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

On 5/17/2022 9:22 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> 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 light, their understanding of Earth technology was very outdated and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.

This series is very closely related to the "The Excaliber Alternative" 
universe.  I fully expect that should there be a book #3, another player 
will be admitted to the game.  Probably not named Avalon though.
    https://www.amazon.com/Excalibur-Alternative-David-Weber/dp/0743435842

Lynn