ALEX MICHAELIDES NEEDS TO BE STOPPED | the silent patient rant review
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I was so frustrated that they never had him confront his wife too! Kept waiting and waiting for it.
Yes, that's definitely something that really disappointed me!
Yes that pissed me off
i think it shows reality some peoeple dont confront to not ruin their relationship
Cause Theo is a coward!
Because he was madly in love and was afraid he would lose her if he did
Immediately felt a savior complex coming from him. His determination is gross too. I wasn’t interested in his back stories at all 😭
Alicia's diary entries made the book almost unreadable. No-one writes a diary as if it is pure exposition. Diaries are thoughts not entire transcripts of conversations
😂 I just finished it last night. Came to find a review to see if anyone felt the same way. This is the first review I opened up. You're the 2nd comment on the page. Right? Nobody's diary is written like frickin movie dialogue. It was driving me nuts!
Holy crap! Yes! This was the main thing that jumped out at me. Absolutely no person writes in a diary like that. And the thought that she was drugged and managed to write in it again?? Get outta here! lol
@@ericadodd6973 oh yeah and then the near death drugging and then just rambling on in the diary. 😂
Ugh THANK YOUUU
Commenting on a writer's perspective: I DO AGREE! The diary should have been written in a personal way, not a way a novelist would write a novel. Alex Michaelides should have made the diary itself convincingly personal.
is it bad i read this in a six-hour binge read and i actually liked it !? i feel so bad that i enjoyed it now lmao
close friends of mine also enjoyed it, i just simply do not see the appeal of mr alex. i hope he finds a new gimmick for his next novel, but i would not be surprised if we follow another hapless therapist doing their job poorly.
I enjoyed the book
if u like it then dont feel bad. thats your opinion!
i did too! i binged read it in 2 days! i thought it wasn't boring at all
@@marijkehroest exactly. i also think that listening to it and reading it gives you very different experience. his two books will always remain my favorite especially because he ties in greek mythology and the mind/behavior behind criminals and those are specific interests of mine
okay i just finished this book and immediately ran to youtube to see if anyone else was feeling as betrayed as i did by what people were hyping up abt and im so glad you feel the same way. the whole unmasking was so sloppy in my opinion and left me unsatisfied.... like you rlly think Alicia would only attempt to kill Theo once when he was the cause of her entire life going to hell...?
my thing is i literally got the book because everyone was talking about the insane plottwist and it was literally so damn random it soured my opinion of the entire book. AND THE WAY INSTEAD OF CONFRONTING HIS WIFE HE HAS THIS WHOLE PLOT SCHEME TO RUIN 3 LIVES AT ONCE IS INSANEEEE
yeah ugh no this book....
it was definitely a mess. could have been a cute time, and maybe if i had read it when the rumblings of hype where there i could have had a better time... but this was just not worth the day i spent reading it
I agree with you. I just got this book on my kindle yesterday and thought that is going to be really good since everybody is saying that is really good. But for some reason, I just delt disappointed and kind of bored. I am at 70% of the book and I just don't feel like reading anymore...
i enjoyed it , he was a disturbed man and it was obvious but that’s why i liked it , how he thinks he is doing things for the good in his mind but he isn’t , i was hooked , i wanted to see how theo was involved in the murder, i enjoyed how the two stories merged at the end , i agree that “the grove “ was not a good place and no one was a good mental health worker but it worked for the plot of the book
plenty of people enjoyed it, i'm happy you did too.
