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The eagerly awaited second book of the critically acclaimed trilogy!
Orphan Rossamünd Bookchild has been sworn into the Emperor’s service—his duty is to light the lamps along the Emperor’s highways and protect travelers from the ferocious bogles that live in the wild. But he’s found it no easier to fit in with the lamplighters than he did with the foundlings—always too small and too meek—and his loneliness continues no matter how hard he tries to succeed.
But when a haughty young girl, a member of a suspiciously regarded society of all-women teratologists— monster hunters—is forced upon the lamplighters for training, Rossamünd is no longer the most despised soul around. As Rossamünd 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.
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By Jane Irwan (Millbrae, CA)
I love love this series!! Can't wait for the 3rd book to come out in Sept 2010.
By Joshua Busch (Minneapolis)
This book is wildly inventive and deeply embedded in the world in which Cornish has created. I happened upon this series by accident and I don't understand why the series isn't bigger. This series could easily be a movie(s).
By Daniel F. Van Werken (Scotia, NY)
This book is a transition book. We have Rossamund, who was bound and determined from the first book to fulfill his duty to society and his fellows to become a responsible Lamplighter. In book 1, while he had troubles getting to the Lamplighter Headquarters for training, he finally reaches it. While Rossumund had adventures getting there and a job offer any one of us would consider better than being a Lamplight, he stuck to his original plan.
In this book, Book 2, Rossamund does indeed begin training and graduates from the academy to become what he started out to do. However, we can guess that his life isn't going to continue on as a Lamplighter. Otherwise, there'd be no reason to keep reading, right? I mean if it's a story of "travel to the academy, train, work..." we'd not have read any further. The problem is that Rossamund isn't going to stop pursuing his goal willingly.
Therefore, this book is the transition. Rossamund does achieve his base goal, but things go awry. Without spoiling the ending, we find this is the book where the major transition occurs and Rossamund is finally willing to give up his original goal and move on to what we, the readers, consider the more interesting part of the story. Well done.
By Fantasy Phantom (Near Atlanta, Georgia)
I suppose that the Harry Potter books have taken up so much of the reading time of pre-teen and teenagers (plus tons of others!), that this series has nearly been overlooked, but it most assuredly should NOT be. I bought "Foundling", the first book in the series, on sale for almost nothing when it just happened to catch my sight and looked 'interesting', but it proved to be a lot more then that. Once I was into reading that I just knew that I HAD to locate the follow-up books. And I did. I found "Lamplighter" for retail price and said, "No way!" to the price. So I came to Amazon and got a wonderful price on it. This series has very good guys, very, VERY slimy, sleazy bad guys, horrid Monsters, and sadly, good, kind and protective Monsters who are seriously misunderstood. I'm not going into the actual storyline here because I want YOU to buy the books and READ THEM for yourself. The third book in the series is due our mostly likely within the year, and I'm finding it hard to wait, but just found out that the second draft is at the publishers now, August 2009. If you enjoy reading about people with increasing courage under dire circumstances, very believable nasty creeps, people coming to see the Truth behind the socially accepted lies about something quite serious, and you just plain liked the Potter books, the "Monster Blood Tattoos" is the next series for you. But one warning..... if you're anything like me..... you'll be up later then you at night, because THIS series is an absolute page turner. And you won't want to stop! ENJOY!
By Theodore J. Marynowski (Florida, USA)
What an amazing journey Monster Blood Tattoo is! It seems that all I did for two weeks was read these books. I just could not put them down.
D.M. Cornish is a master. More please!
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