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

On 5/17/2022 11:40 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> 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 outdated and they did not know that we had progressed from an 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.)

You know, I cannot even write a clear sentence tonight so, no way I got 
the bunnies.

You will like the explanation for the "vampires'.  And the horrible 
downside for being a "vampire".

Good to hear that your finances have improved.  I have been able to buy 
as many books as I want since 1995 (I am 61).  But, I have a verbal 
warning from the wife since I have over 400 books in my SBR (strategic 
book reserve) aka the 72 by 36 inch bookshelf on my side of our bed.  I 
need to cull it by 200 books and make her happy as I have books that I 
will never read in there (abandoned series, changing tastes, etc).

Lynn