I am officially so in love with this author’s storytelling. Every time I pick up one of her books, I get completely absorbed emotionally invested, attached to the characters, and unwilling to leave the world she’s created. Beyond the Moonlit Sea was no exception.Quick summary:Beyond the Moonlit Sea follows two women across dual timelines and multiple POVs, whose lives become unexpectedly intertwined by love, loss, and long-buried secrets. Olivia’s world is shattered when her husband, Dean a priv...

Contemporary Women's FictionPublication date ‏ : ‎ June 14, 2022 Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb, Graham Halstead, Reba Buhr Olivia Hamilton set out to search for answers when her husband, Dean, vanishes over the Bermuda Triangle. Melanie Brown is a particle physicist who spends late nights studying the Bermuda Triangle. The two women’s strange connection threatens to unlock secrets that will change everything Olivia thought she knew about her marriage, her husband, an...

Not as romantic or mysterious as one might be led to believe from the title, cover art, and/or book synopsis referencing the Bermuda Triangle.I wouldn't really call it book club fiction, though, either. More a light suspense. Perhaps contemporary fiction is best, even if the story starts out in 1990 and 1986.A few anachronisms, as characters say things like "safe space " and "look it up", which aren't 20th century phrases. Also, the novel could use a good scrub to remove non-American terms and p...

Whew. By page 13, I was swept up and over my head in Beyond the Moonlit Sea. In this romantic mystery, love and tragedy go hand-in-hand. Julianne MacLean’s writing is flawless and beautiful, so smooth that it is almost hypnotizing. And just when the reader is settled into the story, the author throws in a twist, and goes on to pen a multi-plot story that is a tale of hope and perseverance with women who remain faithful and forgiving even in the face of undeniable truths. The world’s greatest wri...

About the book: “From the bestselling author of These Tangled Vines comes a gripping novel about one woman’s search for answers when her husband vanishes in the night.”After enjoying These Tangled Vines, I was looking forward to MacLean’s latest, especially because it involves a mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle, which is off the coast of North Carolina down to Miami and Puerto Rico and has always intrigued me.Olivia is married to Dean, who disappears over the Bermuda Triangle. After year...

EXCERPT: Olivia - Miami 1990I should have known better. I shouldn't have said the things I did. That's what I told myself when I learned what happened to my husband on his return flight from the US Virgin Islands. But isn't that what we all say after something goes terribly wrong and we look back and wish we had behaved differently. ABOUT 'BEYOND THE MOONLIT SEA': Olivia Hamilton is married to the love of her life, Dean, a charismatic pilot who flies private jets for the rich and famous. But whe...

Thanks to NetGalley & Lake Union Publishing for an eARC of this book. The following review is my honest reflection on the text provided.Is June a plane crash mystery month or something I don't know about? Beyond the Moonlit Sea is the second eARC I've read with a lost plane at the centre of the narrative (see: The Gravity of Missing Things ).I may be in the minority here - the GoodReads rating is very high - but I found Olivia to be an insufferable perspective to read. To be fair, tho...

Olivia Hamilton marries Dean Robinson, she doesn’t care that her elderly father doesn’t approve and the newlyweds move to Miami. Dean changes professions, he’s now a pilot and he flies private jets. When Dean’s plane vanishes over the Bermuda Triangle, he’s the only one aboard and Olivia’s shocked and devastated. The official verdict is announced, despite this Olivia still holds onto some hope, as time goes on she has to accept Dean’s gone and moves on with her life.Melanie Brown is a particle p...

Buckle up my friends! Beyond the Moonlit Sea is quite a curvy little seaside ride. 😲Olivia is married to Dean Hamilton, a successful pilot. When Dean's aircraft disappears above the Bermuda Triangle the couple's blissful marriage comes to an end. Olivia mourns Dean's loss for a number of years. Will she ever be able to move past the pain?Melanie Brown researches the Bermuda Triangle for many hours each day. Melanie seeks grief counseling with a male therapist following the death of her mother. ...

Julianne MacLean is an author I've been wanting to read for awhile now and I'm so glad I finally got the chance. I love her writing style! I must do a shout out to a great Canadian author too! (Woot Woot!!) 🇨🇦 I really enjoyed the story and the writing flows easily from one timeline to another.The timeline of the story changes from 1986 to 1990 and well into the later 1990's. It then goes into 2012 and ends in 2017. It's a story that follows the life of Olivia Hamilton. She is a young wife and...