The Wake of the Lorelei Lee

Bloody Jack #8

De: L. A. Meyer

Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren

Jacky Faber, rich from her exploits diving for Spanish gold, has purchased the Lorelei Lee to carry passengers across the Atlantic. Believing she has been absolved of past sins against the Crown, Jacky docks in London to take on her crew, but is instead arrested and sentenced to life in the newly formed penal colony in Australia. To add insult to injury, the Lorelei Lee is confiscated to carry Jacky and more than 200 female convicts to populate New South Wales.

Not one to give in to self pity, Jacky rallies her sisters to "better" their position - resulting in wild escapades, brushes with danger, and much hilarity. Will Jacky find herself a founding mother of New South Wales, Australia? Not if she has anything to do about it!

L. A. Meyer received a master of fine arts from Boston University, and is currently the curator and exhibitor at the Clair de Loon Gallery in Bar Harbor, Maine. He lives in Corea, Maine. Katherine Kellgren has recorded over 60 audiobooks including Bloody Jack, which won an Audie Award, a Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award, and ForeWord magazine's Audiobook of the Year.

Spend some more time with Bloody Jack.©2011 L. A. Meyer (P)2011 Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

True to form

Another great adventure, If i didn't love the series and characters so much i could get frustrated.

Not the best Bloody Jack but still great fun!

What made the experience of listening to The Wake of the Lorelei Lee the most enjoyable?

Katherine Kellgren is a fantastic narrator

What other book might you compare The Wake of the Lorelei Lee to and why?

All other Bloody Jack books.

What does Katherine Kellgren bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The songs and various dialects

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

No, they are just great fun. Other books in the series dealt with deeper subjects. e.g. Slavery and racism.

Love the series!

This is such an entertaining, engaging series, full of adventure! The narrator does a wonderful job with ALL of the voices. I am particularly impressed with the fact that her voice as Jackie is consistent, even when Jackie has different accents, and that Jackie's voice is separate from other characters with similar accents -- if that makes sense!

Another excellent listening experience

I love this series ! The narrator has done such a great job! L.A. Meyer puts so much real history in the books, this one was most interesting to look up afterward. Thank you !!

Jackie has a way of popping back up !

Fantastic yet true to character transitions and joyous acceptance of her situations. Hard work, strong love for all learning and fearlessness keep her valuable. Her respect and affection for all her shipmates makes her voyages somehow survivable.

Such intense great FUN from dire start to tense brotherhood finish.

one of my favorite series

Would you consider the audio edition of The Wake of the Lorelei Lee to be better than the print version?

Definitely. The narrator truly makes the story.

What other book might you compare The Wake of the Lorelei Lee to and why?

None like it.

What about Katherine Kellgren’s performance did you like?

Everything.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The end. I like ending that aren't expected. You would have assumed she would have finally rushed to marry Jaime. But not!!

Any additional comments?

Love it.

4/5

Bloody Jack Series #8
Run Time: 14 hrs and 53 mins
Genre: Mostly YA Adventure and then it flips to Adultish Adventure
Summary:
This is another high-seas adventure featuring the crazy, smart, sassy, sometimes dumb, and very impulsive Mary “Jacky” Faber. Jacky gets arrested in England and sentenced to an Australian penal colony.

Additional Comments:
• It’s got about 7-hours of random, sometimes raunchy filler material. Long-winded does not begin to describe it. I think it takes about 3 hours to get to the arrest that sends Jacky on this journey. There are also a LOT of side trails, some necessary, some not so much.
• Katherine Kellgren’s performance is stellar as usual. She had a lovely singing voice, but even so, most of those were just filler.
• Jacky seems to work hard at keeping her girls out of trouble, but then has 0 trouble being the “pet” of a Chinese pirate. That alone would flip this well out of YA range for me, which is kinda a shame because the rest of the series is absolutely fantastic and YA friendly.
• I don’t remember much about Joseph Jarred so the tension with him just came across as uber weird.
• Content Warning: There’s a LOT of cursing, some understandable. It includes 4 ish f-bombs, mostly by Jaime or the Irish crew. Their sections were fine, but the story could very easily have skipped over those or summarized later.

Conclusion:
This is an adult version of Jacky Faber. She’s still spunky and on many adventures, but if you’re giving this to kids, tap out at book 7 and mentally end with happily ever after.

They just keep getting better

The Bloody Jack books are my favorites and they just keep getting better. Katherine Kellgren is the perfect person to narrate Jacky’s life. I cannot express how wonderful L. A. Meyer wrote this book and how fantastically Katherine brought Jacky to life.

Prisoner again, my my.

Poor Jacky is always a prisoner, but it is exciting to find out how she tricks and maneuvers around everyone, I liked how even Jaime tries to think like Jacky when he wants to escape. At first, I was a bit hesitant with this story but as usual it is a romping adventure. I’m always amazed at how well LA Meyers can create new and intriguing characters. Of course, I am excited to see old friends and have new ones come along. I do believe thought that this story is getting to the point where Jacky and Jaime need to get it on. Poor Jacky is almost raped in every book, she needs to have her first time with Jaime and marry already. I was a little annoyed with the end in this regard. Narrator does an excellent job, she is very animated and she embodies Jackie so well, it is a pleasure to listen to her.

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Where does The Wake of the Lorelei Lee rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Right near the top. It's not the prose or the story (which are good) so much as the fantastic performance by the narrator. It's pure entertainment that makes you taste the salt air and feel waves. If you are interested in nautical history or tall ships, if you like historical fiction, early 19th century in particular, you should try this series. Start with Blood Jack and enjoy.

What did you like best about this story?

Ms. Kellgren is a one woman tour-de-force. There are so many, many characters, accents, regional nuances and languages in the series and she manages to not only capture them but make them real.

Which character – as performed by Katherine Kellgren – was your favorite?

She IS Jacky Faber.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I definitely did. However, I'm getting pretty nervous because there are only two books left in the series!