Thankyou to NetGalley, the publishers and the author, Jasper DeWitt, for the opportunity to read an advanced readers copy of The Patient in exchange for an honest and unbiased opinion.
What a great storyline. I was hooked from the start.
The narrative and the characters are well drawn and compelling. This book certainly delivers a rollercoaster storyline with no predictable ending.
Well worth a read.

The Patient is a creepy psychological thriller that has a quick pacing. A new psychiatrist, Parker, joins the staff at a derelict state run mental hospital and is obsessed with curing one of the patients who has been there since he was six years old. The narrative is told in the style of the psychiatrist’s blogged confession.

I was immediately pulled into the world of the hospital and curious about the long term patient as his case is revealed. The book has a cinematic quality about it through the descriptive writing and I can see it easily becoming a optioned for a movie with only minimal revisions. The characters all seemed a bit flat to me and I feel like their emotional states of mind could have been further explored to make the narrative more emotionally engaging for the reader. Rating: 3.5 stars rounded up.

Advanced readers copy provided by #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Thanks to Net Galley and the publisher for a copy of this book to review !

The Patient
by Jasper DeWitt

A unique page turner that had me hooked from page 1.

Written in the form of a blog by a young and over confident psychiatrist. 'The Patient' is about a doctor's struggle to cure an incurable patient.

The patient known as “Joe” entered the dreary New England mental asylum at the age of 6 and has remained for there for over 30 years. Throughout his incarceration Joe's mental illness remains without a diagnosis along with ever evolving dangerous symptoms. The hospital staff and other patients are terrified as mysterious suicides and death seem to follow anyone who gets close to Joe.

In his attempt to save his patient, Doctor Parker becomes aware of his own weaknesses and humility. After few wrong turns in the young doctor's original assessment of Joe, Parker is able to reveal the truth behind Joe's madness, even if the diagnosis goes against all basic psychiatric scientific knowledge.

THE PATIENT by Jasper DeWitt is a psychological horror novel told in a really unique way through online forum thread posts. It was fun how the main character and narrator of the story, Parker, would talk to the reader. I couldn’t put this book down and finished it in one day. I was surprised at many moments and I loved the ease of reading due to the writing style. I can’t wait to watch the film adaptation!

Parker is a young doctor at a psychiatric facility who becomes facinated with a patient named Joe who has an almost mythological reputation. Some even calls him a "monster". He is the patient that everyone warns Parker not to interact with, the one that no one else has come close to diagnosing. Most of the people who comes in contact with Joe winds up dead or worse.
But like a siren's call Joe becomes a mystery that Parker wants to solve. He thinks that he will be the one to find what's wrong with Joe. But some things are better left in the dark. Or buried inside the wall and forgotten. As Parker digs deeper into Joe's history he comes face to face with an evil that has the potential to destroy him. Thank you Netgalley and Publisher for this ARC.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for providing me with the digital ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

It took me a few seconds to read the plot of this novel and being totally captivated by it! I'm a big fan of books about mysterious patients and mental asylums, therefore I knew The Patient was the right choice for me.
I really enjoyed DeWitt's writing style and the idea of telling the story through a series of online posts. The entire story was really captivating and the way it was told did glue me to page. I read it in one sitting because I couldn't put the book down, I was too curious and I needed to know what was actually going on.
The reason why I'm not giving this book more stars is because, at a certain point, the plot took a path that I didn't quite expect and was something I didn't enjoy a lot. I came here to read about some things, but then it was all transformed in something else

Wow what a ride.
The Patient by Jasper DeWitt, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is a full length, stand-alone, that kept me in suspense from start til the end. I read the book, cover to cover in one sitting.
Meet Parker, a young psychiatrist on his first job. He makes a grave mistake that leads to a series of events that nobody could dream of.
I want to be honest, it took me some time to get into the story, but then I was intrigued til the end.
The Patient is a mystery/thriller, excellent written, thought out and told.
4,5 Stars.

