I read Foundling (book 1 in the Monster Blood Tattoo series) because book 2 was on the short list for a Cybil. We tried to listen to book 2 on audio without having read book 1 and realized very quickly that this was a bad idea. There are a lot of made up words and a lot of words being used in ways that didn’t make sense. So, we took the audio back to the library and I reserved book 1 in print.
And it wasn’t half bad. Much easier to follow the made up words, monster types, etc… in print. The little glossary and such helped a good bit as well. Now I’ve received book 2 and we’ll figure out what happens to poor Rossamund.