When a Hypocrite Becomes Psychotherapist
I love reading exciting thriller or detective story when I was a bit younger. Probably because I didn’t have much experience about life, so I’d always like to seek for excitement, crime, and intricate story line, to show I’m smart enough to get the truth right.
As growing older, I prefer prose, short story or poetry that don’t necessarily have fast-paced and exciting plot but only slow move and reflective thoughts. So the read of The Silent Patient comes actually after a long gap of thriller in my reading life.
But the read is definitely an enjoyable experience. It is for sure a compelling and intriguing story that makes the reader unstoppable for continue reading.
Besides this general comment, I’d like to cover things I found particular and worth a discussion here.
The Timeline of the Events
I wrote the book review a few days earlier in Mandarin. At the time I have browsed over some reviews on Internet in my language, but none of them seem to mention this. So I thought I was the strange one to not get the timeline of two story lines.
Then I found another review on this book (written by Tahmina Khaleel; it is an…
