Great story with interesting and engaging characters. Who really is good, who is bad, who will survive the experience. This book keeps you invested until the very end.

Ruth Ware does it again! One Perfect Couple is about several couples being chosen for a new reality TV show on a brand new island resort. One by one, the contestants are disappearing or found dead, and the remaining survivors need to somehow live off of limited food and water while also trying to survive the things that are happening on the island. 4/5 stars, I thoroughly enjoyed this book!

Excellent mystery. I loved the premise and the surprises throughout. Great character building and plot development.

e-book ARC from Netgalley, all opinions are my own

This thriller was the PERFECT blend of reality island dating shows and locked room (locked island?) mystery! Ruth Ware is one of those authors that I automatically read when she releases a new title, and I loved the way she told this story so much! The back and forth of the narrative was a well written plot device, as well as the diary passages interspersed throughout the chapters. I don't want to give any spoilers, because the twist is delicious.

This was an insane ride! The story started like a bachelor-type reality show that went from sweet to insane in one night! There was a storm that happened one night and then BOOM! The love show turned into a show like Survivor! A daydream that turned into a nightmare overnight! I could not put this one down! I loved it!
Lyla is whisked off to a tropical paradise with her longtime boyfriend Nico. While everything seemed to be amazing at the beginning it slowly turned dark for the couple. Nico loses the game and is ultimately eliminated from the show then another couple is broken up because Lyla and the other boyfriend have to share a hut for the night part of the show to test compatibility and basically to test the people. Unfortunately that night there was a terrible storm that cut off their connection with the producers of the show. People were injured and then a couple were killed. So the remaining contestants must come together to survive and while everything seems to have a promising start things slowly start to turn sinister when another person dies and another male is coveting all the food and controlling all aspects of the chance of survival. Will they survive or will they all end up killing one another? You must pick up this novel to check it out! It will have you on the edge of your seat! Thank you Netgalley and Gallery Books for allowing me to read and review this one!

Ruth Ware is usually a superstar to me but this one... well it didn't quite fall flat, it had some substance, the problem was that it felt a little too derivative/standard? Like, i didn't expect it to completely erase all standards or anything, it just didn't have anything unique. Still, 3.5~3.75.

This was my first Ruth Ware book and it was just ok for me.

I disliked the characters and the men were sexist and it seemed like they were better than the women.

I was anxious and wanted to see how it ended so I did finish the book

Ruth Ware books are usually a hit for me, and this book joins that list. A great example of roles people often find themselves in society.

I wasn’t able to finish this before the publishing date which sucks because I was so excited to read this.

I enjoyed this and the writing style, and the story was compelling. I am very interested in reading this author’s future work and this was a very solid thriller. Would definitely recommend to others.

Enjoyed this one more than her last but still not my favorite of Ware's books. This is a locked roomed (island) mystery and a story of survival all in one. I did enjoy how everything connected at the end, giving it an extra star.

Special thanks to NetGalley for the advanced reader copy of this book. Ruth Ware is an author I typically jump at to read, but recently her books have fallen a little short and this one was no exception to that. The survival island books have been done over and over again and this one didn't offer anything new and exciting. I was really hoping for a big plot twist at the end to salvage the story, but there really wasn't one, so I was left unsatisfied. This one was just ok.

Ruth Ware is so hit or miss for me. I love some of her books, and really don't others. This was one of the ones I didn't love. It drug out way too long the more mundane part of the plot. Then went off the rails on this kind of reality thing but also not plot line? It didn't feel like a mystery or a thriller in my opinion.

More of a 3.5. I have enjoyed other Ruth Ware novels but this one fell short for me. There were plot holes and it lacked a twist that I like with thrillers. As the contestants were killed off one by one, the reader tends to lose track of them and a lot of assumptions are made without any backup. And then the story just kind ended.

Ruth Ware is a hit or miss author for me and unfortunately this was a miss. Initially, I was intrigued by the plot — but started to lose interest due to a LACK of plot and unlikeable characters.

I really enjoy reading Ruth Ware. I would not call this a psychological thriller. It was more of a survivalist novel. I kept waiting for a big twist, but everything was so straightforward. Baz setting everything up to embarrass Connor wasn't enough of an reveal for me. I expect a mystery with Ruth Ware and this book just didn't have it. It was still a good read. I would recommend to patrons who enjoy thrillers.

Not at all what I expected.

Well, finally, this is over. What a nightmare of a read. Despite being lured in by the synopsis that pretended to relate to reality television competitions, the book was basically a bad episode of a survivor show. With totally nasty, hideous characters and a very disjoined narrative. The writing was terrible and repetitive, and the book was way too long. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I tried, in vain, to understand why others liked it but I can't relate. There were so many missed opportunities for the author to use the setting and the show concept, but those were ignored and missed. The motive for the whole experience was so lame it strained the last bit of my credulity.

I listened to the audiobook while also following along in the e-book ARC provided by the publisher. Usually, this approach makes me enjoy a book more, but in this case, the narrator's voice and the way she expressed the characters put me over the edge. The mispronunciations (such as her saying inchulin for insulin) and the very bad French accent, not to mention the male character voices grated on every last nerve. Hard pass for future Ware novels. I've tried and now I'm totally done.

I love Ruth Ware. This was a fun reading journey. The reveals throughout the book weren't big or catchy which made the pacing of this book a little hard. This would be a good book club pick or a quick pool read.

I find Ruth Ware to be highly inconsisent in the quality of her works. This one was a total dud for me. Everything about it falls flat from the unlikeable characters to the lackluster concusion. I just cannot recommend this one unless, like these characters, you are stuck on a desert island and have nothing else to read. Even then you might want to skip it and go play in the sand or something.

I've enjoyed previous books by this author and have enjoyed then. I enjoyed this one as well but it did not do as much for me as some of her others. I'm not sure I can put my finger on why it didn't grab me as much. I still enjoyed it plenty but it fits in the "pretty good" but not "great" category.

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