The Unfinished Honeymoon

by Johnny Moscato

Step inside the mind of author Nick Gimitacos, where the world is a dystopian nightmare, everyone else is blind, and disaster is always one precarious step away.

A long-delayed honeymoon in The Bahamas should feel like a reward. The beaches glow. The locals smile. Life seems effortless.

Nick is determined to make it the perfect honeymoon, the one they’ve waited three years for.

Then his wife disappears.

And the nightmare he’s always seen in the world is no longer confined to his own head.

The Unfinished Honeymoon — a slow-burn psychological thriller about perception, uncertainty, and the terror of a mind you can't fully trust.

356 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 3, 2026

Reviews

[Joshua Grant · Rating 5 out of 5]

Johnny Moscato weaves a twisting psychological thriller for us with The Unfinished Honeymoon! Author Nick Gimitacos has always lived in his head, a dark and dystopian place filled with a blind population. Yet, when he heads to the Bahamas with his wife, he’s determined to give her the best honeymoon they never had. This all changes when his wife suddenly disappears, and Nick begins to find the darkness isn’t just confined to the world within his head. I love Moscato’s writing across his books because he always takes a deep focus on character and twists that in really interesting ways. In the case of Nick, we’re treated to a man who is tortured by the demons in his head, but also a delightfully unreliable narrator that makes this mystery thrilling. I was actually really pleasantly reminded of Shutter Island and the weird twists there (although I feel like Moscato makes his characters far more likeable than in that flick). All around, if you’re looking for a good tense mystery that sticks with you, definitely come investigate in sunny sandy Bahamas with The Unfinished Honeymoon!

[liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rounded up from 3.5
The perspective from someone with bipolar disorder navigating daily interactions with others made the story interesting. The happenstance “luck of the draw” ending was “meh”, however the overall story was entertaining pulling me in until the end.

[Chelsea]

The story was starting off a little interesting, but the grammar and overall writing turned me off. I just couldn’t work with it.