So onto the meat of this story – what initially drew me in was the synopsis of Alicia killing her husband and then never speaking another word.
I think Michaelide’s honored the profession and despite being a pretty intense thriller and how easily it could’ve been done, therapy was never vilified but admired. The whole “and how does that make you feel” line really annoys the crap out of me because that’s not what therapy is about. Something that irks me to no end, is the way the entertainment industry portrays not just people who attend therapy but therapists themselves. So first things first, as someone who has an undergraduate degree in Psychology (which means next to nothing in the field) but who has also been a major advocate and participant in therapy I loved the way it was portrayed in this book. Then, ever so slowly, she feeds his feelings back to him. A patient delegates his unacceptable feelings to his therapist and she holds everything he is afraid to feel, and she feels it for him. What follows is easily one of the most suspenseful, exciting, thrilling and surprising stories I’ve read in quite a long time.Īt the time I didn’t understand. At a slow, but not tedious and incredibly suspenseful pace, Alicia begins to open up and little bits and pieces of her story are falling out left for the reader and Theo to put together. As he carefully but steadily dismantles his promising career and life in order to get a job at The Grove, where Alicia is being housed he moves his pieces about the chess board of life and gets closer and closer to Alicia hoping to uncover her story and get her to tell what happened between her and Gabriel once and for all.Īs it turns out, Alicia feels a draw to Theo as well. Coming from a painful upbringing and life himself, Theo see’s parts of him in Alicia and he believes, no he knows that he can help Alicia heal. Theo Farber is a criminal psychotherapist and he’s been following Alicia’s story since the beginning. Love is deep and calm – and constant.” *can I get an AMEN* It’s boring, if seen from a perspective of high drama. But, real love is very quiet, very still. About how we often mistake love for fireworks – for drama and dysfunction. Years and years go by, and still Alicia doesn’t say a word. As she’s saved from the death penalty and instead put in a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, still she doesn’t say a word. Alicia sits idly by in the court room as she is vilified and damned for killing the only man she’s ever truly loved and still, she says nothing. Only, that brick wall is Alicia and she’s refusing to say a word.
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However, as with all thrillers that quickly comes crumbling to the ground when Alicia is found standing over her dead husbands body – after being shot in the face six times – and covered in both of their blood.Īs everyone around Alicia grapples with this terrifying series of events and struggle to come up with a defense not just to save Alicia’s life but to understand how this could’ve happened their met with a brick wall.
They’re young, they’re beautiful and they’re head over heels in love with one another. Alicia is an up and coming painter and Gabriel is a noted fashion photographer. So needless to say, I quite loved this book.Īlicia Berenson was thirty-three years old when she killed her husband.Īlicia and her husband Gabriel are the *perfect* couple. However, what actually happened, was me zooming through this thrill ride at break-neck speed and finishing it in less than 12 hours (I had to sleep ok). So first off, can I get a “hell yeah” for Alex Michaelides for this stunning debut of a novel! I ordered this on a whim on Amazon because I didn’t want to wait through the 86 holds at my library and when it came in the mail I decided just to take one little peak. However, I’m going out of town this weekend so I’ve got a lot of car hours ready for me to burn through some reads! I was killing the reading game in January but I’ve fallen a bit behind in February but we’ve got time to make that up! Anyway, today I’m bringing ya’ll a review for The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides along with a recipe for a lightened up chicken curry! Thank you to my neighbors for not noticing me creeping in their yard for this picture. So I made my husband some Belizean food in honor of our Honeymoon and we had a very nice, very low-key evening with our pupper. I hope everyone had a fab-u-lous Valentines day, celebrating it however you enjoy or not celebrating it at all! I personally hate going out on important days (holiday, birthday, whatever) and prefer to cook at home.
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It’s Friyay ya’ll! I’ve personally been a bit under the weather the last couple of days and kind of just vegging out to TV on the couch while I recover so I haven’t gotten a lot of reading done *woe is me*.
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