A review by amandareads666
The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand

2.5

I was actually rather bored with this one. There were a lot of sections that felt completely unnecessary; it was full of filler. Some of those little details came back around later, but many of them did not. I will say that how everything was laid out and how it all came together was done really well. 

 

I didn’t see any reason why we needed to know about the ferry security guy’s wife dying and his attempts at dating, or about how Chloe’s parents died and she ended up living with her uncle, the police chief. None of that felt relevant. There was a LOT of this kind of extraneous detail. 

 

This reminded me of a less-thriller version of The Guest List by Lucy Foley (although, obviously, this book came out first—I just happened to read that one first). I liked this book more than that one, though. I’m surprised it got a big Netflix adaptation, but it does seem to work better as a show than as a book.