Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I'm a dedicated HH fan, and also a fan of many of Ringo's alien invasion books. when Weber took a stab at the story idea I read along as the story was posted at the bar and at 5th imperium. I felt a sense of satisfaction and savage glee when chapter 12 rolled around and earth hits back. The F-22 attack was what sold me, I had to get the book. I envisioned a desperate battle against overwhelming odds, with humanity banding together and fighting back. The F-22's and other aircraft hiding out and running guerilla campaigns against the alien invaders like in the Terminator books. I recieved the book yesterday afternoon and it only took me a couple hours to read it. (The chapters are only a couple pages each) Here I was thinking he'd sneak a nuke into a LZ, maybe use a nuclear sub, capture some alien tech and reverse engineer some of it... Then it went all downhill from there. I can see his point, take out long distance communications along with every leader and you knock out C&C coordination for guerilla groups. The orbital retaliation strikes is a nice twist, and people being people panic setting in and flooding the countryside.. yeah that make sense. That and the whole exploring of human psychology from the invader's side I can get. What bothered me was there was only a token exploration of the alien tech by the humans. Nothing is done with it. Then as I got closer and closer to the end and the climax built I was excited when humanity started hitting back totally out of the blue. Bases being taken down by ghosts. Who were theses super soldiers? Robinson and a select group of special forces using Darpa weapons? Aliens like the invaders were thinking? The twist (and boy is it a doozy) is out of left field. FAAAAR out of left field and a terrible one at that. He had hinted about it earlier, but I had dismissed it. It totally ticked me off when I finally figured it out. Terrible, just terrible. Right out of the pages of Anne Rice or Twighlight. I think the whole vampire thing is a little too played out. Sigh The ending did have shadows of another book series by another author. that too had alien dog people and vamps. Nasty. If you've got to read it, I suggest borrowing a copy from your library first.