Doubtful Guest, The Boggart, Monster Blood Tattoo

[The 11th UrRu]

Any info you come across in here please, its been a year since the intital announement. I will say that the Monster Blood Tattoo series looks interesting, kind of Harry Potter like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Blood_Tattoo

 

[The 11th UrRu]

Went out to the book store, Ill be reading MBT soon, Ill post a review after...

 

[The 11th UrRu]

1/4 of the way through MBT, Ive got to say Im very impressed thus far. Think Oliver Twist meets Harry Potter meets Series of Unfortunate Events... should finish up tommorow...

 

[The 11th UrRu]

All 3 Listed on IMDB

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959385/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959292/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959380/

 

[The 11th UrRu]

Re:

1/2 way through, getting strange, its beginning to seperate itself from others in the genre now... beginning to think that it might be more like a Tim Burton type movie than anything else...

 

[The 11th UrRu]

Finished

Finished Monster Blood Tattoo: Foundling ... it was a good read. The story centers around Rossamund, a boy with a girls name whos having a tough time at his orphange (they call orphans "foundlings" in the book, hence the book title). His story leads him on an adventure into a very Henson like world filled with oddities, monsters, colourful characters and villans. I think lots of people here would like this.

Well crafted story, a little bizarre at times, but I can definatly see the company doing a good job of this, its right down their alley. The 2nd book in the trilogy, called "LampLighter", is due out this May...

 

[RealMissPiggy]

Ill have to check this out! Thanks sounds very entertaining

 

[muppetmania1980]

who is the authoer of the series? i love stuff like that and i would love to read it for my self and then maybe give you my take and views on the story. let me know something soon.....thanx

 

[The 11th UrRu]

Lamplighter: Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 2

Looks like the 2nd installment of the work in progress Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy had gotten fantastic reviews since its recent release, lots of love for the book on Amazon.com.

Ill be picking it up over the next couple weeks and will post a review.

This from Feb 2008 on the authors site:

"And, Master Oddwyn, in actual answer to your question, the Jim Henson Company currently has the option to make MBT into films: 2 movies from the 3 currently planned books - I think they feel there is not enough in Book 1 to warrant one entire film"