Genre: Psychological Thriller
Pages: 323
Rating: 4/5
“Remember, love that does not include honesty does not deserve to be called love”
Thankfully this book did not give that cliché vibe of a psychological thriller book and I was hooked by the first chapter. I did not even know a psychotherapist was an actual thing until this book, so I am glad for the education.
The whole story bordered around Theo, a troubled psychotherapist and Alicia, an even more troubled psycho who refused to speak after the death of her husband. Hence Theo who became intrigued by Alicia’s story was determined to get to the crux of the matter, be the hero and get Alicia to speak. Awesome stuff.
I think the author did a good job in distracting us from the true villain by putting everyone up for suspicion which made the reading totally worth it. It was hard to put the book down and in 24 hours I was done reading.
The plot twist was quite unexpected and left my mouth open because honestly maybe I wasn’t paying attention and was enjoying the ride but I did not see it coming. Moreover, to be very honest I found myself “effectively” rolling my eyes when Alicia started with her last journal entry. I remember thinking “you have got to be fxxking kidding me”. It felt like those unrealistic scenes in movies where someone has been shot like 10 times but still finds the energy to buy a bus ticket, get on a bus for a hour plus ride, locate their cousins apartment building, rings the buzzer, waits for an extra couple minutes before being let in, climbs the stairs at this point staggering, enters the apartment and finally collapses saying “help me”. Yeah that reads like BS right. Exactly how I felt.
Characters
I liked the protagonist because he just exuded some form of professionalism that I liked. I don’t know anything about being a psychotherapist so whether he did a good job at that, I cannot be bothered. I just liked him. Every other character just had a way of annoying me in some form of magnitude I cannot particularly quantify.
Verdict
Overall, I did like the book I just did not like the plot twist or rather when everything started to come together. My feelings throughout this book can be described as very high in the beginning, maintained in the middle and sloped downward at the end.
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