Monster Blood Tattoo Series by D.M. Cornish

4.07 · 55 ratings
  • Foundling (Monster Blood Tattoo #1)
    #1

    Foundling (Monster Blood Tattoo #1)

    D.M. Cornish

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2006

    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. Foundling begins the journey of Rossamund, a boy with a girl’s name, who is just about to begin a dangerous life in the service of the Emperor. What starts as a simple journey is threatened by encounters with monsters—and people, who may be worse... more

  • Lamplighter (Monster Blood Tattoo #2)
    #2

    Lamplighter (Monster Blood Tattoo #2)

    D.M. Cornish

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2007

    The eagerly awaited second book of the critically acclaimed trilogy! Orphan Rossamund Bookchild has been sworn into the Emperor's service his duty is to light the lamps along the Emperor's highways and protect travelers from the ferocious bogles that live in the wild. But he's found it no easier to fit in with the lamplighters than he did with the foundlings always too small and too meek and his loneliness continues no matter how hard he tries to succeed... more

  • Factotum (Monster Blood Tattoo #3)
    #3

    Factotum (Monster Blood Tattoo #3)

    D.M. Cornish

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2009

    Rossamund Bookchild stands accused of not truly being a human at all, but of being a monster. Even the protection of Europe, the Branden Rose-the most feared and renowned monster-hunter in all the Half-Continent-might not be enough to save him. Powerful forces move against them both, intent on capturing Rossamund- whose existence some believe may hold the secret to perpetual youth.

  • Tales from the Half-Continent (Monster Blood Tattoo #3.5)
    #3.5

    Tales from the Half-Continent (Monster Blood Tattoo #3.5)

    D.M. Cornish

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2014

    Bunting Faukes has a debt and no way to repay it—times are tough for grave robbers. But a way out is presented in the person of Atticus Wells, a sleuth with strange eyes that see into everything.Virtue Bland is alone in the world. Packed off to Brandenbrass to serve the household of her late father’s employer, she has only her old pa’s olfactologue to remember him by. But with it she can smell monsters.The Corsers’ Hinge and The Fuller and the Bogle are two new stories from the Half-Continent.

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