One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from.

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. There were many theories that I had by midway but then I just gave up as none of them made sense even to me and I couldn’t be bothered making an effort which I knew would eventually feel foolish and stupid. It was a psychological thriller that I shared with my friends, and we bonded over our collective shock at the many plot. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. There was a frustrating feeling with how Alicia kept quiet which builds up a lot of anticipation for the final third and the expected revelation of the book! I enjoyed the ‘back and forth’ between Theo and the silent Alicia. He is obsessed with Alicia’s high profile murder case and as a psychiatrist he wants to finally be the one who makes her talk and gets to the bottom of what happened that fateful night. She’s deemed unfit and sent to a psychiatric clinic where our protagonist shows up, Theo. The interesting part is that she stops saying or reacting to anything or anyone. (I would here like to coin the term mind-field. We have a loving wife who seemingly randomly shoots her husband 5 times on his face and kills him. The Silent Patient is an eerie, bona fide psychological thriller starring Theo Faber, a psychotherapist. If you’re one of the many readers who loved it, I’m guessing you’re a fan of an unreliable narrator.

The Silent Patient was the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards winner in the Mystery & Thriller category. #theguywiththebookreview presents The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides I like fast paced, engaging listens and save romance novels and literary fiction for reading in physical form. The Silent Patient is the type of book I wouldn’t shy away from calling the new representative of a whole genre, The Psychological Thriller!

Similar books to the silent patient