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    Foundling: Monster Blood Tattoo
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    Foundling: Monster Blood Tattoo

    Written by D. M. Cornish

    Narrated by Humphrey Bower

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    About this audiobook

    Growing up at Madam Opera's Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls, Rossamünd Bookchild-a boy with an unfortunate name-has led a life sheltered from the dangers of the world. But this all changes the day the man with the strange red-and-pale-blue eyes recruits him into the service of the Emperor. Rossamünd has been drafted into the ranks of the Half-Continent's "lamplighters"-soldiers who protect the empire's roads from all evil.

    Now Rossamünd must begin the journey of his life, traveling the Half-Continent, a world full of people who can be as predatory as any monster he can imagine. And when he falls in with the mysterious and talented Europe, who can shoot electricity out of her body and call lightning down from the sky, he learns that some people can truly be lethal....
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 10, 2007
    ISBN9780739355800
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    • 4/5
      This one made me laugh almost (but not quite) as much as Friday's Child. Another grand romp through Regency England, this time with even more amusing characters than some of the other Heyer novels I've read.
    • 3/5
      Wherein the ingenue is a duke.
    • 5/5
      When the young Duke of Sale finally decides that he want to control his own life rather than being organised by his family and servants, he siezes an opportunity for adventure and gets mixed up with the Foundling of the title. Belinda is a startlingly beautiful women with the mental capacity of a goldfish. While fully aware of her beauty, Sale doesn't fall for her. Keeping her out of trouble and dealing with the people who either fall in love with her or try to use her for their own ends, leads him into many entertaining situations and helps him to mature and to find his own strengths. He also meets up with Tom, a young lad running away from home. Sale emphasises with the young man who is also being kept on too tight a leash, but Tom is far wilder than Sale and lands him in even more scrapes.The real strength of this book lies in the characters. A wide variety of personalities, each well drawn and each internally consistent. A real pleasure to read.
    • 4/5
      Only very mildly a romance; a bit improbable but the Duke of Sale is engagingly described and Heyer creates a light-hearted adventure.
    • 4/5
      Fun Heyer. I like Gilly quite a lot, and Harriet blooms a bit too. My only objection is that the title is The Foundling, because Belinda (the foundling) is pretty much a cipher (she's too dumb to be a character) - though I admit she's the catalyst for a great deal of this story. Gideon is excellent - wish he'd gotten his own story. And Uncle Lionel is an idiot of quite another type - so certain he's acting for the best, at all times. It's great to watch Gilly grow up - find his own abilities and learn to trust himself. This one is definitely worth rereading, in a while.
    • 3/5
      Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware, the young Duke of Sale, had grown tired of being surrounded by his army of devoted and overprotective servants, his overbearing guardian uncle, and his well-meaning but stifling friends and family. He'd grown tired in fact, of being the Duke of Sale, and longed to experience life as "Mr. Dash, of Nowhere in Particular." When opportunity presented itself, in the form of a young cousin in trouble, Gilly set out on an adventure, and soon found himself entangled with an impetuous young runaway, a beautiful but very naive "foundling," and a kidnapping villain of great sensibility...Despite its similarity (in parts) to some of Heyer's other novels - Sprig Muslin and Charity Girl in particular - The Foundling provided a quick, entertaining read, with a gentle charm of its own. Gilly may have been somewhat too mild, but his rebellion against the strictures placed upon him, and his gradual transformation from boy to man, made for an engaging coming-of-age tale. His romance with Lady Harriet was somewhat less appealing, and had the feel of an afterthought. One has to wonder, moreover, at the similar names that Heyer gives all these trustworthy "older" female friends, who always stand ready to assist her heroes with the young runaways they have undertaken to help: Lady Harriet, Lady Hester, and Henrietta... An unconscious acknowledgment on the author's part that they are essentially all the same character? One has to wonder...
    • 4/5
      After reading the first chapter of this book, I had low expectations for the rest. Not surprising, since this is not my usual genre. I was pleasantly surprised, however. The characters, though unrealistic, were engaging and the plot exciting enough to hold the reader. If this is a good example of regency romance, I believe I will be reading more of this genre in the future.
    • 3/5
      Enjoyable! The young Duke of Sale kicks over the traces and vanishes from the solicitous care of his Uncle and retainers. Some of Ms Heyer's themes of youth, coming of age, the problems of dealing with your relations and love are handled better in some of her other books (this one gets a bit long and complicated at the end) but it is still an enjoyable read. Interesting to see a bullying tutor called Snape! Wonder if JKR is a Heyer fan!
    • 4/5
      Favorite, comedy of manners, British, Regency, disguise, duke, uncle, kidnapping, orphan, beauty
    • 4/5
      The conservatism of Heyer's social arrangements and characterizations aside (nobility is idolized, and every person ends up in the situation most appropriate to their social circumstances of birth), this was highly enjoyable, with some truly funny situations. I really enjoyed Gilly's kindness and growth as a character, and the warmth and caring of all the principal characters. One of my favorite Heyers.
    • 5/5
      Charming story about a Duke who feels hedged in by servants and friends, and wishes to strike out on his own.
    • 3/5
      Gilly was born an incredibly rich duke. Far from trying to get his inheritance, his family did everything in its power to ensure that the sickly little boy would grow to manhood. However, now that Gilly's nearly of-age, their coddling and controlling is less welcome. Being pushed into an engagement with an old friend is the last straw, and Gilly takes an opportunity to flee his hangers-on and pretend to be just a gentleman. While doing so he rescues a fair but dimwitted maiden, takes on the charge of an adventurous boy, thumps villains on their heads, gets kidnapped, burns down a house, and all in all leads a very enterprising life indeed.

