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Atlantic Pyramid
The flight started out as usual for flight instructor, Heath Sharp, and his student, Gavin Cole, until a sudden storm forces them to crash into the Atlantic Ocean. Heath awakens to find Gavin dead and his plane stuck in the middle of a historical junkyard. The Bermuda Triangle has claimed hundreds of ships and planes over the centuries and Heath has accidentally happened upon them. Set in the center of the junkyard is an island inhabited by nearly every pilot, sailor, and passenger of those lost transporters, still alive and unchanged. The island is the centerpiece of one of the world’s greatest mysteries and there is no escape for anyone caught in its web. Yet Heath refuses to believe this foggy, dark place will become his last destination and searches for the greatest unfound treasure of a way out.
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- GenresScience Fiction
468 pages, Paperback
First published June 26, 2014
About the author
Michelle E. Lowe
23 books93 followersMichelle Lowe was born in Georgia and spent most of her life in the Atlanta area before relocating to Southern California with her husband, Ben, and their two children.
Her published works include the novels The Warning, Cherished Thief, and Inevitable Impact; the children's book Poe's Haunted House Tour; the fantasy adventure series The Hex Hunt; and the young adult Cycles series, beginning with A Cut Through Time.
Her science fiction thriller, Atlantic Pyramid, earned a place on the Best Books of 2014 list. Other works include the mystery thriller Storyteller; the six-part steampunk fantasy series Legacy; its standalone companion novel, Boom Time; and the four-part steampunk continuation series The Age of the Machine.
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Her published works include the novels The Warning, Cherished Thief, and Inevitable Impact; the children's book Poe's Haunted House Tour; the fantasy adventure series The Hex Hunt; and the young adult Cycles series, beginning with A Cut Through Time.
Her science fiction thriller, Atlantic Pyramid, earned a place on the Best Books of 2014 list. Other works include the mystery thriller Storyteller; the six-part steampunk fantasy series Legacy; its standalone companion novel, Boom Time; and the four-part steampunk continuation series The Age of the Machine.
For more information, visit www.michellelowe.net or follow Michelle on BookBub, Facebook, or Instagram.
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August 19, 2017
Disclaimer: I won a copy of this book. Gloat: it's autographed, so all you future readers, be jealous :)
To me, books need to entertain. I'm not looking for critically acclaimed prose that has hidden subtexts to reveal truths about humanity, or whatever those books' reviews say. I want a unique story, some unpredictability that makes sense in the overall story, a set of characters that don't annoy me, and as a bonus, a little cleverness. The unchallenged king of this last feature is Douglas Adams, in my opinion. Eion Colfer and Rick Riordan are good, and I love that they are influencing young readers and writers. The point? Michelle Lowe has this potential. She had some phrasing that I loved. Why use bland, old metaphors when new ones work better? If the author reads this, consider this a little applause for your amusing way of wording things.
The basic story is that a guy crashes his plane, discovers that he is in the Bermuda Triangle and discovers a society with rules for living in this odd environment. It has pirates, Vikings, aliens, natives. There are birds that eat sharks and ghosts that sometimes get their own revenge. You wonder how it will end, what will the island do, why it happens...and it actually has an ending that wraps up loose ends without breaking your heart because it doesn't end the way you want it to. To avoid spoilers, I'll just say that people rooting for or against the final action should both think their idea fits into the end, which is hard to pull off.
To me, books need to entertain. I'm not looking for critically acclaimed prose that has hidden subtexts to reveal truths about humanity, or whatever those books' reviews say. I want a unique story, some unpredictability that makes sense in the overall story, a set of characters that don't annoy me, and as a bonus, a little cleverness. The unchallenged king of this last feature is Douglas Adams, in my opinion. Eion Colfer and Rick Riordan are good, and I love that they are influencing young readers and writers. The point? Michelle Lowe has this potential. She had some phrasing that I loved. Why use bland, old metaphors when new ones work better? If the author reads this, consider this a little applause for your amusing way of wording things.
The basic story is that a guy crashes his plane, discovers that he is in the Bermuda Triangle and discovers a society with rules for living in this odd environment. It has pirates, Vikings, aliens, natives. There are birds that eat sharks and ghosts that sometimes get their own revenge. You wonder how it will end, what will the island do, why it happens...and it actually has an ending that wraps up loose ends without breaking your heart because it doesn't end the way you want it to. To avoid spoilers, I'll just say that people rooting for or against the final action should both think their idea fits into the end, which is hard to pull off.
