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How Does 'The Perfect Couple' End?

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Yasmin
Yasmin
A couple that once was Instagram’s #RelationshipGoals is seen silently gazing at the horizon from their pretty terrace as the sky turns orange in a sunset ending to their relationship. Once perfect husband and wife, they’ve fallen apart after his hidden gambling debt & texts proving he hired someone to harm her career were exposed. In this painfully realistic short story, she serves him divorce papers in a glass of his favorite Whisky (laced with laxatives – yes, it’s that petty). He drinks it anyway. The end of their fake love is quiet and unsurprising.
2025-06-29
Caleb
Caleb
In the end, in The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, the golden couple Celeste and Jonathan have endured it all - Celeste accused of having been having an affair with Jonathan, the two losing their home, and Jonathan being put on trial for murder. And in the end, it was all just a big lie. The secrets that Jonathan had been keeping from Celeste finally came to light in a vault beneath their home. Jonathan had been carrying on an affair with the late best friend of Celeste's, and it had begun before her accidental death. The last scene is of Celeste standing on the beach, a portrait of herself and Jonathan going up in flames as she watches. Her face is lit by the flames of the fire and in the distance police sirens can be heard.

This is a haunting read. Jonathan’s downfall is described to the reader but not shown. Instead we see Celeste’s gradual transformation from perfect wife to revenge seeking widow. It is chilling and is shown without any drama or emotion. The fire that she uses to burn the wedding photos is a great symbol for their marriage. It looked perfect from the outside but was indeed dangerous to be around. Many readers have questioned whether or not Celeste knew about Jonathan’s affair with her late best friend before the events of the book took place. The author never answers this for the reader on purpose. Many endings are tied up with a bow but not this book. This book lights a fuse and leaves the reader to imagine what happens next.
2025-06-30
Scarlett
Scarlett
This is Gone Girl-style plotting with more high heels involved. The cheated-on-wife kills her husband in the end and then fakes her own death and frames him for the crime by leaving his DNA at the scene of the crime where he was murdered. The wife then moves to Bali under an assumed identity and spends her days reading the newspaper about her ex-husband’s life in prison. The last entry in her diary reads, “Perfection requires editing.” I loved this book. Never underestimate the power of a woman armed with a computer spreadsheet and a grudge.
2025-07-03
Quinn
Quinn
A glass slips from a finger and falls to the marble floor, splinters and spills. It’s the end of The Perfect Couple not with a romantic kiss but with a court’s verdict. It’s been a long, hot summer of gardens full of parties, of a dreadful scandal in the press, of a mysterious drowning which was murder after all. In the end it was the husband, suave, rich, young tech billionaire, who did for his first wife in order to marry up with her best friend, the narrator of this novel. And then, the final twist, his second wife had been secretly recording his confession. As he is led away by the police in handcuffs the new wife smiles all the way to her fortune. Expensive justice.
2025-07-04

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