This book was creepy, chilling and I actually had goosebumps in the end!

In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, records his time working at a dreary asylum in New England. Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient.

This patient, Joe, who is now a forty year old, has been in the asylum since he was 6 years old. He has no known diagnosis and is determined to be incurable. Every person who has attempted to treat him has been driven to madness or suicide.

The plot was so unique and it was a quick read for me because I was so engrossed in it. But I kept thinking about it long after I finished reading, processing what I had just read.

I really wanted Parker to succeed and prove all the others wrong. I was curious to know about what actually was wrong with Joe and secretly hoped that he was alright and it was just a misdiagnosis.

The only disappointment for me was that after such an intriguing plot, I had hoped for a better ending.

That being said, I would definitely recommend this book to all thriller lovers!

Thank You to NetGalley and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for this ARC!!

This I the stort of Parker, a white Male with an over inflated ego who decides on his first day at a mental.hospital, that he will be "curing" a patient who was committed when he was 6. This patient called "Joe" has no diagnosis or actual symptoms but whoever treats him or spends time with him is driven mad.

I did not enjoy this read. Not only was Parker's character a megalomaniac, but all the characters we come into contact with alongside parker are two dimensional "helpers". The Patient was a poorly written, poorly constructed, gimmicky little novel and I struggled to find any reason to complete it. I did complete it, and for my efforts I was rewarded one of the worst endings I have ever read in a throller-genre novel.

Usually with a book as bad as The Patient I do not completely black list the author, but I am going to make an exception. I will not be reading anything else by Jasper Dewitt.. The Patient was enough for a lifetime for me.

“I write this because, as of now, I am not sure if I am privy to a terrible secret or if I myself am insane...”

How do I say this nicely? This book was....not good. Multiplied by 1000.

In a series of online blog posts, a psychiatrist named Parker tells the tale of a mystifying psych patient named Joe. According to Parker, many staff members associated with Joe have committed suicide or gone insane. As readers, we are encouraged to try to guess the mysterious mental illness diagnosis plaguing Joe while reading Parker’s internet entries.

First of all, Parker is one of the most obnoxious, smug narrators I’ve ever encountered in a book. He is literally fresh out of medical school and believes he is smarter than those with years and years of experience. Yeah, not the case, buddy. In fact, every doctor in this book is unprofessional and laughably dramatic. There was not a single likable character.

Readers are incorrectly led to believe that this is a story of legitimate mental illness, so please do not be fooled: it is NOT about mental illness, but rather supernatural impossibilities. We meet the mysterious patient, Joe, rather abruptly, and the story ends in a similar fashion. I really do not understand the point of this story, and I’m sorry to say that I’m a little upset that I spent my time reading this.

This one was fun - creepy and engaging and a great escape read... The writing is easy to follow and fall into, the characters are set up well for the type of story, and it was a fun, fast read.

So I didn’t like this book at all. It intrigued me in the beginning but then the story took a really weird turn. I don’t enjoy reading about supernatural things or whatever this was. I thought this was going to be like The Silent Patient. I need to really read the synopsis of books more.

Summary:

Parker is a psychiatrist who has just begun working at an asylum. He quickly becomes curious about a mysterious patient there, Joe, who has been there for decades since he was a small child. Joe's file has clearly been tampered with, as there is a lot of information missing, but from what Parker can gather, Joe shows antisocial and sociopathic traits, seeming to drive anyone who works with him longterm insane.
Parker is determined to prove that he can be the doctor to cure this patient who has long ago been deemed incurable. But Parker cannot even begin to imagine what he is getting himself into when he takes Joe on as his patient.

Review:

*shudders* Creepy, chilling, haunting, enthralling, un-put-down-able. I finished this book in about twelve hours (partly because it is honestly a quick read, mostly because I just couldn't stop reading!) This is overall a very well-told and unique horror tale. There are a few reasons I felt I couldn't rate it higher:
1) As a mental health professional, I can say that the asylum aspects of this book and the way the doctors were treating this patient were pretty unrealistic. I would have been more sucked in if there were more of a sense of realism.
2) The ending felt VERY rushed and unsatisfying.
Overall, this is a great scary story. I recommend this book for fans of Riley Sager, Stephen King, and Shirley Jackson.