      I liked this book a great deal. It's largely free of Heyer's love of Regency-era slang, and the main character is far from her usual tall-saturnine-sardonic-controlling hero. The only issue I had was that the love between Gilly and the woman he ends up marrying seems to come out of nowhere. It's a regency romance, Heyer, you've got to put *some* effort into the romance part, no matter how meticulously researched the "regency" part is.
    • 5/5
      The Duke of Sale hankers to be an ordinary person, and is pitched into adventure by his cousin's amorous exploits. How he succeeds and extricates himself from various problems provides a fast-moving and exciting - albeit unlikely - story, with all the ends neatly tied in an excellent conclusion. Very enjoyable.
    • 4/5
      A charming Regency. Gilly was a nice change from the masterful type hero It made this book feel fresh. There wasn't much of romance in this book; it was more a comedy of manners and characters. Heyer's true genius is in the characters -- many of them unique and different.
    • 5/5
      If Heyer's books are all even half this good, I'm in for a rare old treat as I read my way through the library shelves. This is more a coming of age tale, combined with a comedy of errors than it is a romance. Gilly is our hero (although he's far more Buttons than he is Prince Charming), and while he is Duke of Sale, he is cossetted, protected and smothered by his servants and his uncle such that he feels completely useless and unable to assert himself. To test his wings, he decides to head off on his own (actually to solve cousin Matthew's problem of breach of trust and a blackmailer). All in all he manages tolerably well, coping with the trials of a blackmailer, a stagecoach, an inn and acquiring a small ruffian (who has also run away from his overprotective father and an overbearing tutor) along the way. However at that point it all starts to go a little less swimmingly. Gilly also acquires the beautiful but empty headed Belinda (the foundling of the title) and gets himself into a far more dangerous scrape with a top notch rogue. All the while his servants and family are in uproar, trying to find him and thinking this all very out of character. It turns out to be the making of him.This is such great fun. The story bowls along merrily, and there is an air of pantomime about this (that's not meant to be derogatory). Gilly is more Buttons than Charming, Gideon would be Charming (although he doesn't get the girl). For rogues we have Liversedge (boo) a highly personable rogue, but we also have Uncle Lionel, who could certainly be viewed as trying to suppress Gilly and keep him in the comfortable box of boy, not man. I'm usually quite sparing with my stars, but this gets 5. It manages to be great fun and not leave you feeling that it's full of plot holes or daft writing.
    • 3/5
      “The Foundling” is not the most apt title for this work, as the foundling character and her storyline is essentially a subplot. The main focus is on a 24-year-old duke and his need to break away from his relatives and servants who treat him like a sickly child – something he *used* to be.Belinda – the foundling herself – may not be the story’s focal point but she is an entertaining character. She’d be classed as a “dumb blonde” in today’s society. In this tale she is excessively beautiful yet devoid of intelligence. This makes for some superb humorous moments.Tom is also amusing with his endless schemes and getting into scrapes. In fact, all characters are well-defined and humorous to varying degrees, and it’s the comedy aspects that appealed to me the most.The plot itself was okay, if a little disjointed, but when the witty dialogue exchanges are not apparent the reader is often faced with lengthy narrative passages that are slow paced and mundane.In short, the parts are better than the whole.
    • 4/5
      Lots of fun in this one as Gilly, Duke of Sale, discovering that one of his cousins is being blackmailed and determined to escape from the oppressive care of his guardian and his servants, sets out on an adventure. Things don't go as planned, and Gilly ends up caring for the beautiful Belinda, the foundling of the title and Tom, a schoolboy on the run from his annoying tutor.
    • 3/5
      Public service announcement for all goodreads friends and followers: I promise that my latest Heyer binge is almost at an end. Be patient: soon I'll be back to reading random crap I find on the street.

