I finished The Silent Patient which was on my TBR for so long and honestly I feel it’s not bad but too hyped by masses.
Theo felt like a great character with his troubled childhood until he was not anymore, at some parts I felt narration was too wanna be deep from Theo’s POV. Narration didn’t mention the timeline for Kathy and Theo’s angle and I’m glad(slightly) for that since I could see from miles away what’s happening there, so it was more about how it unfolds because you already could sense what’s behind the unfolding. It was a back n forth ride for me getting in and falling back for whole book.
The last scene again felt wanna be deep, for me personally. I didn’t hate it but it was just okay. It gave me similar feels after reading “The Girl on Train”. Not bad. But not that “must” of a read.
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.