I read it because my mom really liked it and wanted my opinion on it, but I found it pretty meh. I don’t read much modern thrillers, and I liked it more than some I read, but it just wasn’t quite it. I didn’t really like Theo right from the beginning, simply because he was a psychotherapist, but he was continually rubbing me the wrong way so I wasn’t surprised by the twist. It just felt kinda cheap. I found it an easy read at least.

Thanking you all for the feedback and scratching it off my list for now

I thought this book flat out stunk

Yeah i wasn’t a fan of the ending either

It’s really rare that I don’t remember anything about a book. But The Silent Patient was so unremarkable, I completely wiped it from my memory.

Hated this book. HATED it. I vaguely remember the ending that everyone else is annoyed but, but the shoddy writing was really the downfall for me. Go back and flip through—every single chapter ends with the same cliche ending that goes like this…

Or does it?

Meh. I kind of hate this book for all the reasons you listed.

I based people’s book recommendations to me by the popular books that I dislike. OoOoOh so YOU love Silent Patient? That’s cool!! ((((Next)))).

Same. A couple people raves about this book, insisted I read it. I couldn’t even get through it, it was so bad.

I read this and The Maidens and it seems this author is a good writer and can start a story well, but the endings… like how does he consistently lose the plot??

I was painting a couple of rooms at the time so I listened to the whole book in one day. This was a bad decision because it meant I didn’t have a chance to forget or overlook any details. I wish I had. Instead, everything was fresh in my mind, so I completely understood everything that was going on at all times. As you would.

So at that key moment of the book, because of the dramatic pause alerting me, I actually put my paintbrush down, looked at my phone and thought: oh no, I hope that’s not why this book is so highly rated. But of course that is exactly it. The book has nothing else to it.

I had thought it was part of the narrative all along so the book fell completely flat for me.

! i finished this book about a week ago, the whole time i practically had no reaction I expected everything, wasn’t shocked. And then at the end of the book when the author shows a snipped of Maiden’s. I said to myself " really? why…

I think this author is just. . .terrible. I read The Maidens and was agog at how poorly it was written, how dumb the plot was (so many illogical red herrings), and how badly drawn the characters were. I’m amazed he gets any hype at all.

one of the most misogynistic books i’ve ever had the displeasure of reading. also i guessed the plot twist so early on it was absurd.

The unreliable narrator kind of became its own genre briefly - Gone Girl, Girl on a Train, Silent Patient - I hated all of them. As a reader it is super easy for the writer to just flat out lie to me, and then create this big shocking twist that everything I’ve been reading is a lie. It strikes me as lazy writing.

That said, the Silent Patient is even worse than that, because the lies were to poorly constructed that I picked the murder on page 9. Literally. As I was just starting the book, I said to my wife “if the killer turns out to be so and so, this book will suck.” And suck it did.