Thanks NetGalley for the ARC! This was an adventure and a half!
Lord of the Flies vibes crossed with reality show drama. I sped through this fun read.

One Perfect Couple is an engaging thriller that combines a reality tv and survival story plot. The book is a bit gory and full of women’s empowerment. An engaging and satisfying read even though it ended up being different than I anticipated!

Ruth Ware does it again! This is a tense thriller set on a remote island in the Indian Ocean. Five couples have won spots on an upcoming reality T.V. show called One Perfect Couple. They just get to the island and have the first challenge and then a storm hits. The couples are stranded with little provisions. Then people start dying!
This was a thriller with lots of twists and turns. I loved the "trapped" feeling of being on a remote island, having to ration food and water. Just when I thought I knew what would happen, another twists came along. I felt like I was on that island with the characters!
The book also spoke to bullying and domestic abuse.
At the beginning it was a little hard to remember who all the characters were and who was with who, but eventually they all came into their own voice.
I highly recommend this book. It is one of Ruth Ware's best!

Thanks to the Edelweiss publishing and NetGalley for a copy of this book!

Thanks to NetGalley for allowing me to read this in exchange for an honest review.

This was fine. Part nature survival, part murder mystery. Lyla finds herself on a private island with her fame-hungry boyfriend as part of a new couples’ reality show. When a storm hits the island, things go terribly wrong. It was a fast read that kept my attention but ultimately the ending wasn’t great and I would have liked to read more about the actual reality show.

I love Ruth Ware books, and One Perfect Couple did not disappoint. It was exciting and very suspenseful. How could anyone not like a survival story with so much drama? Anyway, I totally recommend One Perfect Couple. I think it might be Ruth Ware’s best book to date!

Thank you to @NetGalley and @Simon&Schuster for the egalley of One Perfect Couple. Ruth Ware weaves her magic of intrigue, suspense, death, and the fight of your life on a remote island featuring 5 couples in a reality show to find the perfect couple. Lyla joins in with her boyfriend Nico to help his career take off, help their sagging relationship, and to avoid her job that is fizzling fast. They land on the beautiful and remote island, but things quickly take a turn Lyla and Nico had not expected. Add in a tropical storm, no phones or internet, no boat and a killer among them—and the reality tv becomes too real as each person fights for their life. Groups form and alliance are made as each tried to survive each day without much food or water and no confirmation of outside help for those injured. Each decision is imperative to survival and to learn who the killer is stop them….before it’s too late for all. Ruth Ware has yet another best seller!!

<b>A thrilling take on reality TV, where contestants are being eliminated one by one.</b>

Lyla, fresh off a disappointing study in her post-doctoral scientific research, agrees to join her boyfriend Nico, a struggling actor, as contestants on the new reality TV series „One Perfect Couple“. Filming on a small, remote island in the Indian Ocean, five couples will compete for the grand price, though contestants may be eliminated individually, or „re-coupled“ with other contestants. But after the first elimination, a tropical storm hits the island. Cut off from the outside, without electricity and with food and water scarcely low, the remaining contestants soon realize that the stakes have suddenly become very high - and as they seem to die one by one, this elimination round will be final.

A fresh new take on reality TV, combined with a claustrophobic mixture of „Lord of the Flies“ and „And Then There Were None“, this thrilling read had me fly through the pages. Sure, the filming bits seemed a bit ridiculous even for a small crew (who lets the contestants meet each other for the first time while cameras aren‘t rolling? And that‘s just my first question), but the setup of the story worked very well, the pacing was great, and the story was gripping even once it was evident who was picking off the contestants one by one, keeping you guessing about who - if anyone - might make it off the island alive.

After her enjoyable, most recent book „The It Girl“, Ruth Ware delivers another breathtaking mystery that will further establish her as one of the queens of thrillers and suspense stories. I would even go so far as to say that „One Perfect Couple“ is her best yet, and will surely - and deservedly - be a bestseller.

Thank you to NetGalley and Scout Press for the ARC in advance for my honest review.

Thank you NetGalley and Gallery Books for the eARC.
Lyla and her partner Nico are invited to join a reality show set on an island in the Indian Ocean. Everything feels great the first day (except having to give up their devices) but a huge storm ends all fun, wrecking just about everything on the island and killing two people. The rest of them wait for their boat to return, but that doesn't happen. The group disintigrates psychologically and physically from thirst, hunger, fear and growing animosity. More deaths follow.
It's a gripping book that's hard to put down!

Lyla, a Ph.d scientist agrees to join her wanna-be actor boyfriend, Nico on a reality tv program set on a tropical island in the Indian Ocean. He gets kicked off the first day when he demonstrates that he knows almost nothing about her. That night a tropical storm hits, sending the boat away, destroying some of the island, and causing the first death. Things quickly degenerate into a Lord of the Flies scenario as one person dominates, taking control of supplies and behaviors. As the contestants begin to die in a variety of ways, the survivors have to make tough choices about how they can gain control and get off the island.
I don’t want to spoil the ending of this well-written and tightly packed novel.