I agree, the trauma that affected him in his childhood controlled him when he became an adult, that need for control of every situation like how his father did with him, his need to hold onto his wife despite ruining 3 peoples lives, the plot twist got me, but also I wished that it could have ended a little more clear, it ended vaguely …
I thought Theo being a terrible therapist was intentional since he’s fucking insane but they could have eased into it.
i understand that aspect of the plot, but he was bad to the point that it felt odd that he was hired on in the institution in the first place. not only that he never seemed to actually do his job and yet was never fired and they continued to allow this man to do nothing but waste his time with a patient that none of them seemed to be trying to help. it was just a little too hamhanded for me. i'm happy others have managed to enjoy it i guess
Maybe it's cause I listened to the audio version but I didn't find it boring at all and I loved it! The narration was awesome so I guess I got immersed easily 😂
late ahh response but same! I didn't really like Theo as a character but I chalked it up to his voice sounding selfish and ingenuine. now I know why. They did it on purpose.
The narrators definitely helped! I loved their accents
i LOVED this book but only bc i was rooting for alicia the whole time and i felt like it was obvi the therapist was sick and twisted? but this review opened my eyes thank u so much for making this
i'm happy you enjoyed this book, seems to be the popular take away. 💙💛
I went through a few different reviews because I am trying to get back into reading and wanted to make sure I wasn’t wasting my money on my first book “back”…. after seeing multiple recommendations for this book I was so excited that I read it in a few sittings, and when I finished I was… shocked? I had to look up reviews thinking maybe I’m crazy at how disappointed I was? Thank you so much for this talking about this, even though my time was wasted I feel very seen 😂😂😂.. also, side note.. why did jean Martin tell Alicia not to trust anyone and then it was never brought back up?? Did he somehow know?? Yuri was apparently also a stalker and people were afraid of Max but we don’t find out why?? So many details that could’ve made for an interesting twist yet weren’t addressed ever again. Anyways…. On to the next book I guess
Hey man! Just finished this book and came across your review/rant.
I was on the fence about how much I liked this book or not. But hearing you actually made me like it even more. Everything you're pointing out as wrong, I think is actually showing you what Theo really is. Being obsessed with her case, "her biggest fan", manipulating his way into being her psychotherapist, etc. From the start Theo is selling us one story, but actually showing us another, and once we know the truth about him, it all makes much more sense (at least to me). Theo tries through the whole book to sell us on the idea that he is here to help, but actually he is there to fill the gaps on the consequences of his actions.
He finds out his wife is cheating on him, instead of talking about it with her, he tortures himself, he wants salt, vinegar, everything, poured over that wound. That's the first indicative that shows us: this psychotherapist is actually really f'ed up. As you say in the video, we never get a confrontation with the wife, and (SPOILER) we then know that he hasn't left her after six years.
He then follows them and ends up hearing them have sex (which is actually more common than you think). But this time, he follows him, instead, only to find out that he has a wife. There is someone suffering the same thing he is, without even being aware. So his mission now is to "save" her. At this point in te story I recalled the conversation he has with his therapist, in which she tells him "I think you MUST leave Kathy.", and now wonder if she actually saw the darkness in him.
So he stalks her, becomes obsessed with saving her from what he is suffering. He concocts a plan to show her that his husband doesn't love her. He achieves this and leaves, he doesn't kill anyone, doesn't even harm them more than what he needs for his plan (some cuts because he didn't think about bringing rope, and some bruises to knock the husband out), he doesn't relish in violence, he has a goal to achieve. He wanted to hit his wife, but can't, because in his mind, he is a hero, a martyr. Once he gets the husband to save himself by agreeing to let her wife die, he leaves, leaving the gun because it's not his.
He never thought she would kill him, that is what kicks off this obsession for her, he needs to know why she reacted like that, and the fact that she says nothing during the trial makes things that much worse for Theo. He was her savior, but she ended inside a psychiatric hospital.
But then she is speaking again and has let him know that she remembers, that she identified him, she knows. So now it's him or her, now we see Theo as what he really is, what he has become. And after two people have killed her, her father when she was ten, her husband six years ago, now her "savior" kills her for good.
i'm happy you enjoyed the book, i'm still gonna say it's not good. didn't work for me. alex won't be getting my time again
I agree with your take too. It's fiction, it doesn't have to be real, I really enjoyed the book and I look forward to reading the maidens too.
