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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

A Life of Order's.


Lamplighter, book Two of the Monster Blood Tattoo Trilogy by D.M.Cornish.

"A rever-man below us, sir! A rever-man in the tunnels underneath!"


Rossamund Bookchild is finally becoming a Lamplighter. He is becoming one of those hardy men sworn to light the lamps of the empire and protect travellers from ravenous bogles from the wild.

But Rossamund is still finding it hard to fit in, he has a girls name and he is small for his age and as a consequence is good at nothing but the strange chemistry of his world. This of course means he is the constant butt of jokes from his fellow trainees, none of them are his friends and the teachers yell at him often. On top of it all, learning how to light lamps is boring, not at all the adventurous life he was promised.

Rossamund is lonely......

....... And then Threnody arrives in a most dramatic fashion....

Lamplighter's world is unique, it is a world loosely based on 18th century England where the mechanical has been replaced by bio-mechanics and monsters are born from the mud. Although not as ordered as the first book, lamplighter contains a lot more detail of the world and it's people (it's more interesting). A good page turner, enjoy.