Rapture of the Deep: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy
On the very day that Jacky Faber is to wed her true love, she is kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission—this time to search for sunken Spanish gold. But when Jacky is involved, things don't always go as planned. Jacky has survived battles on the...
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On the very day that Jacky Faber is to wed her true love, she is kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission—this time to search for sunken Spanish gold. But when Jacky is involved, things don't always go as planned. Jacky has survived battles on the high seas, the stifling propriety of a Boston finishing school, and even confinement in a dank French prison. But no adventure has quite matched her opportunistic street-urchin desires—until now.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780152065010 (0152065016)
Publish date: September 28th 2009
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 454
Edition language: English
Series: Bloody Jack (#7)
It's so very hard not to write too much because I don't want to give anything away to my friends who are already planning to read this! I will write that L.A. Meyer keeps up his series without missing a beat. Everything fantastic is still there, and it only gets better. Someone really needs to make ...
We're pretty far into the adventures of Jacky Faber by this point. Sometimes the dialog is a bit lazy and sometimes I am a little creeped out by how the writer - an older man - seems fixated on how cute her bottom is. Luckily, her adventures are still a lot of fun. This time she gets to spend mor...
I hadn't realized this was number seven, because my library listings aren't always good about giving series numbers. Bother. Now I have to decide if I want to read it out of sequence.