A review by hama
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

5.0

Trigger warning this book contains:

• Murder
• Guns, Gun usage
• Attempted suicide, discussion of suicide

The book was a thriller, mystery, and character study that dealt with psychological trauma with a magnificent twist that left me stunned at the ending.

“You become increasingly comfortable with madness and not just the madness of others, but your own. We’re all crazy, I believe, just in different ways.”

A general premise of this book is that it follows a psychotherapist guy named (Theo) that made his goal to interview and help a patient named (Alicia). And the patient (Alicia), seven years prior murdered her husband and since then she has not spoken. Plot-wise, that’s all that I can tell because this book can be easily spoiled.

“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”

I loved this book and it is 5/5 star for me. Mostly because it was fast-paced and I couldn’t put it down. I was so curious to know what did happen to Alicia and Gabriel that night and unconsciously I start to make scenes in my head that made no sense.

“I mustn’t put strangeness where there’s nothing. I think that is the danger of keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything, you are on the lookout, and you continually stretch the truth”