If you’ve read the book I’m more than happy to gossip about it! I found Theo’s techniques with Alicia very interesting. I can somewhat understand the notion of helping someone in need but to almost obsess over it? It seems a bit much to me, I don’t know what you guys think tho. Uhm, yes…What a peculiar human being! I must say…this almost obsession like need to make Alicia talk again seemed very weird to me. Then there is Theo, our other main character. I tried to figure out what kept her silent but that was truly difficult and it was masterly written by Michaelides! The way he managed to weave the story like he did truly takes an amazing author because the story is fairly simple yet complicated. I found Alicia to be the most intriguing one. There is some really interesting characters in this book.

This might seem weird but it also makes very much sense since Alicia don’t speak. It literally kept me glued to the last page! There is a nice flow to the story which balance the more intense parts of it very nicely! We alter between Theo’s and Alicia’s perspective where Theo’s perspective is set to the present time of the book whereas Alicia’s is past time. I had even less time to think about the ending before i approached the end of the book.

As usual I’m horrible at guessing the ending, but what I really appreciated was that everything was revealed at a time that was so perfect it couldn’t be better timed! I was so engrossed by this book when I got into it that I struggled to put it down. The Silent Patient must be the best psychological thriller I’ve read thus far! I haven’t read that many but its a genre I’ve come to appreciate so I’ll read more of them in the nearby future. 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…. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. 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. 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. The synopsis is borrowed from Goodreads:Īlicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect.

You can check her out on for more! I really enjoyed myself whilst reading this book and I think I might be persuaded to try more thrillers in the future. I finished this brilliant thriller over the past weekend! It’s a recommendation from my bookfriend BookmarkThat and as usual her recommendations are exceptional.

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides