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    Dark Light: Dawn: A Novel

    By Jon Land

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    From author Jon Land and creator Fabrizio Boccardi comes Dark Light: Dawn, a heart-pounding supernatural thriller about a deadly, global epidemic and the man who holds the power to either save the world or destroy it.

    Since the dawn of time good and evil have challenged the free will of man. Now the time has come for one man to choose for all human kind.

    With an uncanny ability to survive any combat situation, Max Younger has built a heroic life for himself as a Navy SEAL. That is, until a rogue rescue operation plunges him back into a past he thought he’d escaped forever.

    Waiting for him back home in New York are terrible, long-hidden truths rooted in the tragic death of his father. But the origin of those truths lie even further back than that, and Max finds himself ensnared in a sinister plot involving nothing less than the biblical apocalypse.

    The explosive conflagration of events reunites him with the only woman he ever loved: Victoria Tanoury a brilliant infectious disease specialist working for the World Health Organization, who’s on the front lines in a battle to stop the spread of a deadly pestilence threatening the planet. Max’s reunion with Vicky comes amid a combat mission, in which their dual quests merge in a desperate fight for survival against forces of unspeakable evil.

    Across the globe, inexplicably diabolic events are rising, sparked by a fearsome plan to visit the End of Days upon civilization in horrific form, as the lines between science and superstition become increasingly blurred. Max finds himself mired in a titanic struggle within his own soul, between love and hate, unsure whether his ultimate fate is to help fight the evil. . . or embrace it in the shadow of the Dawn of a Dark Light.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateAug 1, 2017
    ISBN9780765397782
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    Dark Light: Dawn: A Novel
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    Jon Land

    Jon Land is the USA Today bestselling author of more than fifty books, over ten of which feature Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong. The critically acclaimed series has won more than a dozen awards, including the 2019 International Book Award for Best Thriller for Strong as Steel. He is also the author of Chasing the Dragon, a detailed account of the War on Drugs written with one of the most celebrated DEA agents of all time. A graduate of Brown University, Land lives in Providence, Rhode Island and received the 2019 Rhode Island Authors Legacy Award for his lifetime of literary achievements.

