My Bonny Light Horseman, 6

by L.A. Meyer

Book Overview

The infamous pirate, riverboat seductress, master of disguise, and street-urchin-turned-sailor Jacky Faber has been captured by the French and beheaded in full view of her friends and crew.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152061878
• ISBN13: 9780152061876
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

A horsewomen is born, a true Amazon

She keeps getting into more then she ever asked for, and that's an understatement. Jacky is captured by the British, then the French and executed in front of the prison populace. Thus touching off a prison riot, but in reality taken back to England to be recruited as a spy. Being trained as a ballerina, after seeing Jaimy gets home alive and visits him incurring his mother's ire she goes to Paris where she tries to gather information. Then manages to become a cavalry officer in Napolean's army where she leads troops and meets up with her best friends brother Randall, whose more then happy to see her. Its a great read with you turning page after page to the end.

This is my favorite in the 12 part series

Of all the books, this one is my favorite because it shells out her conflicting feelings of being both incredibly selfish and giving. She doesn't know where to put her loyalties so she only knows to go by trusting and being loyal to those she see and believes are good people. Any young person who knows that they aren't inherently 'good', but wants to become a better person should read this book. This book doesn't shove 'goodness' down the throat but shows how a person with may feelings and many emotions can maybe guide themselves to make decisions that are best for them. There isn't a true answer, but I love how Jacky is true to who she is and makes choices that feel right for her. She is cunning and silly, but most importantly she knows when to be kind and when to try and that is another reason why I love her. Clodhoppers live on!

Meyer and Kellgren do it again!

Yet another great adventure for our beloved Jacky, read, once again, most amazingly by Ms. Kellgren. What fun this story is, and now, along with much more French, Katherine adds German to the list of languages, accents, and dialects she treats us to! Just wonderful. Vive Bloody Jack!

Vive L'Empereur! Non. Vive Jacky Faber! Mais oui.

I finished reading MY BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN, the sixth book in the "Bloody Jack" series, a few weeks ago and am just now getting around to commenting on it. The other reviewers here have basically written about the plot and characters, so I won't repeat what has already been said. In this tale of the further adventures and misadventures of our dear Miss Jacky, she finds herself again at the mercy of the Royal Navy's Intelligence Department. She is to be sent to spy on the Grand Army of Napoleon in France. Posing as Mademoiselle Jacqueline Ophelia Bouvier (Jacqui O.? H'mmm That sounds familiar for some reason.) a dancer/seductress/spy with Madame Pelletier's troupe "Les Petites Gamines" in Paris, and then as a Cadet courier with Napoleon's Grand Army in France and Germany, charged with training a squad of raw enlistees knicknamed "The Clodhoppers," since they are all clumsy farmboys. She again involves herself in many dangers and narrow escapes...all exciting and great fun. Jacqui/Jacky still dreams about her true love Jaimy Fletcher back in London, but is also interested in a handsome young French officer named Jean-Paul de Valdon. One reviewer here was disappointed that Jacky was being unfaithful to Jaimy. Au contraire...Jacky was just being herself, a young lady who happens to like the company of handsome young men who are attracted to her. She was and always will be a fun-loving flirt. But, as always, she retains her virtue and deep love for Jaimy. I've already given away some of the story and will leave it up to the reader of this excellent novel to enjoy the whole book for himself. This is a wonderful novel in a marvelous series and I recommend it highly. Vive Jacky! Vive L. A. Meyer!

My Favorite Book from the Series!

I flew right through My Bonny Light Horseman, so quickly, I was truly sad to see it end. I've read all six books in the Bloody Jack series, and each one becomes my favorite as I read it, with this one being no different. From the start of the book, Jacky again finds herself in a many near-death situations, one that even forces her to become a spy for her country in a war against the French. Along with the usual main characters, Meyer introduces you to many new characters that you get acquainted with so quickly, it's as if you had been reading about them all along since the first Bloody Jack book. One new character that everyone should already be familiar with is the infamous French ruler, Napoleon, whom Jacky has a few important encounters with, one especially, that has a great impact with this book's outcome and the war of that time. Being a middle school language arts teacher, I would recommend this book to anyone that loves entertaining, historical, and even humorous books. If there is only one book that you buy a friend or loved one this year for the holidays, it has to be this one. It's a must read for the entire family.

Another Smash Hit!

The sixth installment of the Bloody Jack series, My Bonny Light Horseman, lives up to the high expectations of Jacky Faber fans. The brilliant L.A. Meyer continues to deliver a page turning, plot engrossing, swashbuckling, and landlubbing adventure! Those that are familiar with the series will be delighted to see old characters return and new ones added. Those who are not familiar with Mr. Meyer's work will become instant fans after reading this adventure and will be compelled to start at the beginning of the series and read each novel in rapid succession, as there is no going back once you have discovered the extraordinarily diverting and endearing stories of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy, Midshipman, Fine Lady, Lily of the West, Soldier, and Spy!

The Best Yet!

Mr. Meyer's books just keep getting better! This one, the 6th in the Bloody Jack series, is absolutely marvelous. What starts out to be a normal day for Jacky Faber ends up with her being captured yet again, and before you can even blink, the plot has thickened ten-fold, with the reappearance of Joseph Jared, Davy, and other characters. The guillotine, a classy cat-house in Paris, not to mention the great Napoleon Bonaparte, all come into Jacky's already complicated life. And as the subtitle suggests, both LOVE and WAR are intimately linked in this part of Jacky's story. Naturally, the epilogue leaves the reader slightly suspended, already awaiting book 7 quite anxiously. Do not be discouraged by the book's 400 something page count. What MLBH lacks for in pages, it makes up for in plot, drama, and classic Jacky-esque adventure. It's a page-turner, to be sure.