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My husband is really "into" this series of books by LA Meyer. He's enjoying them all. He bought the first book at a discount store and then got "hooked" into the series. The main character is former "street urchin" from the streets of London in about the early 1800's, who signed on to a British man-of-war as a ship's boy. Nobody knew she was a female until towards the end of volume 1 of this series. This book is Volume 4 of 11 in this series. As my husband reads this series, he tells me "the latest" of the adventures of Jacky. The Bloodhound is a slaver; Jacky goes aboard, thinking she and some girls schoolmates, who are students at the Boston Peabody School for Young Girls, thinking they are going on a field trip to the Boston Harbor Islands. The vile Mr Dobbs, the maintenance guy at the school, gives some kind of mild poison, rendering the adults who were going to chaperone the trip ill, but unharmed, but unable to make the field trip with the girls. The girls realize they are in trouble when the gun is pointed at Jacky's head, as they are leaving the pier in a launch. This entire series is really engaging and my husband is "hooked". Jacky is a quick-learner of every task presented to her. She has no fear of heights; aboard the Dolphin, she had no hesitation to going aloft and handling sails. She has learned several instruments from various people who make her acquaintance - fiddle, penny-whistle, concertina. Advertising rates the intended readers' age to adolescent, but it is equally engaging for a middle-aged retired USNavy sailor, who shares the stories with me, also a USNavy veteran. I am equally engaged with stories of this young woman as he reads the stories. This is an era where the actions she has done are "not for ladies." But, then, even in the middle-late 20th century, when I served, women in military service were still a small percentage of those serving in military uniform.Read full review
Set sail yet again with Jacky Faber, this book is stunning and sure to make you laugh and cry at points in the book. Jacky and the girls from their school in Boston get kidnaped and put onto a slaver (slave ship). The girls band together to find a way to excape...if they do or not you will just have to find out!! All in all its a great read and I cant wait to get my hands on the next book in the series. :)
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