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

On 5/18/2022 1:29 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 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 Earth technology was very outdated and they did not know that we 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.
> 
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