By Alex Michaelides
Prologue
Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. 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. 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.
Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.
Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. 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....
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.
My review
I thought it was a romantic....
Well nothing.
It's amazing and full of mystery and makes you skip to next chapter again and again. It's amazing like seriously. You should read it. The characters were creepy but amazing and relatable. Psychology is crazy.
There's a sequel to ..the Maidens.
I will read that too till then if you're drunk on this book then give it a try.
I have read reviews on this book saying one thing only, that it was boring and confusing.
For them...
Can't you identify a book as a piece of art? Some books are like that, they aren't meant to preach about some specific emotion and are only written for presenting you a maze of events interrelated and a rich vocabulary that makes the scenes and the plot and each page more beautiful than just plain or monotonous scenes that are imitation of other's works. Some book solely focuses on the author's talent of presenting you an art of work which you are required to read and enjoy the confusing maze of time bound scenes and rather not cry about things not turning as you pleased.
If you're finding a book for a genre of phycology but want real love and steamy romance in that then ..
It's certainly not for you.
There's no problem in desiring to read that genre..
But sometimes it irks me when people look down on such books.