Play Book Tag discussion

Adam and Amelia are spending their anniversary weekend in the Scottish Highlands. The remote location is perfect for trying to work on their relationship, which has been going wrong for a long time.

Adam is a screenwriter who is a workaholic, and is particularly obsessed with his role as the screenwriter for TV adaptations of crime novels by his favorite author, Henry Winter. Adam lives with prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, which is a cognitive disorder in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including Amelia's is lost. I had never heard of this disease before and had to do a little googling to better understand it.

Amelia works at the Battersea dog shelter. On every anniversary the couple exchanges traditional gifts: something made of paper the first year, cotton the second year, leather the third year, etc. Unknown to Adam, his wife also writes him a letter every year.

There are minimal characters and we get to know them through the chapters they narrate. Nothing about these characters is to be trusted, and readers will enjoy the way in which Feeney establishes facts about her books’ protagonists, only to subvert expectations over and over again with shocking twists and revelations.

Feeny's style of writing is so engaging and you don't realize what a clever plot she's woven together. "Rock, Paper, Scissors" was a well plotted story, with complicated characters that kept me hooked.

This sounds really interesting. Thanks for the inspiring review