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I ended up hating this book
SPOILERS! PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! Hopefully that's enough. I ended up hating this book. It was a complete cheat. A good twist is one you don't see coming, but if you go back and reread the book, the clues were there. You just didn't put it together. At the very least, nothing in the book is an outright lie or intentionally misleading. What a good twist is not is a first person POV narrator presenting events as if they're happening at the current time when they actually happened six years earlier. The author intentionally misled the reader when it came to the chronology so that they couldn't figure out the twist. That's just cheating and misdirecting in the cheapest, worst, most underhanded and manipulative way possible. That, to me, is not a good book. Plus the writing was meh. When I read a book, I highlight sentences and passages that I love. There are very few highlights in this book.
March 2019 · Books · verified purchase
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The Silent Patient
4.4★ · 261,666 ratings, as of 2023
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