{"id":23319,"date":"2025-10-07T06:16:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23319"},"modified":"2025-09-28T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:07:23","slug":"book-48-of-52-one-perfect-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/book-48-of-52-one-perfect-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 48 (of 52) &#8211; One Perfect Couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23321\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oneperfectcouple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23321\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23321\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oneperfectcouple.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oneperfectcouple.jpg 332w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oneperfectcouple-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Ware &#8211; One Perfect Couple<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After hitting a dead end in her research, Lyla agrees to join her boyfriend, an aspiring actor, as contestants on a new reality show.\u00a0 Planning to treat the show as a vacation, Lyla assumes she will be booted in the first two weeks.\u00a0 Unfortunately, an unexpected tropical storm after the first challenge, which Lyla one but which booted her boyfriend from the show, left the remaining contestants stranded and injured.\u00a0 The longer they remain on the island, their numbers, and their food and water supply, keep dwindling.\u00a0\u00a0As tensions start to run high, can Lyla and her fellow contestants manage to take control of their situation until help arrives?<\/p>\n<p>Released in 2024, <em>One Perfect Couple<\/em> brings Ruth Ware back to my attention for the first time in nearly two years.\u00a0 While the bones of the plot date back to Agatha Christie and the classic <em>And Then There Were None<\/em>, Ware wraps it in a contemporary setting to breathe in some new life.\u00a0 I hope it won&#8217;t be another two years before I circle back to Ware&#8217;s work again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After hitting a dead end in her research, Lyla agrees to join her boyfriend, an aspiring actor, as contestants on a new reality show.\u00a0 Planning to treat the show as a vacation, Lyla assumes she will be booted in the first two weeks.\u00a0 Unfortunately, an unexpected tropical storm after the first challenge, which Lyla one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8435,12147,12146,9877],"class_list":["post-23319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-agatha-christie","tag-and-then-there-were-none","tag-one-perfect-couple","tag-ruth-ware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23323,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23319\/revisions\/23323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}