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rianna.dudas

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I highly recommend this book if you are interested in reading stories that would keep you at the edge of your seat throughout the story. It is a psychological thriller that seizes the reader to read the pages until the very end. This is the book for you if you are intrigued with mind-blowing plot twists with a well-written story and narrative.

rianna.dudas If you like books such as The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, Sharp Objects, and Gone girl by Gillian Flynn, this book definitely needs to be on your “to read list!”
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rianna.dudas The Silent Patient is a psychological thriller and mystery involving an artist named Alicia Berenson who seemed to be living a perfect life with her photographer husband, Gabriel, whom she is deeply in love with. Issues started to arise when their life unexpectedly turned upside down when Alicia murdered her own husband by shooting him on a random night.

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rianna.dudas She was investigated and found guilty after refusing to talk or say any word after that incident. Years passed and she was admitted to a mental facility where she remained silent and emotionless. The unsettling murder that baffled everyone gradually started to fade from everyone‘s memory except for
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rianna.dudas Theo Faber, a psychotherapist that worked there who is deeply intrigued in Alicia‘s story and the truth behind what truly happened. Theo is dedicated to comprehending the silence behind Alicia and discovering the true reason for what actually transpired by becoming her therapist and slowly trying to bring herself back into reality. 6mo
rianna.dudas Theo has no idea that his work as her therapist will light up a path that was never intended to be found and pursued.
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rianna.dudas One of the themes that revolves around this novel is the idea of honesty and deception between the characters in the story and how it is able to turn one thing to another. The Silent Patient highlights the need of honesty as a critical component of one's own and other people's safety and security.
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rianna.dudas Deception on the other hand is also one of the foundations of the plot. This is made clear by Theo Faber's statement that “Choosing a lover is a lot like choosing a therapist,“ which suggests that one should carefully select a partner who is honest, trustworthy, and with whom one can open oneself without fear or judgment.
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rianna.dudas The Silent Patient consistently demonstrates how deception can affect a person and their decision, it is what manipulates to reveal the side of the character that they have been concealing. Furthermore, this theme demonstrates the connection of conflict to one‘s honesty. Alex Michaelides uses the theme “honesty vs deception” to intrigue and evoke the readers to unravel the mystery by examining the honesty and deception between the characters.
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The Silent Patient is a must-read if you like books that are filled with mystery and suspense. This book is filled with a plot twist that one can never see coming. Michaelides‘ novel revolves around how both love and trauma are what mold a person and their actions. As said in the novel, “unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later, in uglier ways.”

rianna.dudas Alex Michaelides writes this novel from the first-person point-of-view perspective of Theo Faber and Alicia in some parts of the story. Theo shares about his journey in Grove with his patient Alicia while balancing and battling with his personal life as well. He passionately expresses his resilience and determination as he gradually attempts to piece together the truth.
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rianna.dudas The story begins with Alex Michaelides starting off the story as if everything is perfectly in place. An artist named Alicia Berenson appears to be madly in love with her photographer husband, Gabriel. Their contented marriage was deep and serene and appeared to be filled with sunshine and butterflies. Up until one night, Alicia mercilessly shot Gabriel in the face five times with an unidentified reason, for no word ever came out of her mouth sin- 7mo
rianna.dudas ce that incident. This tragedy spread like wildfire among the community and made everyone despise Alicia for the disturbance of the murder and for remaining silent like a blank canvas that left everyone questions regarding the truth unanswered. She remained in Grove, a mental health facility where she unexpectedly remained placid and silent throughout the years, completely lost in herself. In spite of the case slowly fading as time flies by, 7mo
rianna.dudas Theo Faber, a psychotherapist, is captivated by Alicia‘s mystery and is determined to make her talk, being clueless of the risk and danger he is walking into. Theo is deeply invested in knowing the truth and never lets anything get in the way of unraveling why Alicia killed her husband. 7mo
rianna.dudas His journey would lead him to something more complicated and alarming that he would have never expected when starting a job at Grove and having Alicia as his patient.

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