A review by kjcharles
Ack-Ack Macaque by Gareth L. Powell

A story about a hard-drinking monkey Spitfire pilot sounded like escapist fun. Unfortunately the completely gratuitous part where the heroine's alter ego is repeatedly raped (off page) and subjected to such body horror that she's driven to suicide (on page, and I'm not even going into how problematic that element was) was...not escapist fun. It's about a goddamn *monkey fighter pilot*, and we still have to have misogynist violence? Why?