It makes sense that Theo never confronts his wife, because he wasn't ready to lose her .
It took me a whole week to get into it and when I finally did I was excited to find out about the meaning of the pictures and all her art.... and none of this stuff mattered at the end
oof, i can only imagine the disappointment you experienced
SAME
OMG sameee
I just wish that twist didn't happen. I much wanted for him to actually heal her through the talking cure.
i just wanted my time to not be wasted. i was okay with the twist... but like, theo was never a therapist i thought was gonna save someone when he couldn't even save himself. just a pitiful man.
this ain’t a romance
I hope the pr team got paid cause they did a great job hyping those books. 👩⚕️
I am not convinced he actually has formal training in psychotherapy. The depictions of mental health are so heavily inaccurate and the insights into the psyche of the characters is banal.
that's very clear
I don’t read thrillers and I’ve just finished this book and I really enjoyed it! I was very intrigued by it and didn’t see the twist at the end coming at all, but now looking back the pieces kind of fall into place and make more sense, but there are definitely loose ends, so I’m not particularly thrilled at the ending
I was hoping he was going to confront his wife instead he stalked her whereabouts to find out where she’s been going and who’s she been cheating with. The fact that the ending was left off with a cliffhanger! The fact that he was the reason Alicia shot her husband and he was obsessed with wanting her to talk about what happened as if he was doing something good to help her. This book tricked me because my theory for this book was wayyyy off. I am pissed 😂
Isn’t that the point of the plot twist though? He never healed from his child hood trauma with his dad. When his psychologist Ruth tells him that he sees Kathy as an extension of his dad, and that he likes her or hangs on to her because pleasing her, and trying to make her happy, in his mind, is similar to the fact he never managed to do that with his father. So, it’s through Kathy he lives his trauma.
In other words, he never healed, he couldn’t even face healing by letting Kathy go.
“Um how about you just don’t hold people at gunpoint period.” 😂😂😂😂. Hilarious
The ending was surprising but random in my opinion. Like huh???
just a thought. i would agree that i think the ending is surprising in that it subverts readers expectations for there to be a twist, but i also just did not care enough for the subversion to matter ot me.
I thought the Silent Patient was pretty "blah." Nothing spectacular. Average at best. I did like the mystery behind why she killed her husband but it pretty much ends there.
if i had picked this up at random it could have been cute... the push this received? the love? it was set up to fail
I agree !!! I just finished it and I just feel it was …meh 😒 don’t understand the hype
I really agree with you.
Theo already knew Alicia killed her husband+why she became silent from painting's mythical story as Theo himself created that situation..So why Theo constantly pricked Alicia to talk,to say something?!
This seems so silly,no logical purpose.
Besides,For whole Time Alicia's diary how could she save up from doctor's,police's investigation in jail/hospital?
Moreover no Alicia's stuffs were allowed even to get Attached!I didn't get why Alicia handover the diary to Theo as Alicia already recognized him.
Theo seriously told other staffs,members that it was not suicide attempt,someone tried to kill Alicia.where Theo already knew it was him from the first place.
It was like he wanted to get caught up again doing blah blah not to get caught!!!
Omg someone finally said it it was so irritating
Unfortunately, the hype convinced me to read this book and I’m MAD. 😂 I’m so tired of mystery/thrillers about fragile, creepy white men.
i'm just tried of mystery/thrillers in general, they are often a flop for me.
Wow. this review is everything, haha. I had the same impression after I read this book and I'm not much of a reader ! I questioned whether there was something wrong with me, after reading all the hype about this book.
there is definitely nothing wrong with you, it just... it was not the move everyone told me it was going to be.
What I got from the crazy timeline shifts, was that THEO was crazy 😂😂😂 like when I realized he was recalling events years back as if they were present, I said that man is nuts and he, in fact, was nuts lmao. I think the confusion was to let us in on the mental health of Theo. He was a confused and twisted person overall.
