From the pre-industrial English feel to the sprawling setting and backstory, this book feels every bit as substantial as its heft implies. His drawings endow both humans and monsters with personality, and detailed maps plus a 16-month calendar year add to readers' sense that this milieu has existed for centuries. Its roots were planted in a series of illustrated notebooks the author began while attending art school.

Rossamünd's action-packed road story serves chiefly to build and populate Cornish's remarkable new world, the Half-Continent. Registered office: 20 Vauxhall Bridge Rd, London,SW1V 2SA, UK. When a human kills a monster, he gets a 'monster-blood tattoo,' made from the beast's blood and bearing its likeness. Cornish (Author) 37 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover from 31.58 4 Used from 31.58 Paperback 17.23 3 New from 14.44 Language English Publisher David Fickling Books Publication date JanuDimensions 5.67 x 2.32 x 8. (The boy identifies a leerĪs a tracker of men and monsters the glossary offers further chilling details.) En route to his new job, he is misled into boarding a doomed boat, and winds up alone in a world where humans and monsters wage constant war. Monster Blood Tattoo: Factotum: Book Three Hardcover Januby D. Hey all you Monster-Blood Tattoo/The Foundlings Tale fans Are you dying to discuss the wonderful world of the Half-Continent Do you look over your. a leer!') and hires Rossamünd as a 'lamplighter' for the Emperor. One day a stranger with odd eyes arrives ('What should have been white was blood red, and his irises were the palest, most piercing blue. Rossamünd Bookchild ('a boy with a girl's name'), is an orphan living at Madam Opera's Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls, where instructors groom the orphans to serve in the Boschenberg Navy and other agencies. Highly ambitious, Cornish's fantasy debut boasts a glossary/appendix alone that is more than 100 pages long-and it makes for nearly as fascinating reading as the story itself.

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