Architect

Last Resistance, Book 3

By: Hayley Stone

Narrated by: Kate Reading

To create a new world, everything in the old one must die.

Rhona Long is no one’s commander anymore.

Out in the cold after a rescue mission gone wrong, Rhona moves forward with her own desperate strategy to stop the machines - only now she must do it without the resources of McKinley base, currently occupied by a hostile power.

But when Rhona encounters a group of machine reformers and learns a devastating truth about the higher echelon’s endgame, she must decide whether to finish what her predecessor started by destroying the brilliant artificial life con-trolling the machines - or do the unthinkable by saving it.

Join ex-commander Rhona Long as she faces off against the machines and their malicious A.I. overlord to decide humanity’s fate in this epic conclusion to the Last Resistance Series.

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The hows and the whys still eluded me

“The harder you throw yourself at something, the harder that something’s going to push back.”
Book 3 branches out on tangents as multiple POVs appear and the story backtracks and circles back. Meanwhile, a lingering frustration was the absence of an antagonist beyond the nebulous Echelon.
Why did the Echelon begin the apocalypse? What was the point of the cloning and experimentation?
How did Rhona’s connections work? So many questions and only some answers that I’m not sure
I really understood. But, was I not entertained? I upped my rating from the last book purely based on bonus points for the original twists and interesting ending.