[JohnStrangeII]

I found it almost unreadable, and I can tolerate a lot. Maybe something gets lost with the translation. As for the worst, I forgot the author's name. It was a military sci fi novel with an alien invasion theme, so you'd expect it to be bad. However, I love the topic and was willing to tolerate the focus on right wing US prepping. I'm fine with all of that, but, SPOILER AHEAD: The problem of the novel was that the fight was pretty much unwinnable, so in the end the author simply just introduced vampires who allied with the paramilitary preppers and swiftly eliminated all aliens in the last chapter. That was by far the worst plot I've ever seen.

[a_bonobo]

Sounds like David Weber's Out Of The Dark

[ralfd]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Dark_(Weber_novel)

> With nearly every Shongairi base on Earth destroyed, Thikair orders his remaining forces off the planet, while planning to outright destroy Earth from orbit. However, as the last fleeing units reach their ships, the Shongairi dreadnoughts suddenly destroy the rest of the warships, all but one. Thikair is confronted on his own ship by same enemy that had destroyed the bases and smashed his fleet: vampires, who need no air to breathe, and can travel as mist.

> Their leader, Mircea Basarab, is actually the immortal Vlad the Impaler, whom humans remember as Dracula. He and his kind have been hibernating, and kept hidden before the Shongairi's arrival forced them to "protect" the people of Earth by creating more vampires and build an army to eliminate the Shongairi. Thikair is told that the hijacked dreadnoughts are being sent to each of the Shongairi worlds to destroy their Empire. Thikair is slain by one of the vampires, Stephen Buchevsky, whose human family was killed by the initial bombardment. Humanity now possesses Shongairi and Hegemony technology from the Shongairi industrial ships, and is fully united under the newly established Terran Empire, becoming a mighty adversary to the Hegemony which had so casually sent the invaders against and innocent and unsuspecting world.

Haha!