May 25, 2020
Wow! What nice surprise. I started reading this book on a recommendation and was leery. Not really into this type of fiction but I gave it a go. Started out interesting. A few romantic slow parts in middle. Ending was very unexpected. Reminded of a mix between "Lost" and "The Beach". Nice read overall.
July 1, 2025
I'll admit i'm a fan of the author, there aren't many of her books I haven't read and fewer still that I don't own. This was an extremely interesting story about happenings inside the Bermuda Triangle. This can easily be described as an adventure, science fiction, fantasy, paranormal memoir. I was completely enthralled in the story and I'll be asking if she has thought about writing a follow up. Take the time and suspend your disbelief, this one has something for everyone.
June 4, 2017
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
The myths about the Bermuda Triangle are real. Heath Sharp learned this the hard way. He was doing his usual job of teaching people in the flight school, but when he is teaching Gavin they get caught up in a storm. When Heath comes to, Gavin is sitting beside him in the cockpit still, but he has died. Heath decides to take some of the items that he may need, and go to the shore, but when he steps outside of his aircraft he sees what looks like a graveyard of water and air vehicles. Some seem to be old pirate ships, like replicas of the ones from the 1600s, some seem to be planes from the 1940s, and some seem to be planes just as new as his.
When he reaches one of the pirate ships, he goes down into what seems to be a sleeping area to see 3 dead bodies. None of them are decayed, but they are all dressed in old pirates clothing. He reads one man’s suicide note, all in very broken English, trying to explain to some captain why he just couldn’t take it anymore.
Once Heath finally makes it to land, he finds out that those bodies were actually from many years ago, that bodies don’t decay in this place, that people are immortal, and that he will never be able to leave.
This book entices me to learn more about the Bermuda Triangle. I love how the author took what people thought was simply a silly myth and turned it into an entire world where people are trapped on this immortal island. Heath’s character doesn’t have that much of a backstory, but that doesn’t mean that he is an uninteresting character to read about. I enjoyed every minute of reading about his adventures on this island and him meeting characters from all over the world in all different time periods.
The only thing that I had an issue with in the book was that it took awhile to get started in my opinion, but then once it got started everything went smoothly from there and I completely enjoyed my read. I recommend this to anyone looking for a new spin on a common myth.
The myths about the Bermuda Triangle are real. Heath Sharp learned this the hard way. He was doing his usual job of teaching people in the flight school, but when he is teaching Gavin they get caught up in a storm. When Heath comes to, Gavin is sitting beside him in the cockpit still, but he has died. Heath decides to take some of the items that he may need, and go to the shore, but when he steps outside of his aircraft he sees what looks like a graveyard of water and air vehicles. Some seem to be old pirate ships, like replicas of the ones from the 1600s, some seem to be planes from the 1940s, and some seem to be planes just as new as his.
When he reaches one of the pirate ships, he goes down into what seems to be a sleeping area to see 3 dead bodies. None of them are decayed, but they are all dressed in old pirates clothing. He reads one man’s suicide note, all in very broken English, trying to explain to some captain why he just couldn’t take it anymore.
Once Heath finally makes it to land, he finds out that those bodies were actually from many years ago, that bodies don’t decay in this place, that people are immortal, and that he will never be able to leave.
This book entices me to learn more about the Bermuda Triangle. I love how the author took what people thought was simply a silly myth and turned it into an entire world where people are trapped on this immortal island. Heath’s character doesn’t have that much of a backstory, but that doesn’t mean that he is an uninteresting character to read about. I enjoyed every minute of reading about his adventures on this island and him meeting characters from all over the world in all different time periods.
The only thing that I had an issue with in the book was that it took awhile to get started in my opinion, but then once it got started everything went smoothly from there and I completely enjoyed my read. I recommend this to anyone looking for a new spin on a common myth.
March 15, 2020
I am working through a few heavy books and have been taking side trips to give me mental digesting time. I’d read the Legacy series and am waiting for the next series Ms. Lowe is currently writing. I remembered seeing a couple other books she’d written, so I picked this one.
