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The Book With No Name Week – Day 2 – Review

24th May 2011 By Susan Mann Leave a Comment



Description:- Detective Miles Jensen is called to the lawless town of Santa Mondega to investigate a spate of murders. This would all be quite ordinary in those rough streets, except that Jensen is the Chief Detective of Supernatural Investigations. The breakneck plot centers around a mysterious blue stone—The Eye of the Moon—and the men and women who all want to get their hands on it: a mass murderer with a drinking problem, a hit man who thinks he’s Elvis, and a pair of monks among them. Add in the local crime baron, an amnesiac woman who’s just emerged from a five-year coma, a gypsy fortune teller, and a hapless hotel porter, and the plot thickens fast. Most importantly, how do all these people come to be linked to the strange book with no name? This is the anonymous, ancient book that no one seems to have survived reading. Everyone who has ever read it has been murdered. What can this mean?


Review:- I’m not sure about you but with this quote on the back cover “Whatever you do, don`t read the book with no name. An untitled book by an anonymous author brings death to anyone who reads it.” I’ve got to read it…


The original cover of The Book With No Name is what pulled me in at first, the first chapter had me hooked. This book is faced paced, short snappy chapters each ending with a cliffhanger, leaving you wanting, begging for me. 


It’s a mixture of the Wild Wild West meets violent gangs, meets the Supernatural all rolled into one. To put it into a genre is in my opinion impossible. Everything is so over the top it was farcical and addictive at the same time.  

It constantly changed from one genre to another and was at times hard to work out where the story was going. Possibly that was the authors intention in that the constant changing would keep the readers interest. 

I would have liked to have seen a few more female characters thrown into the mix, but it’s just a passing observation. No character is safe, who will be next. It’s very bloody and graphic but not too graphic which I have to say was good. I’m not into a huge amount of violent, graphic, detail. I love how the book is formed from different points of view giving the reader a bigger and more clearer picture of what is going on. Let’s face it, Vampire Killer Monks, what’s not to like.

The first third of the book very fast pace, middle third it slowed down and final third all the pieces began to fall into place, leaving enough questions for the story to continue. 

With the mixture of genres this books covers, I would say it has something for everyone. It’s a fast paced, easy and entertaining ride.


Disclaimer:- I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion, which I have given.
This post is protected under copyright. SusankMann 2009 – 2014

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