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    Rapture of the Deep: A Bloody Jack Adventure
    Rapture of the Deep: A Bloody Jack Adventure
    Rapture of the Deep: A Bloody Jack Adventure
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    Rapture of the Deep: A Bloody Jack Adventure

    Written by L. A. Meyer

    Narrated by Katherine Kellgren

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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!

    Set sail again and again with Bloody Jack.

    ©2010 LA Meyer (P)2010 Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherListen & Live Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2009
    ISBN9781593164850
    Rapture of the Deep: A Bloody Jack Adventure
    Author

    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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    • 3/5
      It's 1806, and once again Jackie Faber is separated from her love Jaimy when British intelligence kidnaps her and sends her to dive for a sunken treasure off the coast of Key West, Florida.
    • 4/5
      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 more time with her sweetie and ends up in the Caribbean, diving for treasure. Good times.
    • 5/5
      I freakin' love Jacky Faber. Seriously i have been reading these books for as long as i can remember.
      Rapture of the Deep is the 7th book in the series (7th!? can you believe that!? i can't!!) this one following Jacky after she was kidnapped by the British intelligance office on the very day she was to (finally) wed Officer James Fletcher (awwww i love Jaimy :]) To settle her debt with the king of England (for pirating in previous books) she's recruited to dive for Spanish gold off the coast of America.
      This is probably the first Bloody Jack book i've ever read that didn't end in a way most horrible. lol. I'm not even kidding. This one just starts kinda bad.
      Fortunately though, for those romantics that were nearing their wits end, Jacky and Jaimy are finally together in this book! Not married... not yet... but still! It's better than nothing!
      One thing i love about these books are the colourful cast of characters that has grown to epic proportions during these seven books. I mean, there are so many characters now that i can't even remember some of them.
      Lots of familiar faces return thought, including the Spanish pirate Jimez (i know for a fact that is spelled wrong.. but i can't find the book to fix it...) whom i love, because he's awesome. lol
      Other familiar faces are the Brotherhood, reunited at last (well, except for poor dear departed Benjy)
      This book brings the usual Jacky Faber cheeky humour and misadventures that we've all come to love. From buying and then freeing a slave, to rescuing a bantam rooster and entering it in cock fights. I can't say that this was my favourite (Bloody Jack, Under the Jolly Roger, and My Bonny-Light Horseman are my favourites.) But it was definitely an excellent edition.
      I'm really looking forward to the next installment which is apparently titled "Wake of the Lorelei Lee - Being the account of the adventures of Jacky Faber on her way to Botany Bay
      How totally awesome!!!
    • 4/5
      3.5 stars. This was better than the last. I really enjoyed the historical aspects of how technology and science was changing and the new ways they found to explore. While I'm not sure they were 100% accurate, they still have the general ideas right. A fun continuation.
    • 5/5
      Jacky is all dressed in white and ready to get married to the love of her life when she is kidnapped (duh) by British Royal Intelligence. They have a new mission for her: diving for long-lost Spanish gold off the coast of Key West. (In a diving bell!!!). It sounds so perfect. She gets to travel on her ship, with her own crew. She gets to stop in Boston for a few weeks on the way. Some of the gold goes toward repaying her debt to the Crown. She is escorted around the Caribbean by the good old H.M.S. Dolphin and its third mate - LT James Emerson Fletcher! The only catch? Jacky has to remain celibate. Poor, poor Jacky! Oh, and also she might be attacked by the Spanish. Or pirates. Or the Dolphin's second mate, the vile LT Flashby. Or various sea creatures.This is the last Jacky Faber audiobook that my library has and I am so sad right now. However, my despair was tempered by a bonus feature at the end of the audiobook: an interview session between Katherine Kellgren and L. A. Meyer. Kellgren asked Meyer about the inspiration for Jacky (a folk song called "Jackeroe") and Jacky's future (he has already written the final book and safely hidden it away, though he intends to keep writing them for awhile). Then Meyer asked Kellgren about her methods for preparing and performing the audiobooks. It was so amazing!
    • 4/5
      "Wait for the audio," I told myself. "You love the audio versions." But then one of my favorite patrons told me how much she loved this volume ("I think it's the best one so far!" she raved). And I tried to hold out for the audio still... and I made it a whole week.