I liked the Legacy series, and I liked this more. The Bermuda Triangle was a casual interest when I was 14 and read Berlitz’s looney “non-fiction” book , and when I was 17 and read George Simpson’s and Neal Burger’s much more fun Ghost Boat (not Bermuda, but related). Ms. Lowe was refreshingly creative with this one. Fast paced, a twist or three, imaginative plot...quite good.
I liked the Legacy series, and I liked this more. The Bermuda Triangle was a casual interest when I was 14 and read Berlitz’s looney “non-fiction” book , and when I was 17 and read George Simpson’s and Neal Burger’s much more fun Ghost Boat (not Bermuda, but related). Ms. Lowe was refreshingly creative with this one. Fast paced, a twist or three, imaginative plot...quite good.
June 7, 2017
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
The myths about the Bermuda Triangle are real. Heath Sharp learned this the hard way. He was doing his usual job of teaching people in the flight school, but when he is teaching Gavin they get caught up in a storm. When Heath comes to, Gavin is sitting beside him in the cockpit still, but he has died. Heath decides to take some of the items that he may need, and go to the shore, but when he steps outside of his aircraft he sees what looks like a graveyard of water and air vehicles. Some seem to be old pirate ships, like replicas of the ones from the 1600s, some seem to be planes from the 1940s, and some seem to be planes just as new as his.
When he reaches one of the pirate ships, he goes down into what seems to be a sleeping area to see 3 dead bodies. None of them are decayed, but they are all dressed in old pirates clothing. He reads one man’s suicide note, all in very broken English, trying to explain to some captain why he just couldn’t take it anymore.
Once Heath finally makes it to land, he finds out that those bodies were actually from many years ago, that bodies don’t decay in this place, that people are immortal, and that he will never be able to leave.
This book entices me to learn more about the Bermuda Triangle. I love how the author took what people thought was simply a silly myth and turned it into an entire world where people are trapped on this immortal island. Heath’s character doesn’t have that much of a backstory, but that doesn’t mean that he is an uninteresting character to read about. I enjoyed every minute of reading about his adventures on this island and him meeting characters from all over the world in all different time periods.
The only thing that I had an issue with in the book was that it took awhile to get started in my opinion, but then once it got started everything went smoothly from there and I completely enjoyed my read. I recommend this to anyone looking for a new spin on a common myth.
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The myths about the Bermuda Triangle are real. Heath Sharp learned this the hard way. He was doing his usual job of teaching people in the flight school, but when he is teaching Gavin they get caught up in a storm. When Heath comes to, Gavin is sitting beside him in the cockpit still, but he has died. Heath decides to take some of the items that he may need, and go to the shore, but when he steps outside of his aircraft he sees what looks like a graveyard of water and air vehicles. Some seem to be old pirate ships, like replicas of the ones from the 1600s, some seem to be planes from the 1940s, and some seem to be planes just as new as his.
When he reaches one of the pirate ships, he goes down into what seems to be a sleeping area to see 3 dead bodies. None of them are decayed, but they are all dressed in old pirates clothing. He reads one man’s suicide note, all in very broken English, trying to explain to some captain why he just couldn’t take it anymore.
Once Heath finally makes it to land, he finds out that those bodies were actually from many years ago, that bodies don’t decay in this place, that people are immortal, and that he will never be able to leave.
This book entices me to learn more about the Bermuda Triangle. I love how the author took what people thought was simply a silly myth and turned it into an entire world where people are trapped on this immortal island. Heath’s character doesn’t have that much of a backstory, but that doesn’t mean that he is an uninteresting character to read about. I enjoyed every minute of reading about his adventures on this island and him meeting characters from all over the world in all different time periods.
The only thing that I had an issue with in the book was that it took awhile to get started in my opinion, but then once it got started everything went smoothly from there and I completely enjoyed my read. I recommend this to anyone looking for a new spin on a common myth.
https://brisbooknook.com/the-atlantic...
November 8, 2014
Heath, a flight instructor, was having a routine flight until a sudden storm forces him to crash his plane into the Atlantic Ocean. When he wakes up, he finds out his co-pilot is dead and his plane is stuck in some sort of junkyard. The Bermuda Triangle has been myth and mystery for centuries as planes and ships have disappeared and somehow Heath has found them.
In the middle of junkyard is an island that has almost every person that has gone missing as well in the Bermuda Triangle, but they are still alive somehow. The island has become some sort of prison as no one has managed to escape once they got there. Heath refuses to give up that he will never get back home. Will Heath find a way out?
