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    Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West
    Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West
    Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West
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    Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West

    By L. A. Meyer

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    The intrepid Jacky Faber, having once again eluded British authorities, heads west, hoping that no one will recognize her in the wilds of America. There she tricks the tall-tale hero Mike Fink out of his flatboat, equips it as a floating casino-showboat, and heads south to New Orleans, battling murderous bandits, British soldiers, and other scoundrels along the way. Will Jacky's carelessness and impulsive actions ultimately cause her beloved Jaimy to be left in her wake?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 13, 2010
    ISBN9780547505398
    Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West
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    L. A. Meyer

    L. A. Meyer (1942–2014) was the acclaimed writer of the Bloody Jack Adventure series, which follows the exploits of an impetuous heroine who has fought her way up from the squalid streets of London to become an adventurer of the highest order. Mr. Meyer was an art teacher, an illustrator, a designer, a naval officer, and a gallery owner. All of those experiences helped him in the writing of his curious tales of the beloved Jacky Faber. Visit www.jackyfaber.com for more information on the author and his books.  

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    • 5/5
      As always, you must LISTEN to this series on audiobook, narrated by the amazing Katherine Kellgren who does all the voices and accents, British, American, French and everything else, as well as male and female, young and old, ridiculous and serious. The story never lags and the characters include real historical figures.
    • 3/5
      I'm still enjoying this series as light reading, though I'm ready for a little more character development. Jacky takes herself on down the Ohio and Mississippi gathering friends and adventures along the way, one step ahead of her star-crossed lover, as usual. Meyer entertainingly explores the tall tale tradition and eventually gives a shout out to Mark Twain.
    • 4/5
      This was a fun episode in the Bloody Jack series. It could have edited some parts out that dragged and been a tad shorter to keep the action moving. However, I enjoyed the cast of characters, as usual. Jacky is an interesting character who gets herself into a lot of trouble and has a crew of loyal friends who always help her get out of it. But, I also enjoyed the characters from American history she met along the way such as the pirate Laffitte brothers and Mike Fink. They definitely made the story more fun.
    • 5/5
      Yet another fun read from feisty Jacky's life. She's stuck in the backwaters of America and gets herself into (and out of) tight spaces. I loved the historical legend references- Mike Fink. Worth the read, full of laughs and fun.
    • 3/5
      Not my favorite one. Didn't like that it was ok for him to do something but not her but I guess that just makes it historically accurate.
    • 5/5
      Audiobook - When we last left Jacky, she had led her kidnapped classmates to safety and sunk the dread slaver Bloodhound. Upon arriving in Boston harbor, she is immediately captured by British sailors who are after the bounty that is still on her head. The quick thinking of her loyal friends gets her free, but now she must go on the lam, lest she be captured again. Accompanied only by her trusty valet Higgins and her trusting second mate Jim, Jacky disappears (well, as close to "disappearing" as Jacky can ever get) into the wilds of 1806 America. Her plan is to acquire a ship (of course! Where would Jacky be without a ship??) and sail down the Allegheny River to the Ohio River, down the Ohio to the Mississippi River, and down the Mississippi to the great city of New Orleans. She gets there, of course, but not without a million adventures along the way.Ah, Jacky. I fall more and more in love with her in every book. This is definitely the least realistic of the books so far, but who cares??
    • 4/5
      Bloody Jack sets her sights on America in its youth. Traveling down the Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers, Jacky's high-energy adventures also serve as a fun history of the country in the era of Native American wars and slave states. Jacky escapes some unbelievable situations and her Lawson Peabody School for Girls "look" doesn't have much affect on the country bumpkins. Great fun.
    • 5/5
      Ok, so this book had me worried that my love of this series was coming to an end. Aside from the opening scenes, I basically hated the first half of the book. I spent that time wishing I could wring the necks of two of my favorite characters. Thankfully, the second half redeemed the book for me. Said characters realized the errors of their ways and everything turned out as good as it can in Jacky's world.As in every previous book, we are introduced to a charming new cast of characters and I came to care for most of them. I have to admit that Captain Richard Allen (not sure of the spelling as I listened to the audio version) stole a bit of my heart. We also of course run into several old acquaintances both friend and foe.In the end, it was a crazy fun adventure as always.
