Silver Linings Playbook

A book I read last semester was Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick which is a romance, drama, and comedy novel. This book has exactly 304 pages. The story is about a man named Pat who has just been released from a mental health rehabilitation center. Pat, the protagonist, is the narrator of the story and doesn’t remember anything that happened before he entered this rehabilitation center. Once being released from what he calls the “bad place”, Pat is trying to improve as a person due to the love he has for his wife, Nikki, and to be able to save their marriage. As Pat is practicing controlling his aggressive impulses and doing extensive workouts, he is waiting for the day he will see his wife again. However, Pat meets this woman named Tiffany who has also had a mental health illness and is trying to handle her personality. Pat and Tiffany begin to have a close friendship which helps both to develop as people and makes an impact on each other’s lives. I enjoyed reading this book because as the protagonist is discovering things from his past, so is the reader. Little by little, I was better understanding the life of the protagonist who had forgotten most of his past. Also, I liked the way the author used the structure of a letter almost at the end of the story which was the way two of the characters were communicating with each other. The suspense of not knowing what the protagonist had done before he was sent to a mental health facility was what kept me to keep reading the novel. However, what I sort of dislike of the novel is that the pace of the story was going sort of slow until almost at the end where it started to speed up. The reader is also able to sort of correctly guess how the novel was going to end. Nevertheless.the book was very engaging and I would recommend it to readers who enjoy ready stories with a suspenseful being but with a happy ending.