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    • 4/5
      A very imaginative and idiosyncratic universe, with deep political motivations and fascinating ideas of gender. The sober and humourless discussions can get a bit much at times but otherwise it's an enjoyable read.
    • 4/5
      the characters are kind of thin, I don't really know what's going, but I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
    • 5/5
      When the human-crewed spaceship from Mingulay, the Bright Star, arrives at Croatan, it triggers social and political upheaval. And when the Bright Star's crew fly out to an asteroid to communicate with the gods, they find out more about the gods' intentions in setting up the Second Sphere."Dark Light" was even more exciting and faster-moving than "Cosmonaut Keep", and has set the scene for a dramatic conclusion to the trilogy in "Engine City".
    • 4/5
      In the second book of the Engines of Light series the immortal Earthlings travel to a new planet in the Second Sphere to bring political and economical upheaval to it. Fast pacing and mostly interesting...
    • 3/5
      I especially loved when gender stereotypes were broken. In one of the societies the books follow, someone is a child or a woman until they pass the test and become a man, which is defined as communing with the gods and hunting. So a young, skilled man remains a woman because he won't take the test, and some women act as men and are called men -- and this is reflected in the sexual situations in the book too. Another thing I didn't care for was the shifting tense parts of the book were written in -- I just flipped through Dark Light and spotted the change shifting from past to present to past again over the course of a few pages. But when I was actually reading it, I barely noticed that. Over the course of the books, alliances shift and change until you don't know who is on whose side -- or whether it really matters.
    • 4/5
      The second book in this series is more similar to the star fraction series of books. More political and urban oriented than the first book. I was a little dissapointed that it kind of dropped two of the characters from the first book and focussed on new characters but in hindsight now I like it that there was some variation. I get the impression that all of the characters will make more appearances in the third book which I'm about to start on.Anyway, if you like Ken Macleod's other books then this is more of the same. Again, the stand out stuff was even more mixing of technology from different era's of human history. A new element was the introduction to a group of tribal people and some pretty funny stuff around their sexuality.I can't wait to read the last book now and see where it's all headed. I have a bit of an idea - some of it is just a logical progression but I'm sure there'll be a few interesting pot-holes along the way.
    • 3/5
      Sequels are always difficult to write: you want to be fresh yet keep your fans satisfied. MacLeod seems to pull a George Lucas, writing the second book of the "Engines of Light" series only to fill the gap from the better "Cosmonaut's Keep" and the finishing "Engine City". I found "Dark Light" a bit of a let down; the plot and meat of the story could have been told in half the space, that other half filled with stoddy, dated political explorations...it took me twice as long to read this book than I would have normally, finding myself putting the book down mid-chapter as I lost interest.Another complaint: two of the main characters (and most interesting) also disappear inexplicably from the first quarter of the book, just reappear in the denouement. There is only a throwaway line of where they were and their inactivity through this period was completely out of character.Here's hoping the third and final installment is more of a page-turner.
    • 4/5
      Much better than the first book in this series. Both a page turner, and with depth and intrigue
    • 3/5
      Once I figured out the premise of this book, It was a very enjoyable book. Unfortunately, this is the second in the series, and it picks up exactly where the first left off, and it ends quite abruptly. It feels more like the middle part of a 3 part novel, rather than 3 books in a series.The premise is quite intriguing - Intelligence is quite common in the universe, but lives in a from that is almost God-like. Humane like intelligence is quite rare, and is at the mercy of the "Gods" I didn't read the first book so am not sure how the humans from Earth got to the Second Plane, that is, worlds planted by different groups of humanity in different historical ages. Also, there are a number of different species that originated from Earth but evolved on a different planet forming new intelligence. Travel between planets is possible, but it still is constrained to the speed of light. As a result, big trader ships go from world to world, where decades or centuries pass since the last visit. This is the story of the crew of the Brightstar, The original ship from earth and the first ship created by humanity and not sanctioned by the Gods. In an attempt to recreate spacesuits that have crumbled in the eons since the Earthmen came to the Second Sphere, they meet a culture that does not use metal, but have knowledge to create an important resin.The world building is quite amazing, with each culture described vividly and believably. The characters are also well written, although without the knowing them from the first book, they once in awhile blended together.I highly recommend this book, but only if you read the first book first. This book ends quite abruptly, so you might want to pick up all three books before starting this series. If I had read the first story, my review would have been higher. The first third of the book was a bit confusing.
    • 4/5
      I've not read the prequel to this (and didn't know there was one til partway into the book), which judging from the other reviews was a good thing. I adored his exploration of gender construction and fluidity, and that he had queer and trans characters included in an organic way. & I'm interested in his ideas about deity. I loved the idea that a guy from Russia was still a die-hard socialist hundreds of years later, and similarly the anarchist, but the political machinations drug on too much for me. I am skeptical that 2 guys could wreak as much havoc as they did so quickly, but I suppose that it's feasible that they'd both become really good organizers in all that time, and I was engrossed enough in the story that I could handwave that away. I was also interested in the ethical questions in living much, much longer than other folks and in space travel meaning some folks drop in on a planet every hundred years, but more in the questions raised than the answers in the book. Gail and the Heathens were the best part of the book for me, so I'm not sure what I'll think about the other books in the trilogy, but I do plan to check them out.
    • 4/5
      This book is the second in the trilogy 'Engines of Light'; it certainly cannot stand on its own, requiring the reader to be reasonably familiar with the events of the first novel, 'Cosmonaut Keep'. A number of reviewers have commented that they feel it suffers from 'middle book syndrome', wherein nothing much happens at considerable length to fulfil the requirement for a trilogy to have a Middle. I'm not so sure about that. This certainly isn't identikit space opera fare; as such, I suspect some people are seeing "Book Two" on the cover and putting their poor reaction to the story down to middle book syndrome.The thing is this: Ken Macleod has not written a conventional space opera. In book one, we were introduced to the Second Sphere, a distant star system populated by a mix of humans and evolved creatures whose origin was Earth but whose ancestors were all abducted from this world in prehistoric times by alien superbeings, for reasons as yet undiscovered. Also in the Second Sphere are the descendents of the crew of the first human starship to leave Earth. Some of those descendents aren't; a number of the original crew appear to have acquired great longevity. Trade between the worlds ot the Second Sphere is conducted by faster-than-light starships, but having an ftl drive does not excuse those who travel from system to system from the inconveniences of relativistic star flight; centuries can pass between starship visits. Traders' ships are piloted by krakens, one of the evolved ancient species abducted from Earth. Humans are not permitted starflight - until the cosmonaut familiies of the world of Mingulay rediscover its secrets and recommission the only human starship, the Bright Star, to travel to nearby worlds to try to find Answers to all the Big Questions.'Cosmoinaut Keep' was written as one of Macleod's stranded narratives, with two different stories at two different times and places intertwined and coming together at the end (although the reader has to infer this). But that bringing together of the strands means that there is only a single story going forward; the arrival of the Bright Star at the world of Croatan, and the impact that arrival has on local politics and the lives of some of its inhabitants.In the course of the story, the crew of the Bright Star communicate with two of the godlike entities that can be found around each of the inhabited worlds. What they find spurs them to action; and that action forces change on the inhabitants of Croatan. Those inhabitants have a society divided between an urban, technologically savvy (but roughly mid-20th Century level) society, inhabiting one major, industrialised city; and an isolated, roughly Celtic level society descended from transplanted prehistoric humans who have no access to metals but have evolved a society and an econonic niche based on handicrafts and the manufacture of gliders and sophisticated hot-air balloons. This second society also has a different take on issues of gender identity and assignation. Whether an individual in this society identifies (or is identified) as male or female is dependant on role and status, and not on biology. Macleod plays with these ideas in a very easy way.The second half of the novel is taken up with the cosmonauts' reactions to what they learn from the planetary superbeings and how they play out those reactions against the political backdrop of Croatan. We are looking here at two characters who are skilled political organisers. It's a Ken Macleod novel, so of course there's radical politics in it, though once more he rings the changes on political organisation and actually shows that organisation in action on the ground.At the end of the novel, the lives of the POV characters on Croatan are changed. In that, this isn't a typical 'middle book'. At the same time, the characters who came along from 'Cosmonaut Keep' have changed, learnt, and made their decisions about how they take matters forward. There is the continuity of the trilogy. The plot of events on Croatan is self-contained, though I said at the outset that you need to have read 'Cosmonaut Keep' and that remains true because without it, the reader will not understand the motivations of the cosmonaut characters. But the world-building is well handled, and the political machinations have their own momentum.One criticism: two characters from the first book, who featured fairly heavily in it, are sent off to a university laboratory to Do Important Sciency Things and do not reappear until the end of the novel. It may be that this book didn't need them but that they will be needed in the third volume; but their sidelining is irritatingly obvious.So, a book which confounds those expecting the obvious. The thrid book promises more encounters with the godlike aliens.