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Average rating3.8
Really great twist - made me want to go back and reread to look for the clues. Probably her best so far that I've read.
alright, i haven't read a mystery thriller this good in literal years. the causal drop of the biggest twist of the whole book???????? 10000 stars. no need for any other words on this one.
I read this book based on a BookTok recommendation. It was entirely unexpected and enjoyable. I need to read more of Alice Feeney's books.
2.5 stars rounded down to 2.
While I was impressed by some of the twists, the writing style utterly killed this for me. The constant overuse of heavy-handed, clunky metaphors and similes grated on me throughout the entire book. They were so cliched that it became easy to guess where the author was going with the metaphor right as she started one. The amount of sentences that started with, “People are like (insert object here)” was truly baffling.
The characters were thoroughly unlikeable. I wasn't able to root for any of them, and I feel indifferent about the ending. Sam's chapter was a nice touch though, and I felt things were tied up fairly well. Still, this book was not for me.
I don't read thrillers very often, because I am already afraid of almost everything and have an overactive imagination. But I liked Rock Paper and Scissors. It was a page-turner for sure. And I liked the finale, which was so different for everyone involved.
5 stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Wow!! This is my first Alice Feeney book and it was soooo good. Unfortunately, when I started it, I was in a reading slump. So I put it down a couple of months but I heard that an adaptation of it was coming out on Netflix so I wanted to finish it and it certainly did not disappoint!!
I loved the writing, the atmosphere, the wittiness of it was perfect. The TWIST I didn't see coming in the SLIGHTEST!!
Not surprised to hear that this is being made into a Netflix show because it reads exactly like one. I guess all the red herrings, cliffhangers, twists and turns are supposed to be clever but they're just exhausting.
this book was so much fun and the end had me literally reeling. jaw on the floor. the twists just kept smacking me in the face and i'm a masochist so i was living for it
I don't fully know how I feel about this book yet. I definitely enjoyed the characters, the story, the setting. The ending however has left me with some questions, or rather some loose ends I think. But overall, I enjoyed it. I read it quickly and I definitely wanted to know what was going on and what was happening to Mr. and Mrs. Wright.
Wow!!! This book was something. I loved it, I couldn't put it down. It was really good and I definitely did not expect THAT to happen
The most interesting aspect of this story was the setting.
The writing wasn't the best, the plot wasn't cohesive, and until 70% the pacing is super slow. It wasn't very thrilling.
The twists were interesting, specifically one of them, but the plot holes stuck with me. There were a lot of far-fetched and convenient details.
This one wasn't for me.
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Enorm entertainend tijdens het luisteren, maar het einde haalt het naar beneden voor mij.
De hoofdtwist had ik al van in het begin door, omdat ik zoiets ondertussen al een paar keer heb gelezen en ik dus direct op mijn qui-vive was. Voor de rest zaten er zo veel rode haringen in, dat het leidde tot – naar mijn gevoel – onjuistheden.
I think what stood out for me with this book was the writing style. It flowed very naturally. Loved the insertion of journal entries. Helped develop the characters a lot more. I will say as I got closer to the halfway point I did have an inkling of what the twist might be. I think if the author had added a few more red herrings without making it too convoluted, it may have had a more ‘woah' impact on me. I wish the ending was a tad bit different as well. A few reveals and developments may have felt unnecessary. But all things aside a good thriller.
4.5 star round upAdam and Amelia are a married couple who won a weekend getaway to a converted chapel at Blackwater Loch in Scotland. They use this getaway to try and save their rocky marriage, but they both have ideas of their own of how this weekend is going to end.This is the first book I read by [a:Alice Feeney 15904689 Alice Feeney https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1484753445p2/15904689.jpg] and it was so good! After reading this I wanted to go and read every book she has ever written coz this one was just out of this world.The story was told from multiple povs so it was very easy to get the plot.The writing in d book?-Amazing, easy to read, very short chapters(this is another reason the book got a high rating, it was so easy to get through it coz of the short chapters).The characters?Insane,f**d upThe plot? Phenomenal, I am someone who always tries to guess the twists in books(a bad habit of mine) but I did not see the twists coming in this AT ALL.The setting in this book was also perfect, snowstorms, a converted chapel with its own graveyard, and a creepy intruder. What more can you ask?When the first twist came my mouth made a perfect O and it stayed like that for a good 5 mins lol(my brother saw me and he was like “You look like u have seen a ghost”)And there wasn't just one twist there were multiple twists towards the end of the book.After I was done I went back and reread a few parts and everything made perfect sense. I will stop here coz I feel like if I give away too much about the book I will end up spoiling it(I think I have already said too much) but pick this up if you love a good thriller with a creepy setting, a snowstorm, and a creepy intruder.
Take out the last chapter and the twist of who was in the car/driving the car, and this would've been 4 stars. It's like the author wasn't sure how to end it, so she threw all the ideas in last minute. Otherwise, it was a decent domestic thriller that I finished in one evening.
Very unexpected and clever, and I did not guess a major twist at all until two sentences before it was revealed.
A great thriller lots of plot two wars and I didn't know everything that was happening until the last page and I loved that! The second half of the book had me HOOKED and I didn't want to put it down but the first half was kinda slow and hard for me to get into.
i wanted to enjoy this book way more than i did & i'm very sad & feel guilty about it :/
Omg wat een verhaal!! Dit was echt één en al spanning. Ik vond het soms eerder horror dan thriller, maar ik vond het erg goed.
Er waren zo veel plottwists, echt niet normaal! Ik zag ze ook allemaal niet aankomen, daarom vond ik dit een heel goed boek.
Ik vond de verschillende POV'S erg leuk en ook heel erg fijn dat de hoofdstukken gemiddeld 3/4 pagina's hadden. Alleen het laatste hoofdstuk vond ik niet zo veel meerwaarde hebben.
Echt een heel goed boek als je van thrillers houdt!!
a Tale of Twists that Feel Forced
I've just completed Alice Feeney's latest book, “Good Bad Girl,” and let me tell you, it's the kind of read that keeps you up all night! On the other hand, “Rock Paper Scissors” was enjoyable, though it didn't captivate me as much as I had hoped, especially after the high of the previous read. While I appreciated the abundance of twists and turns, I didn't find myself falling head over heels for it. The narrative seemed somewhat lacking in depth, and some of the twists felt forced.
I'm the type of reader who's glued to a book when it truly grabs me, and unfortunately, this one didn't have that effect. I found it hard to ignore the moments when the plot didn't quite add up. For instance, Adam's prosopagnosia (face blindness) was intriguing, but his inability to recognize a familiar signature felt a bit off. After establishing his familiarity with the church by depicting him navigating the creaky steps and unlocking doors, the story didn't explore this further, leaving a loose end.
There were other instances that strained believability and left me puzzled, without much resolution. The ending, while somewhat redeemed by the ghostly elements for Robin, left me questioning its connection to the narrative. The trinket-filled box on the grave referenced the title “rock paper scissors,” but its presence lacked clear significance. Admittedly, I might have missed the connection.
In my assessment, this book had potential, but the author's fixation on twists seemed to lead her astray from a cohesive direction. All things considered; I'd rate it three stars.