I loved the book, I had my finals the next day but I chose to read this book. I read it at a stretch in 4-5 hours in 2 sittings. THis was such a nice book, a definite page turner.
This is what I think about criticism that Theo is too villany all of the sudden.
It was not sudden. These are my reasons to why Theo visits Alicia and why he didn’t end the relationship like a sane person.
* He never healed/grew his trauma. He just used Kathryn to feel happy, he tells this multiple times. He can’t be happy he just emulates happiness through her, that’s why he stopped therapy after they became an item.
* Theo and Alicia are equally damaged if not one is more damaged than other. They both chose a life partner to feel better about themselves. If you read about the way Alicia has sex with Gabriel and what her thought processes are during the act, you can feel how lonely/afraid of rejection.
* Both wanted someone who will make them forget about their past instead of confronting it. Infact, I would even aruge that,Theo had the same mental breakdown Alicia had when she knew that Gabirel was ready to let her die when Kathryn was cheating on him. It wasn’t sudden like Alice but it burnt on him slowly.
* He himself is broken and genuinely believes that his patients will cure him. He literally says this at the first, a good doctor doesn’t say that. That’s the start of his villain arc.
* He never had a protective figure, so he doesn’t know what protection looks like so he assumed the role of the protective guardian of Alicia no matter how fucked up it was.
Now there are 2 criticisms I can agree to
* Why divert the police’s attention towards attempt murder just to frame Christian? It would have been easily fixed if some other detective saw it.
* Other thing is how Alicia was able to write a huge journal entry after getting morphined. It would have also been easily fixed if the author thought about it
Another criticism is about parallel timelines. I don’t want to justify it but I feel it was executed perfectly. I loved it, but I get how readers don’t like to be deceived. So yeah, I would rate this a 9/10 book mainly because of the plotholes at the end.
I am open to your opinions but this is what I feel.
by Sirius_Hood