The Perfect Couple
By Elin Hildebrand
(Nantucket #3)
Published Year : 2018
Page Count: 347 pages
Medium Used: Kindle PW
Genre : Romance, Mystery, Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Drama, Crime, 2024-read.
Rating : 4/5
The ending is such an anticlimax and a let down for me - it almost feels like being cheated. I got so high and invested in the narrative..I lost sleep for most of last night and was reading all day since I got up this morning. The character development is ooof .. the characters are filled with life, credulity and fly off the page into the reader's mind space. I loved the layout of the narrative. I loved the writing.
I would have liked if the mother of the family was a bit on the negative side as well. I mean, really, having Nicole Kidman play the role and making it all cute, nice and kind, compassionate is like wasting enormous talent. I picked this book because I saw an ad that there is a limited series coming up on Netflix starring Nicole Kidman and other interesting actors. I am an ardent fan of her work and thought will give this author(book) a shot. I am amazed at how good the writing is. At how up to speed the author is with the modern trends and generational behaviors!
I learnt some things like .. how what appears on the surface is not what lies beneath. Some people and their behaviors appear too good to be true. There is no such thing as 'perfect' in this world..be it a couple or a person or an experience. Trying to want and have what another has can be sadly besotted with wrong judgements and wrong choices.
Tag and Greer Winbury are powerful, rich and sparkling couple with a happy family. They have two children - Thomas and Benji. Thomas is married to Abby and they are expecting a child. Benji is about to get married to Celeste who is an assistant director at a Zoo in New York. Early morning on the day of their marriage,on the island of Nantucket, Celeste finds the floating dead body of her best friend and maid of honor, Merritt. It spins off a police investigation that spills out the beans and drags the closet skeletons the family members have been hiding in attempts to appear 'perfect'. So who has killed the maid of honor? Are Tag and Greer the perfect couple ? Or what about Thomas and Abby? Benji and Celeste? Or Celeste's mom and dad who are suffering and struggling with the mom's advanced cancer? Is there such a thing as perfect really?
I felt so much pity for Merritt after the book wrapped up and my heart went out to all such lost and misguided girls out there .. who yearn for something, want something but end up with something else entirely. :/ It is a sorry world really where one seeks love and gets only indifference!
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