Rock Paper Scissors

 

Title: Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Dates Read: 9.16.21-9.19.21

Review:

This book is the second Alice Feeney book I have read, and I have to say that I greatly enjoy her writing style. While Rock Paper Scissors features unreliable narrators, the arrangement of pieces within the book is also unreliable. I loved how meta the story was about writing, and the twist was something I was not expecting. My favorite way to read this book was early in the morning or late at night, along with a snowy ASMR YouTube video in the background. Thinking back, I should have lit some candles too, but c'est la vie.

For this photo, I gathered pieces that I thought were essential to the storyline. In doing so, I realized how meta the book is, with the title being both the title of a screenplay and important non-human characters. The sapphire ring represents rock, while the screenplays and manuscripts represent paper. The most obvious symbol is the scissors, but they serve a new purpose in this story: bringing something together instead of cutting it apart. Well, only after shredding something else apart.

Have you read Rock Paper Scissors?