This book had a very interesting perspective of what might happen to all the planes and ships that go missing in the Bermuda Triangle. We all would think that those aboard the vessels are gone, but maybe it's the beginning of a new type of life.
The book's concept was interesting. It must have been a tough topic to tackle, but the explanation for something mystical could go into many directions. The writing allowed stay on track with a few very interesting twists that could throw the reader off just enough to keep the story interesting and the us the reader interested to finish.
This book was very good not something I would normally read but it was interesting and it kept me wanting to read more. The book was a very imaginative with just enough of the theory about the triangle. A well told story with good characters. The ending was abrupt, but it did not leave you hanging which is what I like. I would recommend this book to my friends and family.
In the middle of junkyard is an island that has almost every person that has gone missing as well in the Bermuda Triangle, but they are still alive somehow. The island has become some sort of prison as no one has managed to escape once they got there. Heath refuses to give up that he will never get back home. Will Heath find a way out?
This book had a very interesting perspective of what might happen to all the planes and ships that go missing in the Bermuda Triangle. We all would think that those aboard the vessels are gone, but maybe it's the beginning of a new type of life.
The book's concept was interesting. It must have been a tough topic to tackle, but the explanation for something mystical could go into many directions. The writing allowed stay on track with a few very interesting twists that could throw the reader off just enough to keep the story interesting and the us the reader interested to finish.
This book was very good not something I would normally read but it was interesting and it kept me wanting to read more. The book was a very imaginative with just enough of the theory about the triangle. A well told story with good characters. The ending was abrupt, but it did not leave you hanging which is what I like. I would recommend this book to my friends and family.
November 18, 2015
I found it hard to really get into this book. It was an interesting theory of the Bermuda Triangle. The explanation, when we finally get around to it, is intriguing. I've always had an interest in this topic and was excited to have a fictional novel about it. The story starts out with a bang. The first 20% was highly interesting. The problem being, it took so long for explanations and they were long winded, I found myself setting this book aside for days at a time, fighting to finish it. I wanted to know if those trapped on this island, made it out, so I kept with it. If you're into sci-fi, and not much action, this is going to be a great read for you. I wanted to see more action. Less explaining, more doing. The author has a great way of creating a scene. Making sure you know what everything looks like. The descriptions were fluid and in depth. I think what it lacked, besides action, was an emotional connection. Yes, they try to create a romance between two of the characters, but they are so quickly separated that it's a fleeting moment. In all this is a well written sci fi story, I just feel that for me, and my taste, it wasn't a knock out, five star read.
February 12, 2016
The Bermuda Triangle has always been a fascinating subject in history so I was certainly intrigued enough to pick up this book about that very subject. The plot turned out to be a great adventure and gave a very unique explanation for why all those ships and planes went missing over time. There was a good peppering of humor throughout the book that made me smile as well. I will say though, that I'm not sure the writing itself was quite as strong as I'd have liked. For example, I felt like random similes were used that didn't flow well with context, sentence structure might be off or there was an explanation for something I think the reader could pick up on intuitively without having to be told directly what was happening or what a character's thought process was. I kept thinking back to my English teacher's favorite phrase "show, don't tell!" But as a whole, I enjoyed reading this book as it was fast paced, kept me interested, and had a great story line!
July 1, 2014
I wouldn't normally go looking for a novel like this, but I didn't have to as it found me, and I'm so glad it did.
An interesting perspective of what happens when planes and ships go missing in the Bermuda Triangle. Most would believe that those aboard these doomed vessels are gone, but perhaps it's just the beginning of an entirely new type of life/existence.
From the moment I started, I didn't want to put this book down ~ I HAD to know what was going to happen next for the characters, and Michelle Lowe did NOT disappoint!
If you like a good mystery/suspense with a bit of history mixed in, then this is a MUST read!!
An interesting perspective of what happens when planes and ships go missing in the Bermuda Triangle. Most would believe that those aboard these doomed vessels are gone, but perhaps it's just the beginning of an entirely new type of life/existence.
From the moment I started, I didn't want to put this book down ~ I HAD to know what was going to happen next for the characters, and Michelle Lowe did NOT disappoint!
If you like a good mystery/suspense with a bit of history mixed in, then this is a MUST read!!
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