The story and characters just didn't hold my attention. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect.
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To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Theo Faber, a criminal psychotherapist, has been obsessed with Alicia and her silence for years and he finally works his way onto the staff of at the Grove, a secure forensic unit and then manages to secure the position of Alicia's psychotherapist. I guess I like a book that has a thriller structure or at least closer to one. I am thinking here of the fact that the phrase ‘borderlines are seductive’ is used a handful of times, never mind the fact that we are told Alicia ‘is borderline’ and the whole book centres on the fact that Alicia, a mute in patient in a psychiatric facility, may have killed her husband. It might be explained later in the book as a reveal but for me it weakened the structure. 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. The Silent Patient Book Spoilers & Ending Synopsis. The Verdict: A sly, hypnotic character study - a stellar debut. What makes The Silent Patient such a tacky slog is the consistently lazy, cliche-ridden, dumbed down prose. She wasn’t speaking anyway until Theo starting having sessions with her – he could have avoided it all….to me it just seemed all rather odd. It does not belong in the crime genre, even though crime is involved. As a psychotherapist, Theo Faber thought it was obvious that Alicia Berenson had suffered a severe trauma surrounding her husband, Gabriel’s death. There was a problem loading your book clubs. An okay psychological thriller - but overhyped, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2019. The story is narrated by an English psychotherapist, Theo Faber, dealing with a patient who turns mute after murdering her husband. That's my question, See all 196 questions about The Silent Patient…, The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides -> Starting June 5th, 2021. The twist was interesting, but a bit shaky - I think it could have been built up in a more beli. To see what your friends thought of this book, [ on basic ethical therapy practices keeping me from stomaching any aspect of this book was more than 320 times. Who cares about a mystery when you have to trudge through page after page of sophomoric prose? The amount of times I had to pause with this book and seriously think if it was my knowledge (which I don't think is way above average? Very little is really the way it seems in this addictive psychological thriller and it had me on the. Rather it is a psychological thriller, fittingly set mainly within a secure psychiatric ward. Also, the motivation for why the main character wanted to switch hospitals to handle the woman. I'm glad so many loved it because it eases my conscience a little about having to give it such a poor review, but I just don't understand how there could be so many comments on social media about this being the best book people have read all year.
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