The Patient immediately gave me goosebumps as I began reading it in bed. I had to put it down and wait for the morning to come before picking it up again. Totally creeped me out but I love it when that happens! I enjoy being scared and the whole skin crawling and hair raising on your neck experiences you feel when you begin to get scared.

Not a very long book just around 200 or so pages but it packs a great deal into those pages and so many moments it had me guessing what was really going on here. I can feel the Stephen King vibe here and am yearning for more from this author!

This is a different type of thriller than I'm used to. More of a mystery with a hint of horror at the end.

The story is given to us via blog posts written years after the horrifying events happen. They are told by a young, brilliant psychiatrist names Parker who had just started a job at a rundown, dreary asylum. He explains his ideals as genuinely wanting to help people. His mother was a paranoid schizophrenic who ended up committing suicide when he was a young boy.

There is a patient at his asylum who no one interacts with. They call him Joe. Joe has been in the asylum since he was 6 years old and is what they call incurable. Doctors, nurses and other patients tend to kill themselves after being around Joe. He is the ultimate puzzle and Parker sets his mind to solving Joe's case.

Joe is not what Parker expected. Joe is much, much worse.

Parker is a young psychiatrist who gets a job at the state mental hospital. He’s intrigued by the infamous patient whose name is Joe. According to Parker’s coworkers.. Joe is dangerous and whoever is assigned to treat him has either killed themselves or been driven mad. Parker is determined to find out what’s ailing Joe even if it costs his own sanity.

This was a short, fast paced book that kept me on my toes. The way the story is told through Parker’s blog post was really intriguing and kept me interested from start to finish. I will say that Joe’s “diagnosis” seemed a little weird and far-fetched.. maybe my feelings on that are because I was hoping it would go one way and it took a turn I didn’t expect. I just didn’t feel totally satisfied by it. I still enjoyed reading this though and I definitely experienced some chills while reading the last chapter.

#The patient. #NetGalley
DNF 35%
I hate to push myself to read a book because for me reading is for fun, for spending my spare time in something good.
This book is highly recommended to me from my friends in Goodreads so i decided to request it. I received it one day before it released and i don't know why?

I enjoyed the plot set up in the first half, but expected a major payoff and was very disappointed. I was hoping for a psychological twist and ended up with a reveal that was too much of a stretch for the tone of the first half.

As a psych professional, this plot is exactly what I'm looking for. With all the main characters being psych professionals I would have liked more character development in their skillsets.

I am being cautious to not give away the ending. More of a horror than a thriller. Not bad, but not for me.

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC of The Patient by Jasper Dewitt. This story follows main character, Parker, who is a psychiatrist. As he begins his job at an asylum, he quickly learns of its’ most infamous patient—a forty year old man who has been there since the age of six. Amazed by this Parker takes to the internet to help figure out what is going on with this patient— with no known diagnosis. When I first saw a mention of this book being in the vein of Stephen King and also The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, I was hooked. This story did not disappoint and I highly recommend it if you are a fan of either King or Michaelides.

WOW, I started this book and could NOT put it down! It was so creepy and I couldn't wait to find out what was going to happen. The format was a little different than expected, in that it was in blog post form which I didn't LOVE, but DeWitt made it work well for this story. I had hoped for a bit of a different ending, but I didn't guess it, so that was good! Overall, The Patient was a solid read if you love creepy/horror - however, be aware that there are many trigger warnings!

What would you do if the monster under the bed or in your closet was real? "The Patient" answers that very question when a young, brand new psychiatrist begins to treat the most dangerous and mysterious patient at a New England mental asylum.

"The Patient" definitely has some slight King and Lovecraft vibes and is a quick, creepy read. Not a bad effort for a first novel. I hope the author sticks with the horror genre and has more to come.

A young ambitious psychiatrist hired at an asylum has becomes obsessed with one mysterious patient that is kept in isolation with a limited number of staff allowed to have any interaction with him. He works his way in getting his superiors to allow him to work with said patient. The results were not what he was expecting. I enjoyed some of the creepy vibes but it fell flat on suspense and wished for a better ending.
Thanks to NetGalley, Publisher and Author for the eARC.

