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Monster Blood Tattoo: Foundling (Foundling Trilogy) (Hardcover)

by D.M. Cornish (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Publisher: David Fickling Books (1 Feb 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 038561148X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385611480
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.4 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 554,802 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Rossamund has always dreamed of a career in the Navy, fighting tentacled monsters and rescuing damsels from hook-handed pirates. But fate has chosen him for a different path. He is being sent to train as a Lamplighter - to bring light to the inland roads of the Half-Continent, to shine the way for travellers through lands peopled by outcasts, monsters and worse. But for Rossamund to begin his education, he must first undertake a journey of his own: to the great city of High Vesting. Such a road is not for the faint of heart. Only monster-hunters, leers and the most desperate of brigands dare travel the inland ways unguarded. And all Rossamund carries with him is a battered almanac and a pocketful of cheap potions. It is unlikely to be enough. Stunning in scope and rich in detail, alive with memorable heroes and villains and brimming with new and original science and magics, D.M. Cornish's tale of scolds, scourges, smugglers and shrewds will thrill and captivate, and leave the reader desperate for more.


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BEWARE! Bogles, Revers, Grinnlings and Nickers - all can kill a human quicker than thought!
The vast lands of the Half-Continent bear the scars of centuries of conflict between monsters and men. Only the hardiest souls now travel the inland ways: merchants, imperial messengers and - bravest of all - the monster hunters. To be a hunter takes great cunning and extraordinary skill, for the creatures are as deadly as they are varied.
Not that Rossamund Bookchild should worry. The orhpaned boy with the girl's name lives safe behind the walls of Madam Opera's Estimable Society for Foundlings. Safe, at least, until the day he is recruited into the service of the Empire by a strange man with peculiar blood-red eyes. This is his story.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Fun kick-off to new trilogy, 12 Jun 2007
By David Paul Jebb "trainboydave" (Madrid, Spain) - See all my reviews
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I saw some of the illustrations for D.M. Cornish's new book, The Foundling, and was intrigued by the world he had created, so I bought a copy. It's the story of Rossamünd, a boy with a girl's name. He is a foundling, or orphan, who is given a job as a lamplighter and must make his way to a new city to take up his position. However, the Half-Continent, where he lives, is a place of monsters and bogles ready to tear any human apart as soon as he or she steps outside the safety of their cities.

The Foundling is rather like what Dickens would have written had he been a fantasy writer in the 21st century. There is some Victorian steampunk charm mixed in with menace and grit. It is a mixture of the historically familiar and the imaginatively fantastic.

D.M. Cornish has created the world of the Half-Continent completely from his imagination- people, countries, cities, mosters, terminology, vocabulary, and usually these are things I love in my fantasy. This is why I love Dune by Frank Herbert and The Keltiad by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (despite the latter's blatant use of Mary Sue and of fiction as wish-fulfillment). However, here, I needed to look at the glossary once too often to remind myself what was going on. This was definitely enjoyable, but is too idiosyncratic at first glance. This is a world for people planning on becoming die-hard Rossamünd fans.

As with a lot of new fiction aimed at younger audiences, I feel that the marketing is trying to promote it as the new Harry Potter. This is nothing like J.K. Rowling's series, but perhaps the publishing house, and not the author, is trying the catch onto the "next best thing", the next mania with everyone using invented words that enter into everyday speech.

The Foundling is interesting and fun, but I will be waiting for the next volume, Lamplighter, to come out in paperback.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Read, 22 Feb 2007
By G. Brocklebank "Grayman1990" (Morcambe UK) - See all my reviews
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A brilliant first book by D.M Cornish a great fantasy story set in "the half continent" against a backdrop of a contant raging battle between monsters and men, brilliant use of imaginative characters and the world itself, with illistrations included also.
A brilliant read
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