I have read many of Ruth Ware's books over the years and some I have loved more than others. This was a fun, twisty take on the reality show fascination. We have Nico and Lyla, a happily dating couple of. a few years. They get an opportunity to go on a reality show called the perfect couple, set on a remote island. Nico wants fame and wants to go so Lyla goes for him with plans to bow out fast and get back to life in the real world. But quickly things don't go according to plan and its off from there. As a reality tv watcher this intrigued me. It had several unexpected twists but also had some good insights into the downfalls of reality tv. This was a fast read, with good surprises and some things I expected but overall a good turn from Ruth Ware that I think people will enjoy.

Ruth Ware has hit another home run with her latest novel. One Perfect Couple. It's somewhat like an adult version of Lord of the Flies, with characters you will love and pull for and others that you will dislike immensely. You will find yourself guessing, and eagerly turning the pages for more clues to find out just whodunnit!
Thanks, NetGalley and the publisher, for providing me with the ARC ebook I read and reviewed. All opinions are my own.

Another home run for Ruth Ware—One Perfect Couple was a wild ride. The setting is familiar for fans of reality television, an exotic island getaway, young wannabe influencers and a cash prize promised at the end of the adventure. The competition starts earlier than expected when a harrowing storm changes everything. Now the true endgame is survival, not just the win. Ware’s signature engaging character development gives readers clues that may or may not help answer the question: is anyone supposed to be alive at the end of this show? Get ready to stay up all night to finish—you won’t want to look away.

The whole “And Then There Were None” trope seems to be very popular these days—maybe a little too popular. Still, I wanted to see what Ruth Ware did with her twist on it. I own two of her books but haven’t yet read them, but I know of Ms. Ware’s reputation as a thriller author, and I *do* like the trapped with a killer kind of story.

Let’s get down to it. This is an enjoyable read. The circumstances of the five couples being stranded on the island are entirely plausible. There are some events in here that require suspension of disbelief, but I’ll admit that things are gonna get dicey when you start running out of fresh water and viable food sources.

In the course of reading this story, you will probably want to punch more than one person in the face. You will throw up your hands in frustration at some of the decisions made. You will learn British terms such as “boffin” and “totting” up (scientist and adding/counting up—I learned something new! 😄). One character will say a freak-ton of things in French while managing to look impossibly beautiful while also wholly dehydrated. You may or may not notice that the F word is the only thing the characters will use when they are experiencing literally any emotion. 🙄

Despite all of that, the last quarter of the book is so engrossing that I shut out everything going on around me—music playing, my son laughing and my husband trying (in vain) to talk to me. I was enthralled. I think you will be, too.

Also, at the end, it begs the question…would you do the same? What would you do to stay alive?

My thanks to NetGalley, Gallery Books and Scout Press for the complimentary advance copy. I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Love is Blind/Love Island meets Lord of the Flies. It’s that time for another Ruth Ware book and this one definitely didn’t disappoint! This one holds you to the very end with a few twists that happen in the last few chapters. Overall a very good book with the typical Ruth Ware flair to it!

I received a free advanced copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I’m a huge Ruth Ware fan, but unfortunately this one did not live up to her usual writing. This survival story, initially framed as a reality TV show disrupted by a storm, was fairly disappointing with its ending. Despite a cleverly concealed twist, the conclusion lacks satisfaction, and the slow pace failed to capture the intensity of the survival scenario it was portraying.

In Ruth Ware’s new novel she brings the thrill once again! In “One Perfect Couple”, Ruth Ware keeps you on your toes trying to figure out whodunnit!! What should have been a fun opportunity to join a new reality tv show on a tropical island, quickly turns into a game of survival and deciding who you can trust.

I had to sit with my thoughts for a day on this one before I started my review. I have read four other Ruth Ware books and it’s safe to say I’m a fan! I have given four star to all of them. This book, One Perfect Couple starts off with the couple Lyla & Nico who seem mismatched from the start. She is a scientist who is studying viruses and he is an aspiring actor who comes across well to put it bluntly, selfish, vain and less intelligent. He convinces Lyla to go to an island to participate in the realty show “One Perfect Couple”. The book follows the storylines of four couples and the crew that is working the show.

I found myself investing in the storylines and shocked and outraged at some of the players actions. You start connecting with some of the players and rooting for them. All in all I really enjoyed this one. It does touch on sensitive topics such as rape, domestic violence and suicide though, so be cautious if those are triggers for you. All in all I loved this book and would recommend it! Another winner for Ruth Ware.

Ruth Ware does it again! She writes incredible characters and an exciting story that kept me guessing. Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book

Five couples are vying for the prize on reality TV show “The Perfect Couple”. It becomes all too real once a storm comes through, making them fight to survive. This is a slow, suspenseful read. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy.

I don't typically read the current flux of reality TV thrillers, but since it's Ruth Ware I made an exception- and I'm glad I did.
Ware's customary great writing is here, but the fast-paced, terrifying action is different from her usual creepy, twisty mysteries.

Thank you Netgalley, Scout Press/Gallery Books for this exciting digital review ARC by a legend.