The Silent Patient

by Alex Michaelides

[zooloo1983]

This is a review that I do not know if I can write. When a book has been given so much hype as this book, you wonder will it deliver? Well by jove it did and so much more!

The story which follows Alicia (Fantastic name by the way) is found to have shot her husband Gabriel in the face, but no one knows why she did, she has not spoken a word since that fateful day. We are guided through her journal leading us to that day.

Theo, is a psychotherapist, and he wants Alicia’s case, he thinks he can break her silence, that she has kept for years.

This book really is mindblowing and rather quite shocking. I will not talk about the plot because like most books I read you have to go in blind. The book hooks you in with the past and wants to keep a tight hold of you as we travel through the dual storyline.

I feel nervous throughout the whole book, I was not sure where I would be lead. Would the silence be broken? Do I want to know the truth? Will we all make it out alive? Will I now become silent? (Haha as if this could happen!)

I was fascinated by Alicia and her silence, the pages just flowed and I did not and could not give up on her. I was captivated and I had read this in two sittings (Life got in the way). I think I caught a fair few flies when reading this too! I mean jeez!! It is a dark thrilling and uncomfortable read but well worth the time invested into it.