This book is right up my alley. A bit of horror along with the psychological thriller. Kept me turning pages, although I did guess where the story was going. I enjoyed the characters, especially Joe and the writing was wonderful. Just descriptive enough to let one form their own visual of things and keeping interest flowing. Read it. You won’t be sorry.

Where do I even begin. This was a second banger. This book was amazing horrifying thrilling scary and nerve-wracking.. .. basically it was everything I could have asked for. I highly recommend this book... I don't want to give too much away but a doctor goes to a psychological Ward to treat a patient who is " incurble " and any doctor who treats him, either commit suicide or goes crazy himself so Parker wants to crack this case went through 12. And it is an absolutely horrifying ride I read this book in two days.

Seriously, I couldn't put this one down. I was riveted through the entire book.

Having a medical background led me to read this - but my interest in the story kept me reading.

A bit scary at times. Especially when you are wondering if Joe is as he appears to be to Parker...

One of this year's best - RECOMMEND!

Many Thanks to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and NetGalley for a rollercoaster ride of a story.

This book started off great. It's written in a diary/blog style which I enjoyed. As it went on, I found it to be a disappointment and not what I expected at all. It took a turn for the worst and became a genre I wasn't expecting. I loved the idea but the execution was disappointing.

Thanks to NetGalley and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for an advanced digital copy of The Patient. I was expecting a psychological thriller but would consider this more of a supernatural horror story. There was some psychology involved, mainly an outdated Freudian interpretation by elderly Dr. A. Treatment for mental illnesses within the hospital involved medication and group therapy.

Parker, a young, academically brilliant psychiatrist begins his work in a mental asylum. He is overconfident, arrogant, and believes his ideas and methods will be more effective than those of the past and present medical staff. I wanted to know whether his conceit interfered with his outside social interactions with individuals he regarded to be less intelligent. He was not a particularly sympathetic protagonist.


There is a patient, Joe who is in his forty’s, He was admitted when he was only six-years-old. He is considered profoundly dangerous by the staff and is confined to solitary with minimal contact and is medicated. Those who tried to treat him by psychiatric means have either committed suicide or gone insane. No one has ever come up with a diagnosis. Parker naively believes he can learn the origin of his mental disorder and cure him through psychotherapy when everyone else has failed.

When Parker meets Joe, he finds his patient to be remarkably normal after years of confinement. Parker likes Joe and comes to believe that his very wealthy parents had him admitted when he was a very small unruly child. He suspects some of the psychiatrists who treated him falsified their written reports to keep him confined and to have his parents’ money rolling into the underfunded institution.
Guided by some unfortunate events in his past, Parker is determined to succeed with a cure for Joe. Eventually, he plans to help the man whom he considers to be a harmless victim of the system escape. This was a stupid idea coming from the arrogant Parker. He had never given any for-thought to how such a highly institutionalized man would survive in the outside world.

Later, Parker learns he has miscalculated and has been manipulated by both the staff and Joe. He decides to investigate further while his patient is still confined to solitary and frequently in restraints. He realizes most everything he believed was wrong. He is now confronted by elements of horror, terrible visions, and the supernatural. Will he survive and maintain his sanity?

Recommended for readers who enjoy the supernatural and over-the-top horror stories.

A horrifying, dark, bleak asylum: a young idealist psychiatrist who suffers from guilt trips because of his inability to cure his own mother, becomes a volunteer to treat a real dangerous patient who has been ruining/haunting and ending the lives of the people try to cure him.

Of course when a plot’s beginning resembles Silent Patient and story’s premise, world building gives you Stephen King, Peter Straub’s creepy, eerie, blood freezing stories, you go half blind and jump into to read this novella and devour it at one sit, biting your nails, pulling your hair, jumping up and down at your seat, feeling petrified with high tension. You want to stop reading because you get really scared but you cannot admit. Hanging on your big girl’s pants ( or adult diapers because there are really petrifying chapters) and resume your reading as brave as you can be.

