Was that a deliberate reference to The Avengers or did everyone involved in the book somehow miss that? I was very confused by the section where she disguises herself as a red-haired Russian named Natasha Romanoff. I did particularly enjoy the stretch where Jacky hides as a governess since it required her to use more of her respectable skills, too often unemployed. Jacky gets in trouble, Jacky runs and hides in a new identity, flirts with a new man, eventually reunites with old friends just as the danger is greatest. WILD ROVER NO MORE follows the usual pattern. Meyer died in July and was quite sad, but I am happy he managed to finish this series as he wanted.) It was a fun ride, but it ran out of new ideas a few books ago. Still, at book s end she takes an assignment as ‘lady’s companion’ to the captain s wife aboard a whaler headed for London.When I read BOSTON JACKY, I noted that it felt like the 'same old, same old, and the new elements introduced never go as far as they might.' When I saw that WILD ROVER NO MORE was going to be the final book in the Bloody Jack Adventures, I felt relief. And where in the world is seafaring Jaimy? As her letters to him continue to go unanswered, Jacky grows more and more worried. Jacky soldiers on, getting herself into scrapes that her darling beau midshipman Jaimy Fletcher couldn’t even begin to imagine, including uncovering a shady minister s evil secret and fixing a horse race with voodoo. They re mean in ways that boys never even thought of being.’ It isn t long before Jacky shows her true colors by being arrested for ‘exposing a Female Part’ her knee while jigging in the streets and is ‘busted down’ to serving girl instead of student. They re like any bunch of thirty or so cats thrown in a sack and shaken up good.

It turns out that bloodthirsty buccaneers have nothing on the young ladies at the Lawson Peabody School! As Jacky observes, ‘…

Dolphin crew when they discover her true sex, Jacky Faber finds herself navigating entirely new waters. Meyer’s sequel to the enormously popular Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary ‘Jacky’ Faber, Ship’s Boy is just as bawdy and entertaining as the original. Bloody Jack is back and this time, she’s facing a situation far worse than a ship full of murderous pirates.

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