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Rock Paper Scissors
by Alice Feeney
My first thriller read of the year gets 5 glowing stars, I am glad that I patiently waited for my library hold to come for 2 months because the audiobook was phenomenal! I enjoy psychological thrillers but given the book had domestic thriller elements I had my reservations but the book completely knocked it out of the park for me. This is my first book by the author and most definitely won't be the last, I get the hype y'all
A Married couple trying to repair their struggling relationship decides to go on a weekend getaway in a desolated Scottish Valley, but their accommodation is not what they expected it to be. A weekend stay in a converted church during peak winter! sounds serene right? Well it is anything but serene when you don't see a living soul for miles and then you realize your temporary wine cellar is a crypt. Strange things start to happen and we realize both he and she have an agenda of their own, the narration then takes back to the time to their past wedding anniversary days where the wife writes a letter to the husband about the year they had. We witness how their relationship is built and also how it starts to crumble through these letters, which I thought was brilliantly executed by the author because of how meticulously she had included details along with tell tale bread crumbs.
The book aced the "unreliable narrator" theme, It is hard to share anything else about the plot without the danger of giving away spoilers, however I will say I was able to see *some* twists coming while the others still blew me away. I don't know if the ending of the book will be everyone's cup of tea but it was totally mine, I also thought the male lead having Prosopagnosia disorder was a nice touch to the plot. The story gave me creepy heebie-jeebies at times, it is a perfect thriller to curl up to during the winter months!
If you are into audiobooks, I highly recommend taking that route for this book. The narrators were brilliant and the tension was palpable from the start to the end!