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This is the first book in The Monster Blood Tattoo Series that D M Cornish wrote and illustrated. The book was published by Omnibus Books and was first published in 2006 and reprinted in 2007. And the ISBN is 978 1 86291 632 6.

Also the main character in the story is an orphaned boy by the name of Rosamund Bookchild who has good manners and is polite when he speaks though he often get teased about his name as it is so different. And I recently discovered that his name can be either for a male or a female and that difference between the two names is in the spelling as the female version is spelt Rosamunde.

Anyway, as Rosamund is one of the older boys at the ophanage he soon gets picked to be trained up for a lamplighter which he didn’t know much about at the time. But as he speaks very politely, he is well liked by most of the characters mentioned that works at the orphanage like Fransitart, Verline, and Craumpalin.

Rosamund then discovers that he is expected to get to the place that trains lamplighters by himself. But unfortunately he gets on the wrong boat at the start of his journey and I also think that later in the story that he starts to realize that although he meets good and kind people like Fouracres and a woman named Europe who helps him get to his destination, there are also people like Poundinch that later on realizes he shouldn’t trust so easily.

As Poundinch tricks him, and Rosamund discovers that he had been tricked after seeing the boat that he should have been on.

This story was quite enjoyable as it was about helping people who need help as when Europe needed help Rosamund didn’t just made her treacle but he also took her to a place where she recovered well enough to travel. Rosamund then discovers that Europe really wanted him to replace her now deceased assistant and as he didn’t really know what to say to her about it he didn’t say anything, but it all turned out well for him in the end.