's worth the read if you like mystery thrillers. If you've read a lot of them though, you're probably going to be able to see some of the things in here coming.
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