The Silent Patient. How does that title make you feel? What do you think about it? I was immediately drawn to this book just from the title. I didn’t bother to check it’s description and dove right into it. It’s a story about Alicia Berenson. A broken woman from a broken home. She is clever, conniving, complex and the true protagonist of this story, the one who deserved to be the narrator. As a reader, I was hungry, devouring and searching for clues in every suspicious interaction. I made notes. I studied their characters. I researched psychotherapy- trying to understand their obsession to Sigmund Freud’s studies, why they mentioned him and his studies so much. After reading once, I replayed the whole story in my mind. Needless to say, I was mesmerized. I couldn’t stop thinking about how wrong I was to believe that it would be just another predictable story and I can’t emphasis enough just how I relieved I was at being wrong. It was a page turner, a time stopper. I was reading contin