    • 5/5
      Filled with music, tall tales and laughter, Jacky treks down from New York to New Orleans via America's rivers encountering tall tales and music along the way.
    • 3/5
      Adventures and misadventures of Jacky Faber. Fast paced and fun. She is going down the uncharted waters of the Mississippi River.
    • 3/5
      It's 1806, and Jackie Faber is making her way on a riverboat down the Mississippi River in her continuing efforts to avoid British intelligence and reunite with her one true love, James Emerson Fletcher.
    • 3/5
      You just can't keep Jacky Faber down... she ended the last book by helping her classmates escape from slavers, killing several members of the crew, and surviving a brutal attack by the captain. After their rescue by a British naval ship, the girls were taken back to Boston, and just as Jacky was preparing to walk off the ship, into the arms of her beloved Jaimy, she's pulled back aboard and placed under arrest for piracy. And yet, even with all that going against her, it's not long into this book that she's managed to escape the British crew and set off with the faithful Higgins and friends on a trip down the Mississippi river.It would be more appropriate to describe this book as the undoing of Jaimy Fletcher. He is only a few days behind Jacky, having himself escaped from the same ship she was captured by, but an incident with two highwaymen leaves Jaimy beaten, bloody, and naked. When a young girl named Clementine discovers him and helps him, she believes him to be a "gift from God" and there to marry her. As Jaimy and Clementine follow on Jacky's trail, he continues to be stripped of his proper British upbringing. Jacky prospers and Jaimy... well, Jaimy gets thrown in jail.This was not my favorite of the Jacky Faber series... I had really enjoyed the last book and the serious tone. This one, however, was much lighter, sillier, and full of more coincidences than you could shake a stick at. It's not like most of the Jacky Faber books don't rely on coincidences and Jacky's ability to get in and out of trouble quickly, but there were so many near-death experiences here that I was having a hard time with. Despite that, though, I enjoyed the way that Jaimy had to experience a similar set of hardships as Jacky. His relationship with Clementine troubled me, but then again, Jacky has had many relationships that went beyond friendship, and she's always left them for her betrothed. Even though I didn't enjoy this book as much as the others, it was still a great one to listen to (superb narrator!) and a fun read. I got some American history and was introduced to some great side characters. Now I just need to keep reading!
    • 5/5
      I love this book so much.Seriously, Mississippi Jack is easily my favorite of the six Bloody Jack books currently published. I just reread it as the seventh book, Rapture of the Deep, is due to be released soon, and I wanted to have the story-to-date fresh in mind. I hadn't read it since the first time through about two years ago, because of schoolwork and then graduation and job-hunting and a huge stack of to-be-reads, so this read-through was an absolute blast. So much fun.Like the other books in the series, Mississippi Jack covers a range of genres - it's historical fiction with a heap of adventure, but also plenty of comedy, some action, and romance. This particular novel borrows heavily from Mark Twain's writings and, to me at least, seems to echo Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in several places.The plot follows Jacky after her ordeal on the Bloodhound, as told in the fourth book. Just as she thinks she's to get back to Boston, she's arrested by her Royal Navy saviors in order to take her back to London for the reward. Naturally, she escapes, because that's what Jacky does, and she, Higgins, Katy Deere, and Jim Tanner head out West in an effort to avoid recapture. They travel down the Allegheny, Ohio, and finally the Mississippi rivers, picking up passengers, new members of Faber Shipping, Worldwide, and making friends along the way. They make enemies, too, of course, but Jacky always manages to come out on top.One thing I liked about this book that the others don't have so much is that it also follows Jaimy's story. Usually, the reader doesn't really know what's going on with him until he pops up, but in Mississippi Jack, he's left the Navy (having been there when Jacky got arrested) and has gone to follow her and maybe catch up to her in some town along the way. He gets into adventures of his own (and is nearly killed several times over!), but he also gets lots of character development in the several chapters that follow his p.o.v.Since this is a Bloody Jack novel and these books always turn things up to eleven, it's probably not surprising that Mike Fink gets a role. He's larger than life and absolutely fantastic, and maybe one of the best things of the early parts of the novel.Now, there are problems with this book, I can't deny it, as much as I love it. There's plenty of anachronisms, most of them likely being a result of modern sensibilities getting mapped onto these historical characters. Quite likely, for a reader unfamiliar with the relevant history, these anachronisms would slide right by, but for other people, the fact that Jacky wears underpants in 1806 could be quite