Have finished the two new books in the Bloody Jack sequence and man, were they good.
I really like Jacky has a heroine because she is brave, flirty, fun, capable and willing to learn and change. She is also a show off, a danger magnet and capable of doing incredibly stupid things. Three dimensional characters rock my world.*
One frustrating thing about these books is the endless amount of trouble that Jacky ends up in. It's disaster after disaster with a little bit of happiness and then more disaster. These two actually had some quite upsetting torture scenes in them as well, especially in Mississippi Jack which I could barely read.
The other frustrating thing is the endlessly strung out romance between Jacky and Jaimy. Every time they get close together fate (or disaster) drags them apart again. I want some freaking closure!
On the other hand I also want L.A. Meyer to keep writing these books forever because they are such good fun and so exciting and involving.
So, yeah. I'm a little conflicted. Mostly though, these are rollicking good reads. I want to call them Girls' Own Adventure stories, because no other genre seems to fit.
In other girl-pirate-novel related news I picked up Piratica 3 today. Awesome.
I am currently reading Eclipse the third in the annoyingly emo weak girl vampire romance series. It's really well written. If only she could stop being so weak and emo, but alas, some things are not to be.
*worries that the characters in own book are not 3d enough...
Posted by jenni at November 22, 2007 05:32 PM