The Maidens

Wow. What is it with Michaelides and writing books about british, broken psychotherapists who can't seem to mind their fcking business? Do you have something to tell us, Alex?I should've read this before the Silent Patient. Anyways.This book was stupid. I couldn't handle it. I wanted to enjoy and appreciate the greek tragedy theme going on. It was cute. But i couldn't shake the truth of Marianna not minding her damn business! Like girl, are you serious? Why are you doing ALL OF THIS???Anyways. There's a lot of gaps and stupidness going on. Here's a few. Spoilers ahead be warned.First problem: Henry. What happened to him? What was the point of all of this? Why was he such a man baby in the beginning, and a constant looming threat over the whole book, just to be ignored? Are you serious? Wtf????Second problem: The Second Voice. I listened to this book, so I'm considering it a voice. I always assumed it was Henry, or maybe even Fosker at some points. Is it supposed to be Sebastian? If so, why???? This literally had NO reason to be in the book. It's probably just filler, since Michaelides can't write a damn thing to stand it's own ground.Third problem: That stupid plot twist. Am I really supposed to deal with this stupid plot twist? You're telling me you made all of this, just for it to end like that? And with NONE of it having to do with Henry? Really? Really... Ok... cool....Fourth problem: Fred. Talk about a fcking plot device. Or maybe even the opposite of such. This dude played absolutely 0 part in any of the story, but also it seemed to revolve around him. Why did he coincidentally LOVE to swim at the place Sebastian died? Why was he “psychic” and have these “premonitions” Why??? Literally there was no point or realism to ANY of that other than for shits and giggles.


Any pros? Well, the dark academia setting was fun and nice. I don't hate Michaelides style of writing. And although it was dumb and cringe, the whole greek tragedy motif was kind of cute. When i THOUGHT it was Fosker that did it all. So you're telling me that the greek tragedy professor, with his greek tragedy maidens, was just a ruse so Sebastian and Zoey could get it on and stab Marianna in the back? You're joking. That's dumb as HELL.

All of the pros go down the damn drain when you consider all of the negatives. This was so lame. Michaelides, do better.