The Silent Patient in Around the Year in 52 Books

May 09, 2020 Wendy rated it did not like it

Shelves: audiobooks, mystery-suspense, 2020

I admit I saw where this was going from the beginning, and I spent most of the book hoping I was wrong.

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Sep 26, 2020 Caitie rated it liked it

Book 65 of 2020. I initially rated this 4 stars, but upon further reflection, lowered to 3. I was very into it until Theo went back to his wife. At that point, I pretty much predicted the ending, even though there the author left a number of loose ends that didn't make sense to me (the timeline seemed off, for example). At the end, the whole premise seemed pretty gross to me. ...more

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Jul 24, 2025 Monica rated it it was amazing

Shelves: own

I finally read this book. It was recommended by my best friend and my daughter. I enjoyed a good mystery or plot twist in the book.

Alicia is the silent patient. She murdered her husband and has not spoken. Theo is her therapist. Will Theo get her to speak? Did Alicia really kill her husband? Those questions and more are answered in this book.

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Aug 26, 2019 alli rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2019, authors-im-not-reading-more-by

thanks, I hate it.

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Jan 07, 2022 Hannah Peterson rated it it was ok

Shelves: aty-2021

Just to get it out of the way, I'd like to give The Silent Patient credit for one thing: this book is compulsively readable and extremely fast. I did read it in a day. I don't personally feel like readability is the highest weighted element in my personal book-enjoyment index, but I do like to acknowledge it, because I'm sure it takes talent to write that way.

However, despite readability, I don't think this book had much to offer me. Part of it may be that I don't read a lot of thrillers and rar ...more

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Mar 12, 2019 Weng rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-in-2019, mystery-psychological-thriller

I really enjoyed this, I saw the twist but was unsure and felt gratified when it was confirmed.

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Aug 05, 2020 Tweller83 rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-books, mystery, contemporary, adult-read, book-club

Really twisty-turny mystery. I was worried there might be some gore surrounding the murder, but there wasn't. I really liked how this turned out and would highly recommend.

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