![]() ![]() ![]() It turns out that it had been Zoe and Sebastian all along. Lack of a Villain Ok, so there is a villain in the novel. Mariana, Fred, Edward Fosca, Henry, & Sebastian all shared these attributes, and any character development was stunted by these cookie cutter origins. Leaning on these repetitive attributes feels more deceitful towards the reader. Childhoods on a farm and absent parents abound. In The Maidens though, the author seems to have settled on a small set of character attributes that are insinuated to be attributes of the killer. In The Silent Patient, we were introduced to an array of characters who could be suspects all within their own rights and it felt a little more like we were able to do the detective work along with the characters. This was something that existed in The Silent Patient as well, but I felt that it had been done much more skillfully. Red Herrings The book was full of red herrings, whose entire purpose was just to give the reader many options for who the villain was. (Spoilers ahead for those that haven’t read it.) ![]() ![]() These are all the things that annoyed me, but I would probably still recommend this book because it was still an exciting and easy read. I found it a fun, intriguing book, but by the end, there were a couple things that bothered me about the novel, and prevented it from being better than it was. I quite enjoyed it as a psychological thriller and was excited to read his next novel, The Maidens. Book Review: The Maidens by Alex MichaelidesĪbout a year ago, I read Michaelide’s debut novel, The Silent Patient. ![]()
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