Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney: My Review
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney:
My Review
About the Book
Rock Paper Scissors
By Alice Feeney
Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife.
Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts--paper, cotton, pottery, tin--and each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now. They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after.
Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget.
My Review:
My Rating- 5 Stars
I love Alice Feeney, so I couldn’t wait to grab her new release and I was not disappointed. Her ability to write multiple POV without giving away the final twist for her books is absolutely flawless, and just as in Sometimes I lie and His and Hers, I didn’t see the ending to this novel coming. The setting was somewhat Gothic, and I loved how the author used the different wedding anniversaries to tell the story of Adam’s first wife. I’m also in love with how this book explores how people change, and how relationships break down over time. It was fascinating to watch the narrative progress from the year after the couple got married to the end of the novel, whereby they realise they’re still in love with one another.
I loved the dog, Bob, and enjoyed the way the author used the main character Adam’s inability to see facial features. This is a relatively unknown condition which I knew about via the TV series Hannibal and was great to see it used to propel the mystery forward in this novel. I read this book in near enough one sitting and didn’t manage to guess the ending which for me is a huge thing as I find many thrillers predictable. I also actually really enjoyed the revelations which came up in the epilogue, because it made the book seem even more sinister in retrospect. If you love thrillers, and twisty turny plots, check this one out!
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