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This is an amazing continuation of an incredible story. While it is a fiction novel, it has a perfect blend of history, espionage, romance, adventure; everything that makes a good story, plus some great swashbuckling action. This novel follows one Mary "Jacky" Faber, a girl existing in the early nineteenth century who is determined to live her life as she likes it. Only on her way to achieving freedom, she encounters pirates, vagabonds, the British Intelligence, the Royal Navy, French spies, slave runners, and, yes, some rather dashing men. There are some very clever and humorous twists in the tale, as well as some entertaining parallels to other written works in English history.
I would highly recommend this book, or really all of the books in this series, to anyone who has a taste for the Napoleonic period, piracy, girl power, espionage, or high-spirited adventure.
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Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and the Lily of the West (Bloody Jack Adventures) by L A Meyer
Zoe Lehr, September 22, 2011
This is an amazing continuation of an incredible story. While it is a fiction novel, it has a perfect blend of history, espionage, romance, adventure; everything that makes a good story, plus some great swashbuckling action. This novel follows one Mary "Jacky" Faber, a girl existing in the early nineteenth century who is determined to live her life as she likes it. Only on her way to achieving freedom, she encounters pirates, vagabonds, the British Intelligence, the Royal Navy, French spies, slave runners, and, yes, some rather dashing men. There are some very clever and humorous twists in the tale, as well as some entertaining parallels to other written works in English history.I would highly recommend this book, or really all of the books in this series, to anyone who has a taste for the Napoleonic period, piracy, girl power, espionage, or high-spirited adventure.