      I know it's not great literature, but Jacky's adventures are just so much fun. While this volume took a little longer to get going, I think I, like my teen patron, have a new favorite installment.
    • 4/5
      Well Jacky & Jamie came as close as ever to being married but alas it is not meant to be again. This is no spoiler they are separated in the beginning of the book. I think it’s funny that these Englishmen are dumb enough to expect Jacky to find this sunken ship with gold on it then turn it all over to the crown, Ha as if!Jacky again uses her feminine wiles, but the number of men that are in love with her is adding up but as usual so are her enemies. I feel kind of sorry for Jamie he stands by Jacky no matter how bad these situations she gets herself into look. And sometimes these compromising situations are a bit worse than she lets on to Jamie.I enjoy this series but am wondering how it will keep going on because the last 2 were really similar. I will read/listen to the next one but I hope it’s a bit I don’t know, more.I listened to this one on audio narrated by, Katherine Kellgren as usual she does a fantastic job!4 Stars
    • 4/5
      Excellent addition to the series. Jacky is kidnapped on her wedding day by intelligence agency and sent on a mission to find gold off Key West, FL. Can't wait for the next one.
    • 3/5
      It's 1806, and once again Jackie Faber is separated from her love Jaimy when British intelligence kidnaps her and sends her to dive for a sunken treasure off the coast of Key West, Florida.
    • 5/5
      I love this series. This particular book did not blow me away, but I gave it 5 stars for still being a solid, enjoyable read.Jacky gets roped into diving for sunken treasure, while fending off a Spanish ship and dealing with pirates. Does that make it sound more exciting than it is, or does it explain why nothing much seemed to happen?One problem I have with it is the number of characters. As the series goes on, we get more and more, and it's really hard for me to tell one sailor or soldier from the next. I have trouble even keeping track of the ones I do know quite well and particularly like. Dr. Sebastian ended up on the other ship somehow, when I was sure he was still with Jacky on hers.Not being overly familiar with history, royal navy history in particular, and not being extensively read in the genre, I'm sure I'm missing a few things. But I did catch on to Dr. Sebastian early on (in an earlier book) and appreciated his inclusion. So it does make me wonder who else is drawn from other sources that I'm not catching on to.
    • 4/5
      Summary: After surviving her ordeal as a soldier and spy in France, Jacky Faber is back in England, preparing to marry her sweetheart, Jaimy, and settle down into marital bliss. (Well, maybe not settle down, exactly - this is Jacky Faber - but she's certainly looking forward to the marital bliss part.) However, the ceremony is rudely interrupted by members of the British Intelligence Service, coming to press Jacky into yet another tour of duty as a spy and secret agent. Her mission: find the site of a sunken Spanish ship in the Carribbean, and use a newly-invented diving apparatus to recover the treasure it holds... treasure that is dearly needed to fund the ongoing war against Napoleon. Review: I don't know where my love of nautical adventure stories came from, but give me a book set in the Age of Sail, with a little bit of scuba-diving and a lot of Jacky's trademark hijinks thrown in, and I'm a happy girl. Rapture of the Deep is just as much fun as earlier books in the series, and with one distinct advantage over most of them: the story was less fragmented and more cohesive. Jacky gets into just as much trouble, and has just as many adventures as ever, but they seemed to fit together better without feeling quite as jumbled as previous books. On the other hand, each book is becoming more and more reliant on knowledge of the preceeding books in the series. It seems like Jacky knows just about everyone on two continents and the ocean between, and runs into old friends and enemies with startling regularity. That's all well and good, but for those of us who first read Bloody Jack almost five years ago, some of the details are starting to get rather hazy, and Meyer doesn't provide a lot of background information to remind us of who various bit players are and why they're important. I remembered enough to understand what was going on, but there were a few places where I just had to take Jacky's word that this character was an enemy while that one was a friend. One thing I didn't particularly care for was the device of Jemimah (a slave that Jacky frees) telling Brer Rabbit stories to the youngsters aboard Jacky's ship. It's not a bad idea, and it did provide some nice parallels to Jacky's situation, but it was just overused, and got to the point where it would distract from Jacky's narrative and her misadventures, which are what we're here for. Still, even with that, I really enjoyed this book. It's manifestly very similar to the other Bloody Jack books, but in this case, that's okay. I wanted something reliably light, fun, and entertaining, and unsurprisingly, Jacky delivered yet again. 4 out of 5 stars.Recommendation: For fans of the earlier Bloody Jack books, Rapture of the Deep is more of the same - which, if you're a fan, that's all to the good. If you haven't read the earlier books, then I wouldn't start here, but if you like fun YA historical fiction, or nautical adventure stories, then I'd definitely recommend the series as a whole.