problematic (to be honest, whenever mentions of wardrobe come up, I can't help but wonder how familiar Meyer is with clothing from the period - it never seems to quite match what I know from my own reading and historical research). Also, there are several Indian characters in the book who, while treated fairly decently I suppose, could come across as stereotyped. There's a cameo of Sacajawea, for example, that always has me rolling my eyes at how not-subtle it is, though she's never given that name. Jacky and two of her employees/guides (who are Shaw, I believe) also visit a village where there's a meeting of the Five Nations involving Tecumseh that was difficult for me to get past my willing suspension of disbelief. Those scenes themselves were interesting and funny and adventuresome, but the historicity and Jacky's managing to be there were a little much for me to take. But I suppose that's one of the things I like about the books, anyway — that Jacky does pop in and out of actual historic events.Anyway, I love this book so much, even with the problems it has, and it's my favorite of the six I've read so far. But it can't be taken seriously and read as anything like historical fact or a representation of actual historical events or anything like that. I mean, Jacky's skippering a keelboat down the Mississippi River (a boat she conned Mike Fink out of!) and using it to run a three-part show - religious revival, medicine show, and music/dance act. It's fun and funny and Jacky is just as theatrical and melodramatic as ever.
    • 4/5
      Mississippi Jack is volume 4 in the Jacky Faber books, and tells of Jacky's misadventures with a motley (and devoted!) crew along the American frontier. Definitely getting somewhat darker at times, and some of the scrapes she gets herself in (in love and war) are serious reading.
    • 5/5
      Well.. this better not be the last book. I always want more with these books (even if they are 600 pages of adventure, humor and even romance...).It's good to finally see somewhat of a happy ending, but I'm still not satisfied if this is the end of the series. If you haven't read these books yet... you should. :)
    • 5/5
      Jack is back! Ms. Faber is here once again in a totally new world. She's run to the Mississippi River to hide, but winds up starting her own little river transportation company. What she doesn't know is that Jamie is close behind, rushing to get back to her. Another great book in the series!!! I love all of these books and encouage everyone to read them. They're full of mishief, fun, suspence, romance, and adventure-something for the type of reader who wants everything in one book. If you haven't started the series yet, do!
    • 3/5
      "Mississippi Jack" is the 5th installment in L.A. Meyer's "Bloody Jack" series and is a relatively decent novel; it's fast- and well-paced and generally well-written, with interesting packets of history thrown in. The heroine Jacky is well-defined and entertaining, and - thank God - not perfect like too many protagonists these days.However, this book is dramatic - which would normally be fine, but in this case, it's often dramatic to the point of unbelievability. And it's also rather repetitive, with constant scenes of men of all sorts intent on making Jacky lose her precious virginity - not to mention the constant let's-be-wowed-by-Jacky and her friends'-neverending-stunning-escapes-from-those-nasty- people.So overall, I gave it three stars - an average rating. It's a charming book overall, but it does have a few gaping flaws.
    • 5/5
      Jacky's adventures continue to get better and better. Never a dull moment when the notorious Bloody Jack is around. From stealing a river boat to ending up in the arms of another dashing military man to tar and feathers, it amazing the girl ends up in one piece at the end of the day. Jacky also manages to add to her on going repertoire of names, whether it's from mates, Indians, or lovers. Don't miss this exciting tale into the further trouble makings of Bloody Jack!
    • 4/5
      This is the fifth book in the Bloody Jack Adventures. (After: Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy, Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady (Bloody Jack Adventures), Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber (Bloody Jack Adventures), and In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber (Bloody Jack Adventures)) When we last left Jacky she was steps away from being reunited with Jaimy- and then she was about to be arrested. Somehow, Jacky always seems to land on her feet though, so don't be worried. Before long, and with the help of a few friends, she's escaped and is now captain of a riverboat. Despite many obstacles (and really you have to feel bad for the poor guy) Jaimy is always just a little bit behind her. A couple of new characters appear, including a card shark, a Reverend, Native Americans, slaves, and British soldiers- all of whom seem to eventually surrender to Jacky's charms. But along with these new characters come a couple of old villains. Will Jacky manage to evade them? Will she eventually be reunited with Jaimy? You'll have to read to find out!
    • 5/5
      Jacky's great adventures continue. She is still saucy, funny, and smart as a whip. I LOVE this series!
    • 4/5
      Mr. Meyer has done it again. These books are all fun from beginning to end.

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