I love both of these books!! The Silent Patient is written to were you are supposed to feel something is off, which is one of the reasons I love the book
i'm happy you had a good time, i can't relate
Thank God I wasn't the only one who didn't like it. I'm going to review this soon, and I'm glad that I got it from the library as well, and didn’t buy it.
Near the end, I wanted Michaelides to just hurry up and get to the "twist" that I had heard so much about. It was a cleverly written twist- but there were sooooo many plot holes (smoking in the hospital), red herrings (aunt and cousin) and frustrating aspects of the plot (didn’t confront his wife), that I really didn’t care for it.
I liked it, I didn’t know anything about it before I read it (like no tik tok hype) So i had a lot of ideas of what I thought was going on , I thought she had split personalities and he was one of them , i though he was really the patient at one point. I didn’t think a lot of it was real , as in I was assuming this whole book was either in theos or Alicia’s head , so when everything turned out to be real I was shocked and I didn’t expect the outcome , not because it was so unbelievable but I wasn’t thinking about the book in that way the whole time I was reading it.
Same! I didn't know about the hype, just about having a plot twist and I kept making a lot of theories in my mind while I was reading and still none of them really compared to what really happened
As a person with literally just a Bachelor's degree in psychology, I got about 5 pages into The Silent Patient before being completely unable to continue. The *number* of things he's doing wrong, with seemingly no acknowledgement that it's inappropriate. Like, I get that fiction is for entertainment, but if it's not even entertaining, this is just terrible mental health professional rep for...no reason? And then he did it AGAIN?!?! Completely agree with you, Monty, he needs to be stopped 🙃
Can you explain what were the things that the writer got wrong as I heard he has a degree in psychotherapy.
Self absorbed
I mean in his defense the mc is actually evil
Isn't it the point of the story? I mean the character being a bad professional, totally unethical.. I think that's obviously done on purpose considering his troubled past and the way he deals with things, I could never take him for a serious professional. Or anyone at the Grove for the matter.
In the end you understand he is a narcissist and the villain of the story
I liked the book. I just didn't like that Theo never confronted his wife
Same
That’s the point of his mental trauma though. He’s still living his childhood trauma with his dad through Kathy, as was explained by his own psychiatrist, Ruth. He can’t let Kathy go..
@@zafran20 ok cool..
I did really enjoy this book so much. But understand its problems. I just took it for what it was. I feel bad for enjoying it so much knowing how problematic it was 😬
You feel bad for enjoying it because someone on UA-cam doesn’t like it? Never be apologetic, if you enjoyed it be loud and proud.
no need to feel bad. it wasn't for me, but i'm happy the people had a good time with it.
I read The Silent Patient when it came out and was disappointed. Then BOTM chose The Maidens as one of their picks, and the cover is so beautiful, I almost caved and bought it but managed to resist. Sounds like I dodged a bullet 🙃
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DUDE I JUST FINISHED IT AND THE ENDING MADE ME SO MAD
Sorry I don’t understand very good the English language yet I’m a learner so can you tell me briefly what are the things you didn’t like about this book and its author ? Thanks 😊
The day i found this book in a book store, i gasped so loudly it was embarrassing. And after reading the book it seems even more embarrassing cs THIS is what i was so excited about? The plot twist was very underwhelming to me and i don't see the hype around the book whatsoever. The characters are sooo shallow, there is no character development at all, so many unnecessary charcters, then the whole affair arc was so frustrating. The book (in my humble opinion) is badly written idk if it's the writing style that i'm not a fan of or the flow of the book in general.
The biggest embarrassment is knowing that you read this book.
