Lamplighter (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 2)
by:
D.M. Cornish (author)
Rossamünd Bookchild is finally becoming a lamplighter. Sworn into the Emperor's service, his duty is to light the lamps along the Emperor's highways, and protect all 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...
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Rossamünd Bookchild is finally becoming a lamplighter. Sworn into the Emperor's service, his duty is to light the lamps along the Emperor's highways, and protect all 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 ever has - always too small and too meek, 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 is forced upon the lamplighters for training, Rossamünd might no longer be the most despised soul around.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780399246395 (0399246398)
ASIN: 0399246398
Publish date: 2008-05-01
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Pages no: 736
Edition language: English
The second in the (IMO, unfortunately named) Monster Blood Tattoo series. Cornish’s amazing world-building continues, as well as Rossamund’s development. I was astonished by some of the revelations in this book–I had some theories at the end of the first book which…did not turn out to be the case–an...
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