Alicia kills her husband and ends up in a mental hospital. After the murder, Alicia has refused to say a word. Some psychotic psychotherapist is obsessed with her case, and tricks himself into working in the same mental hospital.
Alex Michaelides' The Silent Patient (affiliate link) is a really boring book. Pointless rambling about the life, everyday life, past, thoughts of the pointless main character, a psycho. It's not interesting, and none of it has any significance to the plot.
When compared to the previous thriller I read, "The Inmate", which was a real thriller unlike this boredom.
How can anyone praise this as "smart and inventive"? Who can read hundreds of pages of nonsense just for the sake of some kind of resolution? Yeah, of course everything is wrapped up in a really nice package at the end.
I regret dragging this 454-page book home from the library, and I'm not interested in reading more by this author.
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