Rock Paper Scissors is a tense, chilling thriller told both over the course of one unsettling weekend, and also through ten years of anniversary letters interspersed throughout the chapters. Even reading in the heat of summer, you can feel the cold seeping in, along with a steadily growing dread, as you come to realize the Wrights are not alone. The location only increases the suspense: a rumored-to-be haunted, converted chapel in the middle of nowhere, isolated and cut off by an incoming snowstorm. Told in multiple points of view, each narrator has a different plan for the weekend, and neither fully trusts the other. When Amelia wins a weekend getaway to the Scottish Highlands, what begins as a potential romantic weekend to save their marriage instead kicks off an eerie, unsettling sequence of events. Adam, a successful screenwriter, lives with face blindness and cannot recognize those around him. This is the story of Adam and Amelia Wright, a married couple on the brink. This is an absolutely propulsive read, brimming with atmosphere and full of surprises. And wow does Rock Paper Scissors take all of these elements to a whole new level. Suspense is always my go-to genre-I love the fast-pace, the puzzle-solving aspect, the mysteries hidden inside the story, and also the mysteries hidden inside other people.
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