Also, the blue-green tint of this cover makes this book look like a paranormal romance but it’s totally not. Her hair is gracefully billowing in the wind, but in the book Jacky took great care to keep her hair either short or concealed and she would never, ever have let it whip in the wind while out on deck. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?! Yes, this cover feels distinctly more YA, but they couldn’t have been more off the mark with their portrayal of Jacky. If I were a young reader perusing through YA and saw this cover, I might think that it was a middle grade novel that had been incorrectly shelved. But Jacky looks so young and androgynous in this picture that I can imagine it was hard to have this on a shelf in the YA section.
I like the sense of movement – it’s reminds me of a still from an action movie. I have seen both in stores and on library shelves, and they are so wildly different that we need to do a compare-and-contrast right here, right now. Currently available.įace Value: Here we have a curious tale of two covers for one book. Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy by L.A.
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