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

In article <[email protected]>,
Dimensional Traveler  <[email protected]> wrote:
>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 light, their understanding of Earth technology was very outdated and 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.)
>

I was not too happy with the partial explanation of the Vamps we got
here.  I would have liked to stay with a Magic/Tech universe.  Also
I felt the foreshadowing detracted from any suspense.  Still I will
pick up the next one, if any, which I can't say for the Safehold books.
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