Friday, March 5, 2010

In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being An Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber by L.A. Meyer


Read by Katherine Kellgren. And she is an awesome narrator--just sayin'!

Had to give this Odyssey Award Honor Winner a chance and I'm glad I did! I'm a huge fan of listening to audiobooks involving accents and I got an earful with this young adult title! English, Irish, Cheapside, posh, and, of course, pirate. Yay!

This is actually the 4th book in the Bloody Jack Adventure series (Bloody Jack, The Curse of the Blue Tattoo, Under the Jolly Roger), but I didn't read the books after Bloody Jack. In this book, Jacky must return to the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston to hide because she is wanted by the British for being piracy. So, like a good girl, she resorts to lessons and being a "lady." But a class trip excursion turns into a nightmare when the girls are kidnapped by a slaver to be sold in North Africa to sultans. Jacky's pirate experience helps her and her schoolmates as they fight to survive in the belly of the ship. Of course, they escape, but a surprise ending means that Jacky's fate isn't quite so rosy as that of her classmates. And, dang it, now I have to read the next book in the series to figure out what happens!

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