Review: The Silent Patient

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It was okay. Probably I'm not the right audience for it. I'm not sure but I didn't get that satisfaction that I usually get after finishing a good book. At least this was not as bad as The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, which tried to maintain the suspense by cliff-hanger chapters and vague and overdosed use of pronouns.

The language was nothing much to write about. The story was decent-ish. Not my cup of tea. The biggest positive from this book is learning that therapy can be very powerful, with my biggest takeaway being the following Freud's quote from the book.

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways. —SIGMUND FREUD”

I neither recommend it nor would ask you to stay away from it.


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