Finished Darkness of the Light (by Peter David) last night. That’s two books in four days, for an average of two days per book. The way I figure it, since I started in the Read 100 challenge on the thirteenth, I need to average about 3.52 days per book, so I’m doing pretty well.

Darkness of the Light was pretty much typical Peter David. I’m not sure if it counts as Science Fiction or Fantasy; it seems to be about Earth many, many years after it was overrun by twelve races from an alternate dimension. However, since those races are mythological races from ancient tales (the Oculars are cyclopses(?), Trulls are Trolls, etc.), and the tone of the story is mostly fantasy (if one ignores the presence of cars). Either way, it was very good.

As one can always expect from PAD, the story has plenty of puns and jokes based on literal interpretations of various figures of speech. There are also plenty of interesting plot twists. Unfortunately, there are still two more books in the series (to my knowledge, these haven’t been published yet), and the book’s end feels very unfinished.

I’m looking forward to the rest of the story.

My next book is Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis.