from amazon: "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 centres 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 drink 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. "The Book With No Name" is a fast-paced, cinematic page-turner shot through with black humour, which will hold you rapt from its intriguing opening to the dramatic climax. There's only one way to find out what happens when you read the book with no name...A book with no name - by an anonymous author. Everyone who has ever read it has been murdered. What can this mean? " (http://www.amazon.de/Book-No-Name/dp/1843172836/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1276104356&sr=8-1)

sending it out as a Ray. Please do not keep the book for longer than 8 weeks. Other people are waiting for it. If for whatever reason you do need a bit longer, please contact me and/or the next participant. Due to the shipping preferences skipping or changing the order of participants is almost impossible. Thank you! And I hope you enjoy the book.

Participants (order might be changed according to the shipping preferences):

1. AliceF (UK)
2. blueblack (UK)
3. Esme-Weatherwax (Ireland)
4. seayork2002 (UK) Thank you for shipping Int'l
5. Lunar73 (Australia) Thank you for shipping Int'l
6. CindyPereira (Malaysia) Thank you for shipping Int'l
7. NMReader (US) End of Ray. Please ray it forward or pass it on in any other way you like.

The book will start its journey tomorrow.

Gratefully received in the post yesterday: thanks!

Received today!

Crime/thriller-type novels aren't usually my thing, but I thought I'd try and break out of my comfort zone and give something different a chance.

I wasn't too impressed with this book. The writing style seemed very juevenile, relishing over-the-top cartoony violence, flat characters and profanity-peppered dialogue. The twists and turns of the plot were ineffective as I never became emotionally invested in any of the characters, nor really cared who lived or died. I found a lot of the inhabitants of Santa Mondega interchangeable, a constant succession of badasses, each more badass than the next, trying to outdo each other in badassery.

Looking online, I was surprised to find a fairly rabid fanbase for this novel (and sequel... sequels?) I can't imagine anyone reading this and going "this is the most amazing book I have ever seen!" Then again, I can't understand people having that reaction to the Twilight novels, either...

Off to Esme Weatherwax!

Launched over the Irish Sea today

Got it yesterday. Been down with the flu will start it as soon as I finish The Things They Carried. I look forward to a little light reading after The Things They Carried and this should do the trick!!!

I hated the 1st few chapters of the book. However, I then started to like it a bit. It is a book that has to be taken with a grain of salt. The author uses every cliché there is, but it can be fun to see what he/she uses next. The book is a bit like a Tarantino film bloody, over the top, pointless but fun. It is not the best book I have read by far but not the worst either. I would not mind reading the 2nd book if I saw it, but I would not buy it. I will say I wish my local library was like the one in the book.

Off to York

Thanks for this book, it is next on my list, I will contact the next person for their address.

Arrived last week thanks seayork2002. got two to read before it, will try my best to get it read within 6 weeks.

Can't get into this one, will pm CindyPereia and send it on its way.

Haven't heard from CindyPereia, so I have pmed NMReader.

On its way to NMReader