The Silent Patient

The story intrigued me from the beginning and I like how it's written. The back and forth between Alicia's diary and the narrator's voice is quite smooth. I know that at this point, Alicia still doesn't talk, so the diary is a way for us to know her past, but I feel like sometimes her writing doesn't feel natural. More like a way for the writer to give us, readers, information. Especially in part 2, it's quite constructed.

I feel like so far, the characters are quite complex and they all have a solid, deep and complex background. I hope that the writer is going to keep exploring their backgrounds and make them even more complex.

Also, I didn't realize that the book would be so focused on psychotherapy, but I like it. To me, it's not at all a horror book. But I might be speaking too soon...

Update: I finished the book. To start with, it's not a horror book but a pure thriller, and reads like a detective novel. I got hooked and pretty much read the book in one day. The ending twist left me so surprised, I didn't see it coming! I feel like after Alicia's confession of her version of the murder, the writing dropped a little, but I was still shocked by the reveal. It's like I need to reevaluate all that I read before! I really liked the ending scene, and I found it very poetic -him letting a snowflake melt in his hand, then another one. One for Kathy, one for Alicia.

Read and reviewed: 2020-10-10