Re: "Into the Light (Out of the Dark, 2)" by David Weber and Chris Kennedy

On 5/17/2022 2:11 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "Into the Light (Out of the Dark, 2)" by David Weber and Chris Kennedy
>     https://www.amazon.com/Into-Light-Out-Dark-2/dp/0765366924/
> 
> Book number two of a two book series of an alien invasion science 
> fiction series.  I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published 
> by Tor in 2021.  I suspect that there will be a third book in the series 
> as the book ends on a cliffhanger, which, I plan to purchase and read.
> 
> I've got vampires in my alien invasion science fiction book !
> 
> The first book in the series detailed an invasion by the Shongairi in 
> which they used multiple kinetic weapons on every city on Earth of 
> 100,000+ people and all military bases.  Three quarters of the human 
> population of Earth died in a matter of minutes.  Due to the fact that 
> the Shongairi space ships could only attain six times the speed of 
> light, their understanding of Earth technology was very outdated and 
> they did not know that we had progressed from an agrarian society into a 
> very industrialized society.
> 
> As the first Shongairi troop ships were landing on the Earth, they were 
> destroyed by F-22 stealth fighter jets.  As soon as the F-22 jets landed 
> at their hidden airfields, those were also destroyed using kinetic 
> weapons.  After the Shongairi troops rampaged through the Earth 
> population remnants, the vampires appeared out of Eastern Europe.  The 
> vampires were virtually indestructible and rode back up on the outside 
> of their landers to the Shongairi space ships in Earth orbit.  They then 
> boarded the space ships and proceed to kill all the Shongairi in orbit.
> 
> Now the horribly damaged human population on Earth has to rebuild, both 
> the population and the facilities.  But they have an advantage, the now 
> empty Shongairi space ships and several Galactic Hegemony neural 
> educators.  Vlad Dracula has taken one of the interstellar space ships 
> with a crew of several hundred and is headed 200+ light years to the 
> Shongairi home planet to pay back some of the damage that they did to 
> Earth.  And one of the few remaining state governors of the USA has 
> become the USA President and is planning on creating a one world 
> government to fight the Galactic Hegemony.
> 
> David Weber has an excellent website at:
>     http://www.davidweber.net/
> 
> Chris Kennedy has a website at:
>     https://chriskennedypublishing.com
> 
> My rating:  4.4 out of 5 stars
> Amazon rating:  4.5 out of 5 stars (1,733 reviews)
> 
It really was VERY weird the way he brought vampires into the first 
book.  <starts singing>I have a theory, it could be bunnies....<stops 
singing>  Um, no vampires!  It was almost like he realized he'd written 
humanity into too tiny of a corner and needed as deus ex machina to save 
them.  So, No One Expect the Vampire Inquisition!

(Or the bunnies.)


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