D.M. Cornish
Author and illustrator of the Monster-blood Tattoo series.
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Author and illustrator of the Monster-blood Tattoo series.
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Very good YA, but it all seemed too easy and anticlimactic.
I'm a bit on the fence about this one. On the one side, there's great world-building, with appendixes and maps and monsters and wicked-cool occupations with some amazing thought put into it. On the other side, there's about the blandest characters I've ever seen. Potential is definitely there but it...
It's a world something like ours but not and the author is determined to fill it with words, some old some new but overall I came away feeling like the author was trying to hard and having too much fun with words, and the words were driving out the plot. Rossamund Bookchild is now Europe's Factotum...
Rossamünd is a foundling boy, his name is due to a slip of paper found with him. He grows up in an orphanage and gets an opportunity to become a Lamplighter. To do this he has to travel and the travel brings him adventures. This world is similar to ours but there are monsters here and strange peo...
I'm always a huge fan of books that create a new world and go into it in great detail. D.M. Cornish's world is incredibly imaginative and developed--a great addition to the book is the extensive appendix complete with glossary, diagrams, maps and more. The story is jam-packed with adventure; poor Ro...