Invasion by Mercedes Lackey
I wish I hadn’t discovered before reading this book that it was based on a podcast, or that that podcast was based on a game. I haven’t had good experiences with books based on games. The Assassins Creed games are fantastic, the books are painfully awful. Please, steer well clear from them of you can. Because I knew this story had been told as a podcast I heard it in my head being read by overly dramatic voice actors. It took me a long while to forget that and let the characters own voices come out. Once I did I started enjoying the book. The first few chapters are just an introduction to the characters and are quite slow. The chapter headings are counting us down to something and I guess the title of the book makes it pretty obvious what that is. When the invasion hits is when this book hits its stride. Things get interesting and we get to see what these meta-humans are really made of. Metaphorically, not literally. Literally they are made of the same things we are (<a hre