The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: The Silent Patient
AUTHOR: Alex Michaelides @alex.michaelides
Publisher: Celadon Books @celadonbooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: February 5, 2019
The Review
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- Gabby from gabbyreads says it was one of her favorite thrillers. With The Maidens coming out this year, I felt I needed to read this one.
💜 What I liked:
- Thre is a massive amount of twists and turns in this book. You suspect everyone but also don’t see the ending coming. It’s everything I want in an effective thriller. And days later, it stays with me.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- That there wasn’t more about Alicia and her thoughts. I loved hearing about her thought process.
💁♀️ The Characters:
- Alicia is silent, accused of murdering her husband Gabriel. Theo is the psychotherapist looking into her case.
🚦 The Ending:
- WOW.
💬 The Narrator:
- Jack Hawkins and Louise Brealey narrated it. Jack is definitely more clear. Even though Louise has amazing characterization, sometimes she is hard to understand.
💭 Consider if you like:
- Exhilarating thrillers and mysteries.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
📘 Summary:
The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.
Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, 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 something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.
Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him….