Fun Series
Aug. 7th, 2012 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillI have been getting the Jacky Faber books (books by Louis A. Meyer about a girl / young woman named Mary Faber and nicknamed Jacky: the first one is called "Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy (Bloody Jack Adventures)") from my local library as e-books. They're not my usual thing--they're YA (young adult, which is a fancy way of saying "for teens") books, and they're not science fiction or fantasy... they're yarns about the adventures of Jacky Faber, who disguises herself as a boy and runs away to sea around the end of the Napoleonic Wars to get enough to eat and things get more improbable from there.
But they sure are fun! I just finished book 4, in which Jacky, and her classmates at the Lawson Peabody School for Girls, are kidnapped by villains intending to sell them to North African sheiks. It's unabashed melodrama and simultaneously tongue-in-cheek, alternately swashbuckling and compassionate and strangely practical.
I just checked out book 5. My unscheduled vacation will be going on a little longer as I'm going to visit Jacky Faber for a few more days.
But they sure are fun! I just finished book 4, in which Jacky, and her classmates at the Lawson Peabody School for Girls, are kidnapped by villains intending to sell them to North African sheiks. It's unabashed melodrama and simultaneously tongue-in-cheek, alternately swashbuckling and compassionate and strangely practical.
I just checked out book 5. My unscheduled vacation will be going on a little longer as I'm going to visit Jacky Faber for a few more days.
