The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Book Review

Details of The Silent Patient

Book Name: The Silent Patient
Authors: Alex Michaelides
Pages: 336
Publish Date: 05-02-2019
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Novel, Mystery, Psychological thriller, Suspense, Psychological Fiction

Book Review:

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides this book was just so stunning; I gave it 5 out of 5 stars on Goodreads. So, I wanted to make a summary and hopefully talk you into reading this book because it was just phenomenal.

I've been recommending it to anyone who will actually listen to me recommend books.

Before we begin, share it with your friends, and subscribe to the channel if you want more bookish stuff. Okay, so "The Silent Patient," I listened to it as an audiobook.

I have not actually read it as a physical book, but I do highly recommend getting this as an audiobook because it's told through different perspectives. I'll tell you whose perspectives in just a bit.

But I love it whenever audiobooks have different narrators to narrate different sides of the story because then you really feel like you're getting consumed with the characters and hearing it from their point of view. And it just brings an entirely new element to any book that's told from more than one character's perspective.

The audiobook was amazing; both narrators were phenomenal at telling the story and just did such an excellent job of really making it come to life.

But I'm sure that "The Silent Patient" would be just as good as a physical book as well because the story was absolutely top-notch.

There's a painter named Alicia Berenson. She has seemingly the perfect life. She's a really well-known artist; her husband is a famous photographer for fashion magazines, and they just have an amazing marriage. And from the outside, everything looks so beautiful and how could you ever want anything more?

But on the inside, something has to be going wrong because Alicia murders her husband, which is weird enough on its own. Not only does she murder him for seemingly no reason, but after she commits the murder, she stops talking completely.

She doesn't talk to tell anyone what happened, not even to defend herself or show any remorse or anything. She just completely is silent – the silent patient, get it?

Alicia is sent to, for lack of a better word, a mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, whatever you want to call it.

While she's there, a brand new psychotherapist named Theo Faber takes a huge interest in trying to get her to communicate, trying to help her work through her issues, and honestly just trying to figure out what the heck happened.

Everyone thinks he's just pretty crazy because there's no way that she's gonna talk, especially to him. But he is bound and determined to start sessions with her and try to crack the case where he can.

Theo quickly becomes almost obsessive with Alicia and takes his job way past the parameters of what your typical therapist should do for you.

He starts contacting her friends, relatives, and people outside of his jurisdiction as a psychotherapist to better understand her. But really, he's just trying to dig up some dirt and figure out why the heck Alicia committed this crime out of nowhere.

He begins to learn more and more about Alicia's backstory, all the while doing these sessions with her in which she's still not talking to him at all.

Peppered throughout Theo trying to learn more about Alicia's life, we also begin to learn more about Theo's backstory and his current lifestyle. We begin to learn why Theo is so passionate about helping his clients, especially Alicia.

One of my favourite parts about "The Silent Patient" is Theo is our main narrator, but then we also have excerpts from Alicia's actual journal before she committed the crime.

So we begin to understand her actual relationship with her husband Gabriel and all of the events that led up to the murder, all the while piecing it together with the information that Theo is learning as he's doing his own bit of digging.

I cannot say enough wonderful things about "The Silent Patient." It's beautifully written; it's mysterious, it's psychotic, and it just keeps twisting and turning, and all of these different pieces come together.

All of these elements show how the human psyche can really be formed shaped and shifted throughout a lifetime.

A series of almost random events can lead up to such a booming conclusion to a life. And there's just nothing else that I've ever read that's written like "The Silent Patient" is.

I'm absolutely not going to go into any spoilers for this book because I don't want to take that away from you guys. This thriller is one that I can guarantee you will never, ever, ever guess the ending of.

I was driving in my car coming back from a trip, listening to "The Silent Patient," and when the big twist was revealed at the end, I audibly gasped and was just in shock for the next 48 hours of my life.

I couldn't even function because of how bad this twist threw me. I just did not see it coming and never expected it, and I can't wait for you guys to read it and have that same feeling that I had.

So, we can talk about it after. If you've read "The Silent Patient" before, leave a comment below and let me know if you enjoyed it as much as I did. And if you feel like this is something that you're going to pick up, which I recommend you do, leave a comment below and let me know that you're planning on grabbing it.

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