I like a bit of predictability, but I think I wanted just a little bit extra from it, something to set it apart from the thrillers I’ve already read and enjoyed. It’s highly predictable – I figured most things out 20% into my read – which isn’t always an awful thing. However, if you’re like me and have read many thrillers before, The Silent Patient doesn’t necessarily present itself as anything new and exciting. The Silent Patient (2019) is a contemporary psychological thriller from author Alex Michaelides. As a debut novel, it’s solid and hits all the marks of something you’d expect from a thriller. If this is the first thriller you ever read, then I think it warrants a higher rating. what happened to Max and what happened to Christian. I thought the ending left too many plot holes open that needed to be filled, i.e. This isn’t something that The Silent Patient offers, which left me rather frustrated at the end. I’m also not a huge fan of open-ended books, so this book was doubly cursed for me! If I’m reading a standalone novel, I like to have everything wrapped up neatly by the end, I like to have answers to questions. I feel weird about people writing diary entries with full, total recall of exact words and actions expressed in conversations, so this aspect didn’t work very well for me. It’s not a secret that I’m not a huge fan of epistolary novels. That being said, there were still things I didn’t like about this book. It was fast-paced, a quick and easy read for me to get through.

Blake Crouch New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter One of the most spellbinding psychological thrillers we’ve read in years. I liked the reference to Greek mythology. The Silent Patient is a swarming, paranoid nightmare of a novel with an ending that is destined to go down as one of the most shocking, mind-blowing twists in recent memory. I enjoyed seeing the little twists of truth hidden throughout the book, I thought that really made this an exciting read. I think they add a subtle terror to thrillers. Generally, I will say that I’m a fan of unreliable narrators.

The silent patient review