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

On 5/18/2022 9:44 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> 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 very outdated and they did not know that we had progressed from an 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.

Ugh.  Not my favorite Buffy episode.  Giles singing was not the best. 
And I still don't get the bunnies so I guess that I am not remembering 
something about that particular episode.

Lynn