Monster Blood Tattoo
Foundling (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 1)
Monster Blood Tattoo
D. M. Cornish
Meet Rossamünd?a foundling, a boy with a girl?s name who is about to begin a dangerous life in the service of the Emperor of the Half-Continent. What starts as a simple journey becomes a dangerous and complicated set of battles and decisions. Humans, monsters, unearthly creatures . . . who among these can Rossamünd trust? D. M. Cornish has created an entirely original world, grounded in his own deft, classically influenced illustrations. Foundling is a magic-laced, Dickensian adventure that will transport the reader.

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Adventure
  • Fantasy

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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In the beginning of Monster Blood Tattoo, by D. 
M. Cornish, a foundling boy who has a girl's 
name, Rossamünd, is selected to be a lamplighter, 
a special soldier who lights and dowses lamps in 
the hours that monsters and thieves are on the 
prowl, in a town called High Vesting. However, 
when Rossamünd boards what he believes to be the 
ship that will take him to High Vesting, he 
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