As always: let me start with—”why I picked the book?”
History, geopolitics, and self-help—naah—I needed a break, and what’s better than a thriller—so this book. Why this one again from the genre of mysteries and thrillers—300K+ reviews on Goodreads—had to be this one.
Alicia won’t flinch—Theo is on a mission to join the Grove to know the story. Alicia won’t speak for years, and she loved Gabriel.
Theo has a story, a story of her childhood and the trauma. And Gabriel is no more.
Is Alicia a cold-blooded bitch?—whispers the woman in the art gallery. What is she?
What does she know? Was Gabriel a saint? What does Theo discover?
These questions mutter in my head—I am at page 30.
And another 4 days—as always with a thriller piece—you are unable to put it down.
300 pages look a bit thinner.
The book moves slow. Subtleties are all around—you need to pick the cues—but still, you end up clueless.
Theo, Gabriel, Alicia, Jean-Felix, and Max take center stage in your guess-strategy—and you wait for the climax—you have your own logic, and you know what: your logic is defied vehemently by the author.
They all have their traits, some with biases from their troubled past—a past that will shape the future, as it always does—a dead, a psychologically dead, and there are some healers, and then: a truth prevails to set you back against your premonitions.
Love is blurred, but the hate is profound—tactics are in play, so are the evilest intentions.
The Grove holds all the secrets—a diary, a lie, unspoken words, and an enduring silence—but the truths are subjective.
Who will reveal the truth? The victim, the accused, the healer, or someone else?
If you like slow-moving thrillers, cherry-topped with an anticlimax—this is for you, without a doubt.
Shadows do not lie, and do not believe them—oxymoronic, isn’t it? Go and find out why.
Fellas, this is The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.