"The Silent Patient" by Alex Michaelides Review

39/30: The Silent Patient by @alex.michaelides

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 Mini Description: Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. Until one evening her husband Gabriel returns home late, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into a mystery that captures the public imagination.

Theo Faber, a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia, finally gets his chance to do so and he is determined to get her to talk. But will he get the answers he's looking for?

👍:

📖 short chapters

🤔super engaging and intriguing

📝diary entries paired with Theo's investigation was a great mix

😱mind blowing ending

✍️incredibly written

🌪twists & turns like you've never seen before

👩🏼‍💻well developed

🧅complex and multi-layered

😳pulse-pounding suspense

🧠psychological thriller

👎:

📝although I enjoyed the diary entries, they were so obviously written by a male author

👯‍♀️ all of the women were written as such MEH characters

💭Recommend?: yes! I think this book definitely deserves the hype and I enjoyed it way more than The Maidens. It's an exceptional thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat and guessing throughout.