I bought this book and it was Extremely Awesome that it is my favourite novel☺
i'm very happy for you
@itsmonteprice and yeah bro ur reaction was Awesome 👌 👏 👍
Literally when I read the book I was like where is the thriller y’all was talking about. It was giving very much mystery at best. I never really understood why he was asking everyone if Alicia told them that someone was stalker her until the reveal. Mad red flags throughout the book. The brother in law was weird. Theo is unhinged. The book was making any sense the whole so I had read until I was done. The characters were all annoying.
mystery feels v generous. it's just fiction... contemporary really. but i guess it's easier to market it as something genre-y... i'm happy the people loved this book, but mr. alex has wasted enough of my time with his derranged therapists.
Yup it felt like the characters where just there to confuse us and make us suspect them they had no purpose
just read both books and couldn't agree more. Your review says it all.
Also can we talk about the fact that in the maidens he has the main character(cant remember her name, who cares) mention the silent patient to theo just to tie the 2 stories together, Which 1) felt forced af and 2) creates a Alex Michaelides marvel universe where EVERYONE has abusive parents....EVERYONE!
i too question who really wants the michaelides literature universe
my biggest problem with it is that I had just read the exact novel by Agatha Christie the SP is coppying from and knew from chapter 2 who the culprit was...so I just stopped reading.
What book of Agatha Christie would that be?
@@TheNostalgicKitchen Murder of Roger Ackroyd I think
I just read the Silent Patient,,, but didn't get the ending quite right. Does Theo get arrested? Did Alicia survived? Is The Maidens a series book with The Silent Patient????
Theo did get arrested correct
Alicia is in coma but unsure if she is brain dead or not, so her fate is unknown to us reader unless author talks about it
I hearffrom Reddit book readers that maiden is worse than silent patient, so do what you will with this info
I did enjoy the book and I also agree with some points that you made! I also was waiting for Theo to confront his wife like he mentioned twice within the book!
Theo also gave me Joe from YOU vibes
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if theo had given more joe vibes maybe i would like him more... or maybe if i listened to YOU now i would also call joe pitiful... much to think about.
Most Everyone here seems to think alike, so I’m wondering in anyone has read Verity? If so do you recommend it?
Verity was the best book I read in 2021. The best book I read in a very long while! It set a new standard for me. I would 1000% recommend it! The Silent Patient was disappointing all around. 😔
@@AmandaBellaa gonna read it, thx!
lol I felt the same way... I was FIGHTING trying to finish this book... didn't keep me interested.. I kept waiting.. and waiting for something "thrilling" I was looking for the hype.. and still have yet to find it..
Thank you for this review. My coworker wanted me to read it and let me borrow it. I think I was like 20 pages in and it wasn't clicking for me. I am glad I watched your review because now I don't need to read it.
👩⚕️ I love your level of petty. “.257 improvement” had me 😂 I made it an hour into the audiobook before I questioned how accurate the goodreads reviews were. Glad I found your video to save me the trouble of continuing
I just finished this book and I'm glad I found someone who agrees! I went into it thinking this book was going to be one of my favorites based on the reviews from other ppl on the internet and the fact that I usually like thrillers but damn I was disappointed and found myself annoyed 90% of the read
if i had waltzed into a target not being a big reader person i probably wouldn't have been as upset. it was a cute time even if alex was playing in my face the whole book. but the hype? that made it an attack.
i love these rant reviews and agree completely. they gotta stop wasting resources on this guy's writing.
i read this book in one day and i loved it! but this perspective is eye opening. it got me thinking that the kathy story and alicia’s story were on the same timeline.
I'm starting my own podcast and I have 4 pages of notes on how much I disliked this book. My favorite part was Ruth and that's about it lol
four pages? that's a little iconic of you
same i just loved ruth as well only. everybody else's annoying af
For me I'd give it 2.5 stars out of 5, the 0.5 is for the fact that Theo was the man who was "stalking" Alicia. But other than that I kinda found it underwhelming. The ending was confusing, it felt abrupt... It left me questions that I wouldn't mind not having answers to cos I kinda lost interest, even though I read it in under a day (but I generally read books of this length pretty quick). REALLY GLAD that I got it on a really good sale. 😂
I regret reading it.The storyline is soo absurd.
