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

On 5/17/2022 8:35 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 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 of light, their understanding of Earth technology was very outdated 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 ?
> 
Not yet.  Bought it just recently because my finances have improved but 
haven't gotten to it.  Did read the first some time back.

(And I'm betting you don't get the bunnies.)


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