[books 2015] Ack-Ack Macaque
17. Ack-Ack Macaque by Gareth L Powell
Gareth is a local writer. People at the local SciFi group meetings often praised his work but I thought this was some sort of cheesy young adult steampunk thing.
The he did a reading at the Fringe event a couple months back, whereupon I discovered that although yes it is steampunk, it's very sweary and very, very funny. The third volume was due out the following week so I duly purchased the whole trilogy at the launch event. (To which Gareth turned up in a monkey suit. It was ace).
There's not a great deal to it, but it does have some depths and concepts. But mainly, oh my, it's funny. Perfect bus reading except for the laughing out loud at lines like "your so-called dog just told me to go fuck myself".
I started volume 2 immediately after finishing this. So yeah, go read it. It's fun.
Gareth is a local writer. People at the local SciFi group meetings often praised his work but I thought this was some sort of cheesy young adult steampunk thing.
The he did a reading at the Fringe event a couple months back, whereupon I discovered that although yes it is steampunk, it's very sweary and very, very funny. The third volume was due out the following week so I duly purchased the whole trilogy at the launch event. (To which Gareth turned up in a monkey suit. It was ace).
There's not a great deal to it, but it does have some depths and concepts. But mainly, oh my, it's funny. Perfect bus reading except for the laughing out loud at lines like "your so-called dog just told me to go fuck myself".
I started volume 2 immediately after finishing this. So yeah, go read it. It's fun.