![]() ![]() ![]() (The boy identifies a leerĪs a tracker of men and monsters the glossary offers further chilling details.) En route to his new job, he is misled into boarding a doomed boat, and winds up alone in a world where humans and monsters wage constant war. a leer!") and hires Rossamünd as a "lamplighter" for the Emperor. ![]() One day a stranger with odd eyes arrives ("What should have been white was blood red, and his irises were the palest, most piercing blue. Rossamünd Bookchild ("a boy with a girl's name"), is an orphan living at Madam Opera's Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls, where instructors groom the orphans to serve in the Boschenberg Navy and other agencies. Highly ambitious, Cornish's fantasy debut boasts a glossary/appendix alone that is more than 100 pages long-and it makes for nearly as fascinating reading as the story itself. ![]()
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