Curse of the Blue Tattoo
Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady
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After being forced to leave HMS Dolphin and Jaimy, her true love, Jacky Faber is making a new start at the elite Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston. But growing up on the streets of London and fighting pirates never prepared Jacky for her toughest battle yet: learning how to be a fine lady. Everything she does is wrong. Her embroidery is deplorable, her French is atrocious, and her table manners--disgusting! Then there's the small matter of her blue anchor tattoo. . . . Despite her best efforts, Jacky can't seem to stay out of trouble long enough to dedicate herself to being ladylike. But what fun would that be, anyway?
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7 primary books#2 in Bloody Jack
Bloody Jack is a 7-book series with 7 released primary works first released in 2002 with contributions by L.A. Meyer.
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I am absolutely LOVING this series! The main character is one of the best I've read in a long while, and the adventures and scrapes she gets into are wildly entertaining but somehow manage to remain utterly natural and believable. I highly recommend these books.
I do love this series - it's fun and enormously engaging, and I find myself talking to Jacky (mostly saying, “No! Think before you act!”), but I found some of the allusions to assault rather disturbing and too casually handled. That's the only qualm I have with the book - otherwise, these are a rollicking good read, with well-developed characters and even a bit of a history lesson :)
