Monster Blood Tattoo - 02 - Lamplighter

✍ Scribed by D.M. Cornish

• Book ID: 100070595
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.;Firebird
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1101460679

✦ Synopsis

Review

ÒReminiscent of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien or Robert Jordan.Ó Ñ_School Library Journal_, starred review

ÒFrom the pre-industrial English feel to the sprawling setting and backstory, this book feels every bit as substantial as its heft implies.Ó Ñ_Publishers Weekly_, starred review

ÓGives the Dickensian orphan story an original spin. . . . Expertly envisioned and peopled with intriguing characters.Ó Ñ_Booklist_, starred review

Product Description

Continuing the absorbing, inventive saga started in Foundling, Lamplighter follows RossamŸnd Bookchild, now one of the EmperorÕs lamplighters, who is sworn to protect travelers from the ferocious bogles that live in the wild. Small and meek, he does not fit in. Then a haughty young female monster hunter is forced upon the lamplighters for training. As RossamŸnd begins to make new friends in the dangerous world of the Half-Continent, he also seems to make more enemies, finding himself pushed toward a destiny that he could never have imagined. . . .