Jasper DeWitt's "The Patient," is set in a state psychiatric hospital. The protagonist, Parker, is an honor student and Yale graduate who had a personal reason for choosing psychiatry as his specialty. He once saw his mother, who struggled with paranoid schizophrenia, wallowing in her own filth in a horrifically mismanaged mental hospital. Parker, who has an "overactive sense of altruism," decides to apply for a position in the Connecticut State Asylum—CSA—a place that "seemed designed to magnify despair." He is determined to "never treat any patients as disposable, no matter how hopeless or unlovable they seemed."

The novel centers on Joseph, a man who has been locked up in CSA since he was six. As a youngster, Joe was tormented by night terrors. He claimed that a fearsome monster would come out of the wall at night to terrorize him. After failing to rid their son of his delusions, Joe's parents sent him to CSA, where he has remained for decades. Parker wants to work with Joe, in spite of the fact that a number of the patient's former doctors had breakdowns, quit medicine, or in the most extreme cases, committed suicide. It seems that Joe has the power to induce rage, fear, and self-loathing in those who get too close to him.

This psychological thriller hooks us from the get-go. Parker studies Joe's old records and finally, with his supervisors' reluctant permission, begins one-on-one sessions with this troubled man. Joe appears to be relatively rational, although his profane remarks reveal a deep-seated anger at his parents and caregivers. DeWitt's descriptive writing is creepy, menacing, and suspenseful, and we dread finding out the the dark secret that is the key to solving this chilling mystery. The secondary characters, alas, are thinly drawn, including the asylum's medical director, Parker's supervisor, and Parker's fiancée, Jocelyn. This is a brief, intense, and weird tale that draws us in, but the bizarre payoff is not as spine-tingling as it might have been.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Jasper DeWitt for the opportunity to read this debut novel sure to cause a few nightmares - 4 creepy stars!

Parker was a mewly-minted rising star psychiatrist when he was assigned to his first position at a state-run mental institution in New England. The story is told in a series of online posts explaining how he came into contact with the institute's most dangerous patient - sent to the hospital at the age of 6, Joe has been given no official diagnosis. Joe is now 40, and the cause of many deaths and unexplained psychological issues to everyone who comes in contact with him. Parker is convinced that he can diagnose and hopefully cure Joe - but will it cost him his sanity as well as everyone he holds dear?

This is a creepy horror story - the monster under the bed variety that will definitely keep you awake and terrified! I loved the way the story was spooled out in a series of posts, giving some narration and context as the story spooled out. Definitely for Stephen King fans, this book is also being made into a movie by Ryan Reynolds. Will be anxiously (with a little fear!) awaiting more from this talented writer.

The Patient is a very quick read. I went into this book thinking it was a psychological thriller, but it is not. This is a horror story. Once I started this book, I couldn't put this book down and I finished it one day. I loved the set up of the novel. I am always intrigued by books written in this format. I would recommend this book to horror lovers and thriller lovers. I wasn't scared while reading the story but it was still very good.

The Patient is the perfect summer read! Think Stephen King! I thoroughly enjoyed Joseph DeWitt’s debut novel. At first, I had a little trouble getting used to Parker, a new psychiatrist, posting on an online forum; however, I got used to this format quickly. It added to the excitement of reading this book.

Parker takes his first job at the Connecticut State Asylum that is housed in a gothic looking building in decay. He is out to make a name for himself! Parker takes on a patient named Joe who came to the asylum when he was six with night terrors. It is now thirty years later and Joe is still there, The mother in me was very sympathetic to Joe at first. How could a six-year-old be in such horrible shape to be there years later? You need to know that something has happened to all of the medical people who tried to help him. This is a quick read and I will be thinking about it for awhile.

My thanks to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The Patient is a thriller about a new psychiatrist named Parker and how he decides to try to cure an incurable patient in a mental asylum. Through a series of online posts, Parker tells the story of this very dangerous patient and of what transpires during their consultations. This book had me hooked from the very beginning, and I was not prepared for where it led me. I would recommend this book to fans of the spooky and strange. Thanks to NetGalley for the free digital review copy. All opinions are my own.