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

On 5/17/2022 10:36 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 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 outdated and they did not know that we had progressed from an 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.
> 
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Once More With Feeling.



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