      ...So anyway, this book is a coming-of-age story, not a romance. It's lovely to read about Gilly coming into his own (even if there is a little bit of a children's book quality to it), and Liversedge is a pretty awesome/lovable villain. Belinda and Tom were a bit tiresome, so I can't really go above 3.5 stars here. But Gilly and Harriet: the sweetest! Gilly and Gideon: also the sweetest! I'm pretty sure they all lived happily ever after.
    • 4/5
      The Foundling by Georgette Heyer is less of a historical romance and much more of a comedy of errors with foundlings, runaway schoolboys, an incognito duke, kidnappers and assorted ruffians and more that a few concerned relatives charging about. The Duke of Sale has been cosseted and looked after by servants and family for his whole life. He is now coming into his majority and instead of handing the reins to him, everyone still seems to feel the need to protect him. His future wife has been picked out for him, and even though he has always been very fond of Harriet, he doesn’t feel great love for her. Breaking free of his traces, the duke goes off as a plain Mr. Rufford, on a quest to help a cousin out of a fix. Amid much mayhem and confusion, the duke learns not only to assert himself but that there are times when it is advantageous to be the Duke of Sale and to have a loving family to surround him. Most importantly of all, he and Harriet discover that love is blossoming between them and that they are meant to be together.Georgette Heyer fills this book with some great characters that were a lot of fun to read about. From school boy Tom who finds trouble wherever he goes, to the totally empty-headed Belinda, even the villain of the piece, Mr. Liversedge was an interesting, full drawn rogue. The relationship between the duke and his betrothed was mature, believable and, I found, quite heart warming.A coming-of-age story that is full of humor and adventure, Georgette Heyer has another winner with The Foundling.
    • 4/5
      Do you like historical fiction? Romantic comedy? Historical romantic comedic fiction? A wee bit of slapstick with your costume drama?Then mayhaps you should give Georgette Heyer a read.Because DUDE, she has got it going on! In spades!Incidentally, what does that mean? Got it in spades? Is it a card reference?Ahem. Anyway. Sorry.So, The Foundling. By Georgette Heyer. Hilarious. So, so, so good. Perhaps my most favorite one yet.The Foundling features Gilly. Gilly is the Seventh Duke of Sale. And he is extremely young. Like, 24 years young. Gilly?s family are, rather, uh, well overprotective doesn?t seem strong enough. They are obsessed with his safety, his delicacy, his health, mind, weight, heart, hair, and toenails. Well, not THAT obsessed, but you get the idea. They are extremely CONCERNED about Gilly.One day, Gilly decides he has had enough. He is a MAN, dangnabit, and by God, he is going to prove it!So he sets out, incognito, on a journey through the countryside. On this journey he meets an intriguing cast of characters including a runaway school boy, a beautiful orphan and an extremely?oh?interesting villain. One review I read calls this villain ?one of literature?s most appealing and well-spoken comic villains? (doesn?t that alone make you want to read it?? I mean, come on! Well-spoken AND comic? Be still my wee heart!). Gilly plunges into intrigue after intrigue, one true to Heyer mishap after the other and the result is delightful.Tis the time of year to give, so give Heyer a chance. Read her and weep with laughter. Snort with glee. And bask in the glow that is a contented read. This is the perfect time to curl up on the couch with your favorite blanket and a nice hot mug of tea and good ole Georgette. Heyer is teh awesome.