Alex Michaelides

   CARTE PUBLICATĂ ÎN 43 DE ȚĂRI Viața Aliciei Berenson este aparent perfectă. Pictoriță faimoasă căsătorită cu un fotograf din lumea modei, ea trăiește într-o casă superbă, cu vedere spre parc, într-una din zonele cele mai dorite din Londra. Într-o seară, soțul ei Gabriel se întoarce acasă târziu de la o ședință foto, iar Alicia îl împușcă de cinci ori în față și apoi rămâne tăcută timp de șase ani. Refuzul Aliciei de a vorbi despre crimă – sau despre orice altceva – transformă o tragedie de familie în ceva mult mai teribil, un mister care captivează imaginația publicului și o face pe Alicia celebră. Tablourile sale ajung la prețuri astronomice, iar ea, pacienta tăcută, este ascunsă de tabloide și de lumina reflectoarelor la clinica The Grove, o instituție medico-legală de maximă siguranță din nordul Londrei. Theo Faber este un psihoterapeut care a așteptat multă vreme oportunitatea de a lucra cu Alicia. Hotărârea lui de a o face să vorbească și să dezvăluie motivul pentru care și-a împușcat soțul îl poartă pe un drum plin de riscuri – o căutare a adevărului care amenință să-l distrugă... Pacienta tăcută este un thriller psihologic șocant despre un act de violență extrem al unei femei împotriva soțului ei și despre un terapeut obsedat de descoperirea motivului din spatele acestui act... „Un debut impresionant... Pacienta tăcută este o carte remarcabilă, inteligentă și plină de imaginație.“ The Times „O poveste plină de suspans, inteligentă și sofisticată... un roman excepțional.“ Lee Child „O carte pe care n-o poți lăsa din mână, plină de viață și care îți dă fiori, cu un final ce îi va ului chiar și pe cititorii cei mai avizați de romane de suspans.“ Booklist

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Laura Nisioiu

WOW! The ending made me stare at a wall for 5 minutes.. just WOW! The author managed to keep me invested and glued to the pages, highly recommend this book! 📖

Larisa Maria 

This book was so twisty. 
It made me question everything and everyone in this book.

Nona G

3.5* I don't generally read a lot of thrillers. I find them repetitive, there's this pattern that most thriller writers (that I've read) follow in order to throw the reader off the track. They keep shoving leads in your face, to the point where you start doubting every single character. I mean, sure, deflecting the attention is a great way to keep the mystery going, but this to me is boring and one of the reasons why I may read a thriller once a year. This and the fact that I keep comparing them to Stephen King's works and, well, they're doomed from the start.

But let's talk about "The Silent Patient". It was a fast, enjoyable read, but definitely not one I will remember in a few years. The ending was somewhat surprising, (view spoiler)[but only because I refused to believe that Michaelides really used the different time planes trope. (hide spoiler)] There were hints throughout the book, but I refused to believe that he would really go there. The story is told from two perspectives - both Theo's, the psychologist, and Alicia's, the "silent patient" herself, through her diaries; I appreciated this approach, as it gives a lot of insight into both their minds and emotional state.

However, I could not engage with the characters, not even the two main ones. They felt flat, predictable in their choices and unrealistic at times. I was unable to feel Alicia's turmoil and as for Theo, he was simply annoying from start to finish. It was interesting to see, though, that someone who counsels others and knows the theory makes the same mistakes in life as people who are unaware of how the human mind works. Everyone else was simply too cardboard to get me to care, barely breathing. Michaelides threw random stuff at us about his other characters, but the narrative threads were abandoned one by one, leaving us with smoke. 

I was taken aback by the author's unrealistic approach regarding the institute. I understand choices when you need to move your story forward, but, given that the patients were probably all convicted for different crimes, there's an absurd lack of security in the place and the only person who seems to care is constantly shut down. How come Alicia is instantly put on strong medication when she attacks someone else, but Elif is left to roam free, despite doing the same thing?

But hey, despite all, this novel was fun to read and kept me engaged with the story for the entire time. It may be forgettable, but I spent a couple of enjoyable days with it.

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