I love reading Kiyoharu Matsumoto's Black Leather Manual and Keigo Higashino's White Night Walk. The two books have one thing in common – both are excellent mystery novels.
As a reader, as soon as the title page is opened, speculative fiction is in love, can't stop, doesn't make the story clear, can't even sleep well, and sometimes even dreams search for the intriguing ending.
Reading The Silent Patient, I was so crazy too. Almost the New Year's Meeting, busy buying New Year goods during the day, holding this "Silent Patient" at night to immerse yourself in it. On the night of the twenty-eighth day of the 28th month, I saw that at three o'clock in the morning, I was sometimes heavy in my heart and sometimes my brows were stretched, and finally everything suddenly realized, and I couldn't help but clap the case!
The Silent Patient is the work of The English writer Alex McLeetz. It is said that he is a supernova in the suspense world, and once "The Silent Patient" was published, it detonated the suspense reasoning circles in Europe and the United States, and was on the Best Seller List of the New York Times, dominating the best-seller list for 392 days!
What's so exciting about "The Silent Patient"? In my opinion, there are at least two points.
First, the storyline is compelling.
The novel begins with the heroine Alicia Berensen killing her husband: "Alicia Berensen was thirty-three years old when she killed her husband. Such a seemingly concise beginning firmly grasped the reader's attention, and a short sentence set off the reader's inner waves: Heaven! A thirty-three-year-old woman actually killed her husband, what a bloody vendetta it must be! Strangely, Alicia Berensen killed her dearest, but never spoke up and became a silent patient.
This is already the case at the beginning of the novel, not to mention the plot that follows. Why did Alicia Berensen kill her dear husband Gabriel? Alicia Berensen was a well-known painter, gabriel was a fashion photographer, and their lives were full of fun and happiness. The complex story of these two, in the male protagonist's narrative of stripping away the cocoon, makes people sometimes strange, sometimes indignant, sometimes hating not being able to hold a steel knife in hand, pulling away the heavy fog in front of them, and seeing it clearly and clearly.
Arguably, the bizarre storyline captivated every reader who opened the book—and in order not to spoil, I took a deep breath and tried my best to hold back.
The second striking thing is the unique way of narration.
The Silent Patient is narrated in the first person from beginning to end. For a moment it was the male protagonist, the man who had deep sympathy for Alicia Berensen from the beginning, a forensic psychotherapist. A moment later, there was another "me"—Alicia Berensen, her diary. The different narratives of the two "I" slowly advance the development of the storyline, leading the reader into the depth, letting them enter the fog, and then using their eyes to brush away the clouds.
Isn't this narrative unusual? Anyway, when I read the different narratives of the two protagonists, I felt that one moment I stepped into the world of this person, and the next moment I entered the heart of that person, which was very wonderful.
Reading the book "The Silent Patient", in addition to the above two profound feelings, I personally feel that Alex McLeetz's conception is extremely clever. As a suspense novel, it is a three-dimensional story, and the moment the truth is revealed, it will make people stunned: Ah, it is so? Then, tempted to start all over again, I found that everything was traceable, but it was very well hidden by Alex McLeetz.
Reading a good suspense novel, don't you want this feeling?