:INFO
My Confession About the Thriller I Resisted for Two Years
The Silent Patient sat on my to-read list for two years while everyone I knew told me it was incredible. I resisted because the hype around it felt out of proportion to what a psychological thriller could deliver. I was wrong. Alex Michaelides built a premise around a painter who shoots her husband five times and then stops speaking entirely, and constructed a reveal that I did not see coming even though the clues were in front of me from the first chapter.


:NOW
Reconsidering the narrator's reliability from the first chapter

:QUOTE [quotetype:plain, subtitle:Alex Michaelides]
Silence can be a way of saying what cannot be said in any other language.


:JOURNEY
Reading The Silent Patient
4 Diary builds well
4 Therapist layer
3 Visible shape
5 Executed perfectly

:NOW
Recommending this to the person who told me they do not enjoy thrillers because they always figure out the ending before it arrives. This one holds.

:POLL
Did you see the ending of The Silent Patient coming?
Not at all, completely surprised
I had a suspicion but was not certain
Yes I figured it out relatively early
I have not read it yet