I was looking forward to reading this book by the description I'm sorry to say this book wasnt for me,I dont like giving negative reviews but this is my honest review,this was a slow burner,and I couldnt get into the characters or storyline.Rina a psychiatrist her marriage falls apart,A patient commits suicide,and she recieved a list of names from an autistic patient including her ex husband, as on the list they end up dead...will she find the answers shes looking for?


I would like to thank netgalley, and victory editing netgalley co-op,and the author James Caine for a copy of his book to read,This book will be reviewed on goodreads and Amazon UK.

The Patient's List follows a psychiatrist named Rina, who's life is spinning out of control. After seeing a young woman commit suicide, Rina just isn't the same. When a new patient comes in whispering a list of names, Rina has to get to the bottom of it. Even if everyone around her believes she's falling apart. I really enjoyed the flawed main character, however the end was messy and the connections weren't all thrown together at the end. Thanks Netgalley for the advanced copy!

It must be really hard to write a novel, so it’s not easy for me to give a bad review but I didn’t like this book at all. The idea was brilliant, but the execution was lacking. The characters were all nasty, which would have worked had the heroine been likable or relatable. No one has consistent behaviors at all and go from: “you’re so brilliant” to “I knew you were useless” (I’m paraphrasing here). Rina is unreliable and flaky but we’re supposed to believe she’s a great psychiatrist. The resolution is completely predictable. The chapters are mostly about Rina but, out of nowhere, there are some about a detective who presumably belongs to the Keystone Cops. The dialogues are stilted and full of useless details that are supposed to pass for character development. Lastly, I was appalled at the view of mental illness. Thankfully, I don’t have personal experience with it, but I watch movies and I know how mental health professionals have psychiatrists. Rina “overcoming her guilt at being a psychiatrist who needed therapy” (this is a literal quote) makes it sound like there’s a stigma about it. I don’t mean to be too harsh, I just wanted to explain why I’m giving this novel only one star.
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