Its kinda making me feel sick,bad,annoyed(╥﹏╥) Absolutely hated it.
👩🏽⚕️ You're out here doing the lord's work putting yourself through this man's books to give us these reviews.
anything for the people. 💙💛
Why am I just now discovering this channel?! You're awesome
glad you think so 💙💛
Thank God I’m not the only one who felt this way! I kept reading by the 5 star reviews on GoodReads and asking myself “WTF book did these people read?” Because it, surely, wasn’t the same book I read…
Just finished the book & Im glad I wasn’t the only one disappointed with it.
I needed to know I wasn’t alone in how much I despised this book. The “twist”/unveiling was obvious very early on and nothing about the book, narrator, the grove or the murder was believable.
Wait I’m so glad I found your channel. You’re the moment!!!!!!
aww, i'm certainly happy you think so
I finished this book in two days because of the hype and as I got further and further into the book I realized it was going to be a letdown. I just read the maidens and it took me awhile to get into it because it was so uninteresting. But the way people talked about the silent patient I said okay he took notes and improved his writing style and trued again. He most certainly did not. The first thing I did was go to UA-cam and type why do people like this book so much and your video popped up. I immediately subscribed because clearly you're my type of people when it comes to taste in books
You’re not meant to like Theo that’s the point. Also the twist is that the events with Theo and his wife were taking place in the past
I'm only 14 so i didn't exactly realise how weird he was but i did realise when he slipped up a couple times through the book but i lowkey enjoyed it but the end was 🧍♀️ i realised it when he was stalking a 'girl' and i was like wait 🤨 anyways
from the sound of it, the maidens wouldn't do anything for me so it's getting removed from the tbr. one less book to read thank you for your service monte 👩⚕️
I was curious about his books but I heard there was so much wrong with the way he portrayed psychology and as someone who is working toward a degree in it, I can't handle inaccurate things like that. Sure it should be for entertainment but I hate when authors don't do their research and just have misinformation about a certain subject and especially with something like psychology it can be dangerous.
I was here for the book review but I am now here for you 😂! Love the vibe!
Totally agree with your review there were so many red flags for me whilst reading book. Everything was wrong with the narrator and I hated him and the surprise at the end didn’t shock me because he seemed sadistic throughout the book.
I thought the twist in the time perspectives was a cool idea but was not executed well. The last section felt so rushed and was just weird.
I enjoyed it for what it was but it was clear to me that this wasn't a great book and it was way too hyped up. But I somehow just couldn't put it down as the chapter were so short and I had been so hyped for I figured it would take a turn for the better. So happy I got this from the library
following you for this cus I haven’t been able to find anybody else who also hated this book. HATED IT! don’t understand one bit of the hype. every single gripe you had, I share, thanks so much for this video it was very cathartic for me to watch and I’m excited to check out more of your videos
oh and also 👩🏻⚕️ I got so giddy every time you called this book ass so true
i'm always happy when people that didn't find this book enjoyable stumble across this video
Literally I have the bare minimum knowledge in psychology. As in my partner has a masters 😂 and I just KNOW that I can't read this. If it's so far away from reality I just can't deal!
I read the book in one sitting 🦋 justt love this book
and i love that for you
I agree with everything. And the “twist” I knew half-way through what happened.
Your reviews make me want to read the books you don’t like so I can better understand the feelings fully behind the review. LOL Love it! 😂😂😂😂😂”Nobody is going to tell this man it’s okay to hear his wife f**King this man.👩🏽⚕️
Your review cracks me uppppp!
