Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

13 reviews

edoering's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Murder

Moderate: Addiction and Death

Minor: Stalking, Rape, and Car accident

brandywyne's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Murder, Alcohol, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death of parent, Mental illness, Stalking, Suicide, Car accident, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Grief, and Violence

saskiahill's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Blood, Car accident, Stalking, Murder, Violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Drug use, Death of parent, Death, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gore, Torture, and Gun violence

Minor: Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Rape

rodi_queen's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

While I read this book, I found it mildly confusing when we were reading from the leading males perspective, especially in the context of how this was starting to take place over the span of 7 years and instead it just bounces back and forth between the past and present with little to no indication of the time lapse or jump.  

Also the leading female is considered beautiful and almost sexually referenced many times from the male’s perspective even though she is in a psychiatric ward due to killing her husband while she is in the main characters therapeutic care. 

The story it explains is a 5, Alcestis is an under appreciated literary piece in Greek history. The stories use of common reconstructed modern greek religion was a surprisingly pleasant piece of the novel. The Arete with Alicia’s father and husband, Xenia in the process of ritualized friendship explored by the character Jean-Felix and a strong emphasis placed on the two main characters trying to achieve Eudaimonia through freedom mostly and a couple points in self-suffiency. If exercises Greek traditions in that way. 

However, execution needs to be more direct in its timing of the story and the writing could be stronger on the female and male characters alike. In honesty, this book felt as if Alex was banking on the story of Alcestis and Greek culture to really sell his novel. In honesty that’s why I bought it so it worked, I was disappointed overall by how the characters were written and how the story was executed. Otherwise it’s a decent and interesting read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Misogyny, Violence, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

kat_0w0's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Rape, and Murder

Moderate: Stalking, Self harm, and Infidelity

anton13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

First of all I would jus like to say I love the attention to detail this has. Like the way it all connects in the end is amazing. At this point I’ve been staring at the wall for minutes just processing everything that happened. I never saw that coming and I still can’t believe it. I wanted to believe Alicia so much but so much pointed to her but wow ok- I- I’m at a loss of words. I can’t explain how amazing this book is. As things twist and turn I started to have different theories but I could’ve never gotten to the conclusion if they hadn’t just come out and said it at the end like they did. I would’ve never thought them to be who they are. I’m gonna need to take a few more minutes just to really let it sink in how good it actually is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Suicide attempt, Violence, Infidelity, Death, Murder, and Stalking

Moderate: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Car accident, and Self harm

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual assault, Drug use, Vomit, Rape, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, and Domestic abuse

thebookpaiges's review

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Blood, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Stalking, Alcohol, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Cursing, Grief, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, and Rape

magical_mads's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

The book had a grip on me right up towards the end. The ending was a little underwhelming, but I definitely wouldn’t call it predictable. All in all a great debut novel, and I’m excited to see what this write comes up with next!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Stalking, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug use, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Infidelity, Rape, and Gaslighting

kstericker's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Infidelity, Confinement, Stalking, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Child abuse, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, and Death

Minor: Sexual violence, Car accident, and Rape

_gabi_'s review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Gun violence, Murder, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship