One Good Couple by Ruth Ware
One Good Couple
Thriller
Gallery/Scout Press
Might 21, 2024
E E-book, Audio, Hardback
400
Harkening to Agatha Christie’s basic And Then There Had been None, this high-tension and ingenious thriller follows 5 {couples} trapped on a storm-swept island as a killer stalks amongst them—from Ruth Ware, the New York Instances bestselling writer who “is popping out to be as ingenious and indefatigable because the Queen of Crime” (The Washington Submit). Lyla is in a little bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral analysis has fizzled out, she’s fairly certain they received’t prolong her contract, and issues together with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren’t going nice. When the chance arises for Nico to hitch the forged of a brand new actuality TV present, One Good Couple, she decides to check out with him. A whirlwind audition course of later, Lyla discover herself whisked off to a tropical paradise with Nico, boating by the Indian Ocean in direction of Ever After Island, the place the 2 of them will compete towards 4 different {couples}—Bayer and Angel, Dan and Santana, Joel and Romi, and Conor and Zana—in an effort to win a money prize. However not lengthy after they arrive on the abandoned island, issues begin to go unsuitable. After the primary problem leaves everybody rattled and indignant, an in a single day storm takes issues from dangerous to worse. Minimize off from the mainland by miles of ocean, disadvantaged of their telephones, and unable to contact the crew that introduced them there, the group should band collectively for survival. As tensions run excessive and recent water runs low, Lyla finds that this recreation present is all too actual—and the stakes are life or demise. A quick-paced, spellbinding thriller rife with intrigue and characters that really feel so true to life, this novel proves but once more that Ruth Ware is the queen of psychological suspense.
One Good Couple by Ruth Ware
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Synopsis
One Good Couple begins us with Lyla and Nico, they’ve been collectively for about 2 years. Nico is an aspiring actor and Lyla is a analysis scientist that has just lately failed at her analysis challenge. Effectively, let me say it this manner, all her testing for the previous couple of years got here out inconclusive. She is certain her contract won’t be renewed.
Lyla feeling a bit like a failure provides in to Nico’s begging to star in a brand new a actuality present for {couples}. He’s certain that it will jump-start his performing profession. The truth present One Good Couple, is strictly what that title appears like. Plenty of {couples} on an island, competing to be the final one standing. Lyla is apprehensive at first however caves when her despair with work will get the perfect of her.
The Catch
The catch to the One Good Couple actuality present is SUPPOSED to be that the {couples} get swapped out and eradicated (typically individually) on this actually bizarre format. Not solely that, the “resort” they’re staying and filming at is hardly completed, its actually hardly began. They will all scent the moist paint, solely sufficient cabanas for them (none for the filming crew.)
Sketchy as heck!
As day one in all filming goes on, one particular person will get eradicated, then an enormous storm passes the small secluded island. Quickly the {couples} begin to really feel the stress of being stranded, and personalities conflict. Then folks begin disappearing and dying.
Do I like to recommend?
I completely advocate Ruth Ware’s One Good Couple, its such a compelling thriller. I like the sensation of “who executed it?” I used to be consistently altering my guesses of who the killer or villain is/was. (Or are all these deaths actually accidents?) All these completely different personalities caught on this tremendous distant secluded island, phew! It was a whirlwind of a ebook.
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