A review by ergative
The Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty Jay by Chris Wooding

3.75

 Just as much fun as the first! It does suffer, just a smidge, from the token-girl-must-be-awesome trope, but the male characters are profoundly flawed in so many entertaining ways, while each having their own distinct strength to contribute which just barely makes them more an asset than a liability (but only just barely). I quite enjoy how everything the Ketty Jay does is basically lurching from one fuck-up to another, to the point that any time something is going just barely right for just a moment, I know that in the next line there's going to be an explosion, or a betrayal, or something's going to go catastrophically pear-shaped. Yes, fine, so it's predictable, but so enjoyably so!