Yo, just finished this book and one word came out of my mind after reading this book: disgusting
I will be honest the twist shook me, more specifically that the therapist private life suddenly described having a glove and knife out of nowhere
It clicked me since none of characters had any stronger motive, what's funny is something a legitimate therapist of mine once said when i tried help someone "you aren't professional therapist" it basically means im no main character in which theo believes himself in, going detective mode and trying to read emotions and even an ego of on trying to up anyone who ever belittle him for bit,
One thing theo said that got me wrong, he confessed if he told all this to his old therapist she would be disappointed, but the truth is she would probably be more in line with disgust and rage and distrust, as she was very confronting person when he met her the second time so no doubt she would hate him if that ever happened
Absolutely hated The Silent Patient. As someone with mental health issues I felt it was disgusting.
I just finished reading this book and in all honesty. I hated this book. Ever since the beginning, I was suspicious about Theo's wired obsession with Alicia. Like I know you want to treat a patient because you are a Saint but, this bad that you would change jobs??? No way! I just knew he had something to do with her.
could it be Misogyny that ppl complained about book 2
I know I'm two years late but just finished this for a bookclub and needed to find someone that agreed with my issues with the entirety of the plot and writing as a whole. I was angered further when I looked into the story of Alcestis and they're NOT the same. I wanted so much to like it and couldn't. The premise was cool and it was terribly executed.
I also had a copy of the book that included bookclub questions to ask AND the author answers himself. The CONTEMPT he has for those with mental health issues bleeds into his responses and into his writing of patients as characters. He claims he worked in a similar facility... but like a what, a janitor???
Do places like grove exist or not?
that has nothing to do with anything in this book
@@itsmonteprice i mean if they(place like grove and real therapists like theo) do exist then why the longface for misrepresentation.Then Alex actually is making use of real life elements to progress his story.
In short if such places and people exist then no misrepresentation is actually happening.
I wanted to get back into reading after not reading at all since high school (about 7 years.) And this was my book of choice. I wanted something what would be engaging and help me dive back into reading without feeling bored or distracted. The Silent Patient did exactly that, I finished it in about one month and I thought it was actually quite good! I was going to read The Maidens next, but now I’m thinking maybe I shouldn’t 😂
I quite liked The silent patient but The Maidens is pretty bad. You'd better not read it!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 this was cracking me up. You’re right he got GASSED UP. Agree with all your thoughts. This is the first video of yours I’ve watched (found you via Kayla) but I’m gonna go on a binge now!
Yess I was soo annoyed and disappointed with the book 😑😑😑
i'm hearing this more and more after having read this.
LOL..... I am so glad that I didn't waste my money on buying those books.
This video just sums up all I was thinking while reading the book. Gave it 2/5 just because it was a really fast read, but to be honest I kinda just hate-read it. Really disliked the plot and especially the main character.
i'm still shook that people like theo as a character, and i like many a hated character.
Took the words right out of my mouth, head, and SOUL
👩🏽⚕️😂😂I needed this!! To be fair you still liked this a tad bit better than the maidens lol 😂😂
Ma man ranting about a bestseller before writing a bestseller himself because the author didn't comply with this guy's expectations
professional doing their jobs terribly and like medical professionals not KEEPING BOUNDARIES is one of my biggest pet peeves in books it just pisses me off ( i crossed this off my tbr the second the first person said the therapist gets obsessed)
Unfortunately I just finished this book 😑
A therapist makes the worst possible decisions at every turn. Like wow.
it was simply too much.
I am so glad someone agreess with me. Its hyped up so much that its baffling to see people actually like this. I was planning on reading maidens after this but nevermind that because i got enough of this psychiatric hospital slander. I have no idea why people liked it so much, it is not worth the hype at all.
