Into the Light
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In New York Times-bestselling science fiction epic Out of the Dark, Earth beat back an alien invasion. Now we've got to make sure they don't come back, in Into the Light. The Shongairi conquered Earth. In mere minutes, half the human race died, and our cities lay in shattered ruins. But the Shongairi didn’t expect the survivors’ tenacity. And, crucially, they didn’t know that Earth harbored two species of intelligent, tool-using bipeds. One of them was us. The other, long-lived and lethal, was hiding in the mountains of eastern Europe, the subject of fantasy and legend. When they emerged and made alliance with humankind, the invading aliens didn’t stand a chance. Now Earth is once again ours. Aided by the advanced tech the aliens left behind, we’re rebuilding as fast as we can. Meanwhile, a select few of our blood-drinking immortals are on their way to the Shongairi homeworld, having commandeered one of the alien starships...the planet-busting kind. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Put this book down, turn around, and walk away as fast as you can. The first 2/3s of this book is just an info dump of where Earth went from the last book, which, by the way, was so long ago that I forgot I read it. The last third is the “climax” that comes out of nowhere. One minute we're rebuilding on Earth and planning to wipe out the Hegemony, the next we're on some alien planet. There's no prep at all for this jump. Actually, the authors looked like they were setting up the finale to be the ravaging of the Shongair planet. That would have been connected in a real way to the main narrative (it's definitely not a story).
This has all the problems of Weber's Honor Harrington series and none of the charms. It's long-winded with descriptions of things that just don't need describing. There are a lot - A LOT - of words that don't form a cogent narrative.
