In New York Times best-selling 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 home world, having commandeered one of the alien starships...the planet-busting kind.

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12 January 2021
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Listening Length	25 hours and 28 minutes
Author	David Weber, Chris Kennedy
Narrator	Ralph Lister
Audible.com.au Release Date	12 January 2021
Publisher	Macmillan Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B087V6VL7G
Best Sellers Rank	40,861 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 302 in First Contact Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 945 in Space Opera Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 2,354 in Alien Invasion Science Fiction

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Phil Wallis

Not worth it

Reviewed in Australia on 9 April 2021

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The characters are under developed while page after page explains why they think this was a good idea or why that was a bad idea or what the consequences might be, the dog like aliens with hyper drive tech use normal bullets, the author spends far too much time explaining the difference between types of guns and ammo than actually telling the story - could not finish it

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Different but more like the old Weber

Reviewed in Australia on 28 December 2014

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All I can say here (with heart felt relief) is thank goodness. This is more like the writing we've come to expect from Weber.
I must confess to being extremely disappointed with Safehold and will probably not continue with it until I know there's going to be some resolution.
Out Of The Dark goes back to the tried & true plot of aliens misjudging the drive & inventiveness of Humanity.
There is the (so called peaceful) Interstellar Council looking out for its own good despite what that means to newer races.
The only warlike race in the council being manipulated to take on Humanity. And of course, we poor humans know nothing about any of it until we are invaded!
Of course, with our backs to the wall we come out fighting but, unfortunately it's defeat all the way. How will he get a happy ending out of this we think? Well, as another reviewer said 'I didn't see that coming!'
Yes we overcame but satisfactorily?
This is why I gave it only 4 stars.
It will be interesting to see if he continues this with another book.

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BreakMaster Q

missed the nuke subs

Reviewed in Australia on 4 February 2015

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Really good story ending bit twisted but the gaping hole is what were the road ICBMs and Ohio nuke subs were doing couldn't they have turned the alien invaders back?since they came to lower earth or it? Not the best weber story overall grat 2/3 of it though good characters development as usual.

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Mark Law

great read -just a great escapist romp

Reviewed in Australia on 17 July 2021

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Good escapist sci fi

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Michael Clark

Worth persevering with.

Reviewed in Australia on 28 August 2016

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I read the short story from which this novel developed and thoroughly enjoyed such an innovative approach. When I started reading the novel I struggled at first, but perseverance paid off because this is one of Mr Weber's best.

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John

Dissonant Plot Premise

Reviewed in Australia on 24 July 2022

I know this story is escapist fantasy but I find the survivalist family in South Carolina really annoying. They purport to be de ent, patriotic, pro armed forces citizens but behave in an entirely contradictory manner. Rather than coming to their country and countrymen’s aid in time of crisis they hunker down with their tinned food and give a big finger to the country. Perhaps people like this exist but I don’t want them as heroic protagonists. Overall grade: David must do better next semester.

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I should have liked this book, but at the end..

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 January 2021

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I'm probably not going to bother with book 2.

It's a well-worn trope. Aliens invade and bite off more than they can chew. Despite having the high orbitals and killing half the world's population in their initial bombardment, the plucky human resistance fights back.

Spoilers ahead!

This is a pretty well written genre book. We've got weapons systems lovingly described and great combat. The hapless aliens are characterized pretty well, and I was almost expecting a "Footfall" moment where they roll over and submit.

Then at the end It's Vampire Ex Machina. Dracula and his thralls wipe out the aliens, ride the shuttles up to orbit and take over the fleet without any problems.

Now, mil sci-fi where the humans are rescued by Dracula? Sign me up. But sadly, Mr Weber managed to make it kind of a boring afterthought of a climax. Humans win, seize the enemy fleet and wipe out the enemy. Now they'll take the fight to the stars. How do you make that not exciting?

Anyway, I'd give it a miss just to avoid the disappointment at the end. This one could have used some more beta readers, and an editor or two.

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jon

Do not waste your money. Warning contains Spoilers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2018

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I am a Honorverse fan but this book was very disappointing and I regret spending money on it.
The plot is very John Ringo with aliens with limited tech or tactics invading the earth. The resistance is heroic and every gun and weapon system is named in full. I kinda need to know it is a semi automatic rifle. Do I need to know the model number, calibre and weight of the bullet and cartridge? A small part of the plot is interesting when the dog/pack like aliens start to get an insight into human mindsets in contrast to their own
The ending degenerates into fantasy of the worst sort. With-one-bound-Jack-was-free type. Vlad the impaler rescues humanity by using vampiric powers to become smoke and kill loads of the invaders. In SF we at least deserve SOME explanation as to how that might be possible.

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Carrick

Lightweight Weber

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 August 2019

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Neat premise, harsh realities on human nature and geo-political frailty. Quirky heroes and anti-heroes (good and bad). Some quick (and impressive) plugs for survivialism. Some intelligent aliens, though 'thin' worldbuilding there by Weber's usual standards

So we have global partisan struggles and despite human frailty some temporary triumphs against the odds. Finally the high tech aliens are too overwhelming and just as adversity grinds humanities last hope down, finally a 'Deus ex Machina' resolution.

Good, lightweight, quick read; nothing epic: Very much of the Apocalypse Troll and Dahak standard of writing. Nothing on the Treecat or Harrington level

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Deepak

Fragmented story telling

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 July 2021

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Whilst there's a consistent central plot (invasion of contemporary Earth by nasty aliens) the story is told from view point of several different people in different places. This breaks up the story telling. There's also bit too much of character (and weapons) background, not relevant to main story, and not interesting to me. The second book in this series has better reviews so I'm going to (try and) read it. This book didn't have me look forward to continue reading the story, like so many other Weber novels.

D. R. Cantrell

Entertaining, but there's not much else going for it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 October 2011

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There's an awful lot wrong with this book. To start with, the setup of an alien survey of Earth done several hundred years ago, and then the invasion in the present having the crap kicked out of it because human technology evolved "unnaturally fast" has been done before, by Harry Turtledove - and as surprising as this may be, Turtledove did it better: Turtledove's aliens have far more of a back-story and they behave more like rational beings. Then all too often the book devolves into spec sheets for various weapons. There's at least a hint of Jerry Ahern's so-awful-you-have-to-keep-reading "The Survivalist" series in some of the characters. And the ending, where Vlad The Impaler and his army of vampires kills all the aliens in a couple of nights is not only stupid, it's badly executed too. Weber's vampires are so ludicrously powerful as to make what little we get of Dracula's back-story implausible.

The idea of having the undead rise up in defence of Earth - in defence of their hunting preserve - is not a bad one, but the execution is awful.

On the plus side, Weber knows how to keep you turning the pages, and it is at least entertaining. But one to get second-hand for pennies and read once, I think, no more.

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