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|pages=448
|publisher=David Fickling Books
|date=1 Feb February 2007
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Rossamund Bookchild, an orphaned boy saddled with a girl's name, leaves Madam Opera's Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls to begin his career as a lamplighter of the Half Continent. The humans of the Half Continent are engaged in a permanent war against the monsters of the wilds - the bogles, the shrewds, the grinnlings. And out alone in the world for the very first time, Rossamund encounters more than a few of them on his journey to begin his new - and dangerous - career. He also meets his first lahzar - a fighter of monsters - and sees his first monster-blood tattoo, the mark of a kill.
Thanks to the publisher, David Fickling, for sending the book.
Children who prefer gory stories told in a more straightforward, less geeky way will enjoy Darren Shan's [[Demonata series]]. Those who enjoy fantasy worlds generally might like Jason Hightman's [[Samurai]] and those who enjoy moral dilemmas cloaked in fantasy should read Katherine Langrish's [[Troll series]]. You might enjoy [[Prisoner of Ice and Snow by Ruth Lauren]].
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