    • 4/5
      Jack is back! And I'm so glad she is. In this book Jackie is whisked away to the Caribbean to look for buried treasure, buried hundreds of feet under water that is, in the sunken ship the Santa Magdalena. There is a good deal of Mr. Fletcher in this book, always good, as well as Higgins, Davy, Tink, and Joannie. Some new characters, including Aunt Jemimah, a slave Jacky frees. The pirates, including Flaco, are brought back into the story and Jacky will behave just like Jacky around them. One of my new favorites in the series, following the older Jacky books, where she's out at see on a ship and Jaimy's near by. This book wasn't as confusing as some of the others and was easy to follow. Definite page turner and a wonderful addition to the series.
    • 5/5
      Sometimes it's difficult for me to write a review for a book that I truly love. Though I finished Rapture of the Deep several days ago, I have put off saying anything about it here at LibraryThing because I'm not really sure that I can formulate a proper review at all (admittedly, my reviews are generally rambly things anyway, so I guess this won't be too different from the norm).So, I really truly love Rapture of the Deep. It's another Bloody Jack Adventure, so as with the rest of the series, it follows a set of tropes such as "historical fiction, but with plenty of anachronisms" and "Jacky and Jaimy are in love and thisclose to each other, but kept apart by fate and also the British Navy, as usual". Jacky gets naked in front of people, does stunts that no sane person would ever do, gets into trouble with pirates and a Spanish warship, &c. &c. Nothing new, really.Well, actually, I guess I lie. There is something new in this book: at the very beginning, there is to be a wedding. Jacky's wedding. After the end of My Bonny Light Horseman, when Jacky dives into the ocean from a cliff in France, in order to swim out to the Nancy B. Alsop who lies at sea, the reader can probably expect that something of the sort will occur. After all, Jaimy is on the Nancy B., too, and the two of them will finally be able to be together for some days without interference from anyone except maybe the crew and Higgins.Not to spoil anyone, but the tropes I mentioned earlier, and how fate (and maybe the British Navy) always come between the two lovebirds before they can get together properly? Yeah, nothing changes with regards to that in Rapture. I love the way it comes up and the way everybody in the book reacts to it (also the rules put in place regarding it by the powers that be). I feel like the characters were snickering with evil glee as soon as Jacky stepped out of the room, and that does warm the dark side of my heart.Some of the details surrounding those opening bits bugged me, though, on account of being very modern, as in not even in the cultural language until after Queen Victoria. It wasn't enough to ruin the book, but I had trouble really getting into the story until after that plot bit got tied up, because the anachronism was a little too much for me (and I do willingly overlook other anachronisms that I notice, and those that I don't notice, even if sometimes I enumerate them with some exasperation).After that, though, the book was ten kinds of fantastic. Not quite enough to be my favorite of the series (Mississippi Jack still holds that position), but it's way way up there. Jacky goes on an expedition near Key West to recover some Spanish treasure, because the Navy is going broke what with the war against Napoleon, and of all things, her first home-at-sea the HMS Dolphin follows her down to provide protection and to pick up the gold. This makes for some really great story, because of who, exactly, is on the ship, and also the conflicts that come up with a giant Spanish warship and some pirates.Speaking of, I really love the scenes in Havana. Jacky, despite being a bleeding heart with a lot of modern sensibilities, loves cockfighting. And guess what is a popular sport in Havana. There's also an old pirate friend from her Emerald days in the Caribbean - like most of the male friends Jacky has, he's a little bit in love with her, and having Jaimy not too far away gives these scenes a little bit of something extra.There were some genuinely frightening scenes in this novel, mostly to do with the flora and fauna that Jacky and her friends encounter in Key West and the surrounding waters. There were also some really funny scenes, so I guess it all works out to be pretty fantastic.I love this book, and I think that other fans of the series will love it, too. It definitely requires familiarity with the other books to fully appreciate, though, since so much of the backstory that makes it work isn't really completely given.
    • 4/5
      Rapture of the Deep is the newest addition to the Bloody Jack adventures by L.A. Meyer. This time we find our heroine and her fearless friends in the Caribbean Sea around Cuba and the Florida Keys hunting for Spanish gold...on the orders of King George. Several old friends and foes show up in this edition, as well as some great new characters including Jemima, a former slave now employed as ships cook for Faber Shipping Worldwide, and the jolly rogue and pirate Flaco Jimenez. Fun and exciting, with several tall tales from the Deep South told by Jemima thrown in for spice. Readers who fell in love with the sailor (and sometimes pirate) Jacky will love this edition.