The story is told by Parker’s entries to the internet message board describing his time working at the asylum and meeting with patient named Joe who hasn’t been diagnosed properly because any doctor or staff member, other patients connect with him end up committing suicide or suffering from mental breakdown. So Parker is getting a real risk but he couldn’t have saved his schizophrenic mother and his savior complex forces him to take more challenging and complex cases! But of course poor young man has no idea what he’s getting into!

Joe has been in the hospital since he was six. His parents have brought him because he insisted that a creature hid behind the walls harmed him with its clutches. Did he have a complex, thrilling imagination? Did someone abuse him? What was happening to that boy? Nobody found it including his dead cellmates.
Parker finally meets and interview with him. Joe insists there is nothing wrong with him and he is held at this place without his consent and nobody wants to believe him. Anybody tries to help end up death or leave the mental hospital forever!

Who is telling the truth? Did Parker put himself and other people’s lives in danger by being obsessed to treat this patient?

Keep on reading to find out. It was interesting, horrifying, fast pacing reading. Some little plot holes and unanswered questions irritated me a little bit but I still loved the promising, gripping, twisty progression, dark and intense ending of the story. I’m rounding up 3.5 stars to 4! I scared sh*tless and interestingly had a great time!

Special thanks to NetGalley and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for sharing this heart throbbing ARC with me in exchange my honest review. I’m looking forward to read more works of Jasper DeWitt.

Very engaging fast read novel with fascinating premise.Why has a patient been at a state mental hospital since age Six and why have the psychiatrists given up on treating him?Will the new young psychiatrist be able to treat the patient and solve the riddle?This is an absolute page turner.#netgalley#the Patient

A psychiatrist, Parker H. Is bored with his job at a psychiatric hospital, so to pass the time, he begins an online account of one of his patients. The patient, now a forty year old man, has been institutionalized since age six. All attempts at treatment have been disastrous, but Parker believes he alone can cure the patient so many others have failed to help. I was of two minds about this book, while a fascinating concept, it falls a bit short when it comes to delivery. A little creative editing might help

This is my experience with The Patient from the moment I heard of it to the moment I turned the last page.

March 9th - Hears of book through interwebs (Goodreads I'd imagine though can't be sure). Reads synopsis and it speaks directly to my dark black soul. Shelved "To Read".

April 22nd - 9:15am NetGalley has arc's available to request. I. Am. So. Excited. Sends request and waits patiently. 🤞

April 22nd - 11:48am ARC APPROVED! YAHOO!

April 22nd - appx. 1:30pm Starts reading The Patient.

April 22nd - 4:55pm work is closing and I'm at 93% - gahhhhh!!!! 😲

April 22nd - 5:22pm arrives home after driving a ridiculous speed to get there. Runs inside. Stands at kitchen door with coat on and immediately pulls out kindle. Meanwhile, husband is asking what I am doing to which he receives the hand ✋ 5 minutes, please!

April 22nd - 5:30pm turns last page with a satisfied sigh.

Wow! Jasper DeWitt has exceeded my expectations. I was hooked on every single word. I just had to know what was going on. Before I go around recommending this book to everyone please know that there is a strong supernatural theme that may not work for every reader. Another thing I want to mention is how polished the arc edition is. As a reviewer sometimes you receive arc's with lots of errors and whatnot but not so here. I truly hope that this book will kick start a long and successful career for this author. 4 stars!

Thank you to NetGalley and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for providing me with a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

If you're hoping for a repeat of Alex Michaelides' The Silent Patient, this isn't it.
It starts out promising enough: a young psychiatrist during the 1990s, working at a state hospital and coming across a very strange patient that apparently has the power to get into people's minds and manipulate them into doing terrible things to themselves. Promising enough, but it all falls apart towards the middle of the story, and it turns into a kind of dark humor tale which is not to much scary as it is absurd and non-sensical.

This was nothing like I thought it would be. It is definitely NOT The Silent Patient by way of Stephen King as some blurbs say. It is creepy and mind-bending, but I expected more psychological aspects and it was really just Parker, a bright, eager, new psychiatrist and his blog postings. It is more mild horror than psychological thriller.