The Jinxed Pirate by M. Walsh

Katrina has decided to see if the survivors of Vigor will accept her back, which doesn't go over very well, as a kind of peace offering one of the surviving Nobles tells her Jagger her boyfriend from before the war is alive. With nothing to lose and everything to gain Katrina sets off to find Jagger. 

In the meantime, Krutch and Arkady are once again tracked down and after getting away (by tumbling off a cliff) he finds himself in a weird Mission, with a weird woman who is far too interested in him. After another escape this time from the mission he and Jessica, aka Audra Fay set off for Seba, where Krutch plans to lie low. Audra has other ideas though and Krutch immediately finds himself rubbing elbows with some of the most powerful men in the Grayland's criminal underworld. 

Lily believes she can now live among humans so she heads North only to discover her monstrous instincts are not as under control as she believed. After brutally murdering a guard she flees back South, believing there is truly nowhere for her. 

And in a small town, a young family will find themselves at the center of everything after stumbling upon a relic of pure evil. 

What a freaking ride! Katrina's story could not get sadder if Walsh tried (dear gods do *not* try!), just one disappointment for her after another for genuinely doing nothing wrong except getting some serious PTSD after watching her entire country die. She also ends up teaming up with everyone's favorite serial killer in this one which proved to be oddly delightful. Scifer is so freaking evil and yet he's kinda not. He really may be my favorite character. Well, right after Krutch Leeroy, that poor guy. Seriously, if Katrina has it bad he's got it worse and Audra Fay was the worst thing that could have ever happened to him. She says Mr. L, though and that made my freaking day (you'll get it once you read it), almost as much as the ending did. Seriously, though Audra is the type of character that you can't even love to hate, she's just obnoxious and deranged and I wanted to punch her the whole book. The rest of the characters introduced were amazing as well, my favorite, Lock, actually lives so yay for that, but, his story in the next book is going to be just as devastating as everyone else's I can feel it. 

World building was of course excellent and this is super important because with the introduction of Seba as this hive debauchery and murder it kind of had to be. But Walsh does an excellent job integrating it and honestly, it feels like a country onto itself. The Graylands period is this kind of Wild West but Seba is ten times worse and Walsh does an excellent job of enforcing that idea. Especially when all hell breaks loose. 

Genuinely highly recommend this series, it's a ton of fun with excellent characters. It feels like it's a Western set in a fantasy world and I've really loved this mixing of these two genres. Can't wait to read the next book!