SPOILERS
Theo could've confronted the kathy issue in so many other damn ways but instead decides to stalk her and proceeds to break into alicia's house and terrorize her for gabriel's mistakes when Kathy is the one he was supposed to be talking to. Its just so stupid of him to think that was the only way he could've dealt with it when its not. He even goes out of his way to get Ruth's help (that was not too bad) but then proceeds to do nothing about it. Its just overall filled with unnecessary plot and scenes that the book would've been better off without. This book was supposed to be about alicia and focus on her mutism but its just filled with theo's bullshit which was very unnerving to read. I was expecting the characters to have so much more to them and also a few characters like Gabriel's brother, the brother's wife and Alicia's cousin to play a much bigger part so that just made the ending even more disappointing. Its a one star for me (for ruth cuz she was the only good therapist)
I just finished this book, and as a person in the healthcare field, there were so many moments that just seemed WRONG to me. Like, there wasn't enough research into the medical/psychiatric field. I still got some enjoyment from it, but the medical discrepancies and some extremely poor decisions didn't make this a top tier book for me.
I’m currently reading: The Maid’s Diary by Loreth Anne White
Excellent review- I was not a fan of The Silent Patient and hated The Maidens. Glad that I’m not alone 😅
I don't think the book is bad but I kind of saw the ending comming, i mean he was for sure the villain for me.
There is no way you’re supposed to like or feel close to Theo. Tall me you missed the point without telling me you missed the point
just finished this book not too long ago very happy to have found this review
Completely agree. Theo was clearly unhinged from the start. Yawnnnnn
I also was upset Theo never confronted his wife and we never got to read that. I have not read The Maidens so I don't understand the similarities between the two but maybe one day I will. I also agree this was more of a mystery and did not feel like a thriller. I feel like this book was for people who are more emotional and have emotional impulse and don't really think or use logic for decision making so for someone who is very logical and sensible they would not get the book or characters. I did enjoy the writing style for most of the book. I preferred the first half over the second half. Theo gave off shady vibes later on so the twist was not surprising and I felt the book dragged that and the plot on a bit too much. I liked your honest review, thank you.
I figured they hyped this book for nothing and I bought it 😂🥲 like why? Thank you for your honest review!
hopefully it works better for you than it did for me
I just finished this book. How is it even a hyped up book. The hype made me buy me. I did not like it, it was a drag
"She DID shoot that man five times in the face" 😂😂😂😂 👩⚕️
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It’s the way you suffered twice with this man’s books. Truly a martyr for the cause and I’m taking heed because I got through the first 8 chapters of The Maidens before I finally called it a wrap. The interesting thing was the prologue and then the writing and the dialogue and being in Mariana’s head got real annoying real fast lol No longer interested in this man’s books and it definitely wasn’t worth the process of getting it from the library.
Not you feeling bad for the killer 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am cackling 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I hated the maidens so I am here for the Michaelides slander!!!👩🏿⚕️
Looking back at this book, I see your points.
I know I’m a year behind but I just got around to reading this.. and lemme just say I am pissed. The only person I was rooting for was Alicia and she never got the help she actually needed. By the end of the book I couldn’t stand Theo. Spoiler warning:
No he didn’t exactly pull the trigger but what kind of mentally sound and healthy person thinks it’s ok to stalk and terrorize an innocent person. Not only did she have to endure hours of mental torture but then she had to witness her husband the person who is supposed to love her choose his own life over hers.
It just pisses me off the most that Theo was so completely unhinged and coming apart at the seems in his own life and the book just seems to want us to accept it.. like we’re supposed to be rooting for him?? Maybe it’s just the way I’m interrupting it🤷🏽♀️ and then I read the FAQs with the author and he think he may continue writing stories with Theo…and I’m like 🥴🥴 no pls don’t the man needs a jail cell..if anything for unethical practice, stalking, kidnapping, and I’d go so far as to say accessory to murder.
Rant over 🙃
i'm happy that you were able to find this video at the right time, i never would have thought this little video about alex's little book would be the place for everyone to do their silent patient rants, but i love that it's become a place for people to vent their feelings about the books.
i will say that so far alex has only put out one other book that is set prior to the events that happen here. though the actual story isn't at all related and theo isn't a prominent character, simply a cameo... but the questionable therapist trope is definitely present and i do feel bad for the patients of the people alex writes about because they clearly aren't getting what they need and there isn't really much of a reason to make these books center around therapists.