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

On 5/18/2022 3:51 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> 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 Earth technology was very outdated and they did not know that we 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.
>>
> A former vengeance demon's contribution to the discussion about what was 
> the source of the latest problem.

That is right, Anya was deadly scared of bunnies.

Lynn