One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware
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One Perfect Couple Book Cover One Perfect Couple
Ruth Ware
Thriller
Gallery/Scout Press
May 21, 2024
E Book, Audio, Hardback
400

Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None, this high-tension and ingenious thriller follows five couples trapped on a storm-swept island as a killer stalks among them—from Ruth Ware, the New York Times bestselling author who “is turning out to be as ingenious and indefatigable as the Queen of Crime” (The Washington Post). Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she’s pretty sure they won’t extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren’t going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she decides to try out with him. A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla find herself whisked off to a tropical paradise with Nico, boating through the Indian Ocean towards Ever After Island, where the two of them will compete against four other couples—Bayer and Angel, Dan and Santana, Joel and Romi, and Conor and Zana—in order to win a cash prize. But not long after they arrive on the deserted island, things start to go wrong. After the first challenge leaves everyone rattled and angry, an overnight storm takes matters from bad to worse. Cut off from the mainland by miles of ocean, deprived of their phones, and unable to contact the crew that brought them there, the group must band together for survival. As tensions run high and fresh water runs low, Lyla finds that this game show is all too real—and the stakes are life or death. A fast-paced, spellbinding thriller rife with intrigue and characters that feel so true to life, this novel proves yet again that Ruth Ware is the queen of psychological suspense.

One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware

One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware is the piece by piece ominous summer thriller you need to read!

Synopsis

One Perfect Couple starts us with Lyla and Nico, they have been together for about 2 years. Nico is an aspiring actor and Lyla is a research scientist that has recently failed at her research project. Well, let me say it this way, all her testing for the past couple of years came out inconclusive. She is sure her contract will not be renewed.

Lyla feeling a bit like a failure gives in to Nico’s begging to star in a new a reality show for couples. He is sure that this will jump-start his acting career. The reality show One Perfect Couple, is exactly what that title sounds like. A number of couples on an island, competing to be the last one standing. Lyla is apprehensive at first but caves when her despair with work gets the best of her.

The Catch

The catch to the One Perfect Couple reality show is SUPPOSED to be that the couples get swapped out and eliminated (sometimes individually) in this really weird format. Not only that, the “resort” they’re staying and filming at is hardly finished, its honestly hardly started. They can all smell the wet paint, only enough cabanas for them (none for the filming crew.)

Sketchy as heck!

As day one of filming goes on, one person gets eliminated, then a huge storm passes the small secluded island. Soon the couples start to feel the pressure of being stranded, and personalities clash. Then people start disappearing and dying.

Do I recommend?

I absolutely recommend Ruth Ware’s One Perfect Couple, its such a compelling thriller. I love the feeling of “who done it?” I was constantly changing my guesses of who the killer or villain is/was. (Or are all these deaths truly accidents?) All those different personalities stuck on this super remote secluded island, phew! It was a whirlwind of a book.

One Perfect Couple is the thriller you need for the summer. Grab your copy of One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware here!