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Jacky has been found out and she's been shipped off to boarding school in Boston and that's where we start this second installment of the Bloody Jack series, Curse of the Blue Tattoo.
This particular entry doesn't have the swashbuckling and adventure of new places that we get in most of the series, but this is the first point where Meyer really starts amping up the historical setting.


I have to admit I love learning about history, but my feel for where events from different places fit together is pretty weak.
One of the things I like about this series best is that as Jacky travels the world, we're really drawn into the world of the time.
We get a feel for Boston as a small community still heavily impacted by its Puritan roots, Curse is set right at the turn of theth century, maybeor 'Boston wouldn't be chartered as a city for anotheryears.
We see the tension between the British and newlyminted Americans that would result in another war in a few years, and Jacky's reaction to having a French classmate is interesting.
Many of the troubles that Jacky finds herself in are caused by her runins with the conservative, Puritan laws of Boston,

While the adventures pile up, and Jacky has her highs and lows, there is an underlying mystery that is the overarching plot of the novel.
Jacky's new minister, Richard Mather, is a dyedinthewool fire and brimstone preacher, and, it is implied, is the grandson of Cotton Mather, who wrote extensively about witchcraft and supported the outcomes of the Salem Witch Trials.
Jacky finds out Richard Mather may be after her, but why Is it for her good or his And what happened to his last serving girl

I simply cannot recommend the audio version of these books enough.
Katherine Kellgren brings this book to life, She also has a lovely singing voice and since Jacky makes some money with her music, there are plenty of opportunities to hear it.
It's something that just won't translate with the written word, These are classic adventure stories where our heroine is out of the frying pan and into the fire, without a moment of rest, Listen as a family and maybe the kiddos will pick something up! Meyer, L, A. Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady,pgs, Harcourt, Inc. LanguagePG, Sexual ContentPG ViolencePG

After her perilous encounter with the dread pirate Le Fievre and her discovery as a girl, Jacky is put off the Dolphin and sent to a finishing school funded by her shares from the spoils of capturing the pirates loot.
Under the stern thumb of the infamous Mistress Pimm, Jacky discovers just how far she is from becoming the fine lady Jaimy would like her to be.
Jacky soon realizes that the social rules and etiquette of Boston is much stricter that that of London, With her tendency for impulsiveness and her temper, Jacky soon finds herself demoted to a household servant at the school, There she finds friends and forms the dreaded sisterhood, Many adventures await Jacky in this next volume of her story, Readers will want the next volume close at hand as they reach the end of this story, Upper MS/HS. Essential Allison MadsenTeen LibrarianSJO Public Librarian "Bloody Jack is back and this time, she's facing a situation far worse than a ship full of murderous pirates.
Curse of the Blue Tattoo, L, A. Meyer's sequel to the enormously popular Bloody Jack, is just as bawdy and entertaining as the original,

Left in Boston by the H, M. S. Dolphin crew when they discover her true sex, Jacky Faber finds herself navigating entirely new waters, It turns out that bloodthirsty buccaneers have nothing on the young ladies at the Lawson Peabody School! As Jacky observes, "", . . they're like any bunch of thirty or so cats thrown in a sack and shaken up good, 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.
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.


And where in the world is seafaring Jaimy As her letters to him continue to go unanswered, Jacky grows more and more worried.
Still, at Curse of the Blue Tattoo's end she takes an assignment as ""lady's companion"" to the captain's wife aboard a whaler headed for London, Astute readers will notice that the whaler's crabby captain has a peg leg and won't be surprised if in the next Bloody Jack Adventure, Jacky ends up hunting the great white whale!" DNF at

Jack is still a fun character, she still has a knack to get into trouble.
But the setting I don't like, I wanted adventure at sea, marine life, water, Jamie, Instead we have a school for ladies, curtseys, sailors on land and letter from Jamie, Not at all what I expected, I wasn't sure about this going inafter all, a book about an uncultured girl being thrown into finishing school How many of these awkward fishoutofwater stories do we need

I should have trusted.
This isn't any girl, this is Jacky Faber, who gets herself into any number of delightful scraps and mishaps, In spite of Jacky's constant mooning over her boyfriend from whom she hasn't heard in several months, this is still at its heart a fastpaced adventure story, and I think it still has boy appeal, if sold the right way.


Because I can't go without complaining about something, I will say that maybe too much happens in this volumeit seems there's not a situation Jacky can't get herself into, and the end sequence happens in a blur.
It sets up the next book nicely, though, and I'll be reading that one as an actual, honesttogoodness book, since it hasn't been released to audio yet.


This volume has an awful lot of singing in it, and the reader has a wonderful voice for this aspect, Worth a listen! There was no piracy or seafarin' in this edition of Jacky Faber's life, but I loved it anyway, Jacky Faber is probably my favorite heroine, Having posed as a ship's boy in the Royal Navy in book one and unfortunately, been found out, Jacky now finds herself set off her beloved ship, The Dolphin, and put into a school for ladies in Boston.
This young gal has now gone from orphan to ship's boy to midshipman, to "fine lady" to chambermaid and finally to barroom performer, horse rider, and detective.


Needless to say, the lady's school isn't agreeing with Jacky, She gets herself arrested for flashing her knee in public and the result is a deomotion in rank, No longer a student of the lady's school, Jacky finds herself cleaning chamber pots for the ladies instead of being a lady herself, There's an advantage to this new situation tho and that is now Jacky is free to come and go as she pleases and in the process, gets into trouble, sings at the bar, sneaks letters to her beloved Jaimy, and investigates the mysterious murder of a maid who worked for the possibly perverted priest next door who now has his sights set on Jacky.


There was no end to the laughter and smiles, Jacky gets herself in and out of every scrape imaginable, She hates the school for ladies, but she loves her new friends and this creates a dilemma for her, Stay at the school and risk the wrath of the dangerous priest or hitch a ride on the next boat out and find her beloved Jaimy Would Jaimy even want

her anymore tho now that she has failed at becoming a lady

Guess book three may have the answers.
Reread.

for a Jacky Faber book this doesn't mean it's any oldstar book though, As with Bridgerton, these are in comparison to the others in the series, which sometimes necessitates lower ratings so that my ranking is clear.


This is a necessary second book because it sets up a lot of Jacky's 'lady' and social skills and introduces many darling and beloved characters, but all hijinks remain on dry land and that's just not what I'm here for.


Side note, did I always imagine Ezra Pickering as Ezra Felon Fitz from PLL Which came first in my brain and/or is this a new development.