Intro:

Alice Feeney launches readers into a twisty story of marriage shambles and deception with her 4th thriller novel. With each turn of the page, you think you have an understanding of what is ahead of you, but you don't. Rock Paper Scissors is a dark domestic thriller that invites you to keep reading one more chapter.

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Amazon Book Description:

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.

Rock Paper Scissors is the next exciting domestic thriller from the queen of the killer twist, New York Timesbestselling author Alice Feeney.

Review:

Rock Paper Scissors is my second 5 star read of the year. This easily became another one of my top 5 favorite thrillers, just like None of This is True by Lisa Jewell that I read earlier this year. This has already been a good year for me with thriller novels, to say the least.

This book was like coming up for air after drowning in thrill-empty books. It has been a while since I have read a book so gripping that I chose to read it with every spare minute I had. I stayed up so late reading it, and spent hours of the day not even realizing how long I hadn't moved from that spot on the couch. Books like this one are why I read anything to begin with.

I have to admit, I thought I was going to guess the twists as they came along. I was wrong, and was pleasantly surprised that I was. I know Alice Feeney smiled to herself every time it seemed obvious what was going to happen next, only to catapult the reader in a different direction. This is one of those books that when you turn the last page and see the back of the cover are the last words to read, you stare in awe at the story you just finished.

If secrets could kill, every character in this book would be dead. The secrets themselves are decapitating, and every character has got one. This is one of the few books I have read where none of the characters seem like-able. Just when you think you can pick a side, Feeney shows you that you really can't. No words on the page are trustworthy, and no character can trust another. It is such a whirlwind of drama, hate, and fear that you just have to keep reading to figure it out.

Feeney set this book up for there to be so many different directions for the plot to go, but it will not land where you think it would. To build suspense, she uses plenty of little details that don't seem significant until someone gets caught in a lie, and a few loose ends are left untied until the very end. So many pages in this book are utterly shocking, and I loved every single one.

Alice Feeney has become one of the authors that now I will read any book that she writes in admiration. Not all thriller writers are the same, and some deserve a medal for sharing such a twisted sense of entertainment. Alice Feeney is one of them. Bravo.

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