Lamplighter

Lamplighter
By D.M. Cornish
Putman’s Sons, 2008. 715 pgs. Young Adult

Rossamund is having a hard time adjusting to Lamplighter life being small. But when Threnody, a lahzarine wit, joins the force, the only girl ever to do so, he finds a friend. While the Lamplighter-Marshal is off on assignment, the Master-of-Clerks assign Rossamund and Threnody to an outpost to the most dangerous region along the Half-Continents highway to keep Rossamund from revealing the secrets he has stumbled across while exploring the Imperial Fortress.

The action picks up in this second installment of the Monster Blood Tattoo series and it doesn’t disappoint. Unfortunately, book three will not be released until May 2010.

KK