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717 pp.
| Putnam |
April, 2008 |
TradeISBN 978-0-399-24639-5$19.99
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YAMonster Blood Tattoo series.
While training as a lamplighter, Rossamünd confronts danger on monster-ridden roads while facing intrigue and prejudice at home. Still collecting odd friends in unexpected places, the meek orphan slowly but surely asserts his strength and resourcefulness. A stirring climax is well worth the long, leisurely buildup; its power is in Cornish's meticulous world-building of the richly detailed Half-Continent. Appendix. Glos.