Just a note, that I did this one as an audiobook. Alice Feeney does so much with change of voice and I am still on the fence as to how the audiobook enhances or detracts from that. I wonder if it helps me figure things out or hinders me from figuring things out. I am not sure.

Rock Paper Scissors shows us a marriage that is on the rocks with, of course, some great Alice Feeney twists to the story. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have won a weekend trip in Scotland. They use the trip as a last ditch effort to save their marriage. Unfortunately, the trip isn’t quite what it seems to be. Both of the characters are avid liars and there is a mysterious woman in a cabin nearby.

Trying not to give away anything, I may not have much to write. This whole book is smoke and mirrors. It is really twisty and every chapter brings a new revelation to the story. None of the characters are particularly likeable, even when speaking in their own voice. This seems to be a new popular approach to writing characters. I understand seeing people raw and “warts and all”, but we desperately need heroes. Not anti-heroes, not kinda heroes, but we need real honest to God heroes.

The book unfolds a past for each character that shows us some of the darkest parts of them. As an added wrinkle, Adam Wright has a disorder that does not allow him to recognize faces. This adds to some of the twists in a rather interesting way. One of the things that the book does well is to tie everything up with a neat bow at the end. You don’t wonder what happened at the end, the author actually tells you about how ever after went.

*Look out List*

• Alcohol use
• Language
• Extramarital affairs, teenage sex scene, prostitution
• Murder