Rock Paper Scissors
A Novel
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4.1 • 2.3K Ratings
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Publisher Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Feeney lives up to her reputation as the “queen of the twist”…This page-turner will keep you guessing.” —Real Simple
Think you know the person you married? Think again…
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 latest exciting domestic thriller from the queen of the killer twist, New York Times bestselling author Alice Feeney.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A couple becomes tangled in a web of secrets, lies, and bad choices in this tense domestic thriller. Adam and Amelia’s relationship is on the verge of collapse. She works in a stressful job at an animal shelter, and he’s a screenwriter who suffers from a frustrating disorder that makes it impossible for him to remember or recognize faces. They hope to reconnect during a weekend away in Scotland, but not long after arriving at their unexpectedly creepy and old accommodations, the pair begin to realize how little they truly know about one another. Alice Feeney’s plotting kept us guessing from beginning to end. As she jumps from one character to another and shifts from past to present, there’s an onslaught of shocking revelations we won’t spill here. Start reading and get ready for a marriage story like none you’ve ever heard.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Londoners Amelia and Adam Wright, the couple at the center of this craftily plotted if flawed domestic thriller from bestseller Feeney (His & Hers), are spending the weekend at spooky Blackwater Chapel in the Scottish Highlands on what is meant to be a last-ditch effort to save their 10-year marriage. Each harbors darker agendas for the weekend, as does the mysterious, hermit-like neighbor, Robin, who frightens Amelia when Amelia catches the woman peering at her through a chapel window. The plot takes some perilous turns in ways both predictable—a power outage, dangerously loose stones in the wall of the chapel's belfry—and not, as alternating narrations from the trio open a Pandora's box packed with secrets, lies, and betrayals. Feeney's signature misdirection sets up gasp-worthy twists down the stretch even if they, like the characters, come off as arbitrary and artificial. In contrast to His & Hers, some may walk away from this one feeling more snookered than satisfied.
Customer Reviews
Twists you don’t see coming
Slow burn but the ending was insane! The twist was 🤯. So many twists it literally blew my mind. Makes me wanna reread!
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Very good book
5 ⭐️
Alice Feeney's Rock Paper Scissors is a brilliant, disorienting descent into a marriage poisoned by secrets, earning a rare and enthusiastic 5-star rating. This novel sets a tone of immediate, inescapable dread, transforming a secluded Scottish getaway into a psychological battleground.
The genius of this thriller lies in the pervasive atmosphere of mutual suspicion. Adam and Amelia Wright are clearly keeping critical information from each other, making the reader feel like a spy trying to decipher two concurrent, highly-secretive plots. The early confusion—who is plotting what?—is entirely intentional and deeply satisfying.
While the journey is thrilling, the climax is where the book truly shines. Feeney expertly layers revelations, leading to a jaw-dropping twist that doesn't just resolve one mystery but fundamentally changes how you view every scene that preceded it. The immediate impulse upon discovery is exactly what every great thriller aims for: the burning desire to re-read the entire book to piece together the newly revealed puzzle.
It is exceedingly difficult for a thriller to achieve a 5-star rating, but Rock Paper Scissors makes it look easy. This is more than a recommendation; it's a command: if you love suspense that rewards re-reading, pick up Rock Paper Scissors—ignore the skeptics, this book is fantastic.