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

On 5/17/2022 6:23 PM, Dimensional Traveler 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 light, their understanding of Earth technology was very outdated and 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.)

Did you read the second book and explained the technology behind the 
vampires ?

Lynn