The Silent Patient

pre twist theo is the most boring morally grey white knight EVER and the whole story up until the twist is a masturbatory narrative of a psychologist with professionalism issues and zero boundaries

post twist theo is a holier-than-thou megalomaniac with a saviour/god complex and 10000000x more interesting and i wish we had more of him bc he's... he's something fucking else, man

but also like i wish??? the twist was... idk built up a lil more? idk. like i saw it coming (eventually.) but i'm annoyed lol.

ultimately one of the main themes of this book is how dismissive, patronizing and terrible men are toward women. and none of those themes are ever really subverted which was disappointing tbh

alicia's character was so interesting and was not done justice at ALL. seriously. we start this book off w women being silenced and we end it with women being silenced (bc the truth came out too late). lame.

anyway men are terrifying but this isn't news so