description: Set in the world of the Half-Continent—a land of tri-corner hats and flintlock pistols—the Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy is a world of predatory monsters, chemical potions and surgically altered people.Rossamünd Bookchild is finally becoming a lamplighter. Sworn into the Emperor’s service, his duty is to light the lamps along the Emperor’s highways, and protect all travellers from the ferocious bogles that live in the wild. But he’s found it no easier to fit in with the lamplighters than he ever has—always too small and too meek, his loneliness continues no matter how hard he tries to succeed. But when a haughty young girl, a member of a suspiciously-regarded society of all-women teratologists is forced upon the lamplighters for training, Rossamünd might no longer be the most despised soul around.Complete with appendices, maps, illustrations, and a glossary, Monster Blood Tattoo immerses readers in an entirely original fantasy world with its own language and lore.
language: English
title: Lamplighter: Monster Blood Tattoo: Book 2
titlecomplete: Lamplighter: Monster Blood Tattoo: Book 2
genres: Adventure, Fantasy, High Fantasy, Teen, Young Adult Fantasy, Steampunk, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 4505
series: Monster Blood Tattoo
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Children's Book Council of Australia Award
category: Book of the Year - Older Readers, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Aurealis Award
category: Young Adult Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Andre Norton Award
publisher: Listening Library