She did not utter even half a sentence – not a sigh of a word or a whisper drowned out by all the noise. The scene was bloody and obscene, and the beginning of many unanswered questions.Īlicia Berenson will not speak. There they discover the body of fashion photographer Gabriel Berenson bound to a chair, a gun on the floor, and his painter wife Alicia Berenson sat next to the fireplace with a haunting look on her face. On a hot summer august night, police are called to the Berenson family home after a neighbour heard gunshots. It felt almost like someone had sat you down to recap what happened the previous season on a crazy show you’d only heard of before the new one started, and you were there to witness the rest play out before you. There was not much dancing around with words before telling the story.

One thing I absolutely loved instantly was how quickly the book sets you inside the world of the narrator. After all the hype and commendation with which she sold the book to me, I finally went ahead and ordered my own in paperback. I flew into the clean pages only knowing the premise of the story as my sister had begun reading it on her kindle a few weeks prior and couldn’t stop raving about a psychotherapist who scattered the pages with the ‘deepest’ quotes. Its been a couple of weeks since I read the last pages of The Silent Patient, and while usually, I try to review books as soon as I’m done with them and have placed them back on the bookshelf, life got in the way and this ended up living in the draft folder for a lot longer than I thought it would. I feel that it’s best that I preface this review by saying that I haven’t read many thrillers before this one, and I dived in not really knowing what to expect or look forward to.

The silent patient review