What if your mind became your worst enemy?
Struggling with evolving psychic abilities, seventeen-year-old Anna Morgan and her equally exceptional friends are on the run from the ruthless Graham Cregg, leader of a covert operation known as the Delphi Project. Cregg has already killed repeatedly to test Anna’s ability. Now, he and his father, a presidential contender, will stop at nothing to recapture the Delphi adepts, whom they see as weapons to be controlled – or destroyed.
Navigating an increasingly hostile landscape, Anna and her friends form a resistance to rescue those still in the Creggs’ fatal grip. As more gifted kids vanish and public awareness of the Delphi Project grows, so does the opinion that getting rid of the adepts may be a necessary evil.
Yet even as they face off against cold-blooded killers, government operatives, and a public intensely afraid of their psychic powers, the greatest threat to Anna and the resistance may come from within themselves – and their own mysterious abilities could spell their ultimate downfall.
The Delphi Resistance is the second book in the Delphi Trilogy by Rysa Walker. The trilogy follows Anna Morgan and her foster brother, Tadeo, as they are catapulted into political intrigue, conspiracies, and psychics. Anna assumed she was the only special one out there, able to communicate with the dead as they inhabit her body, but because of the Delphi Program, she learns more than she expected.
I read the first book, The Delphi Effect, years ago, and I believe I wrote a review here at the time. However, it wasn’t until recently that I was able to read the rest of the trilogy. Rysa Walker has been one of my favorite authors since reading her time-travel series, The Chronos Files. When I picked up The Delphi Effect, it was clear that I was going to find another series to love.
Though it took me a while to read the second book, I chose to relisten to the first one before taking on The Delphi Resistance. Surprisingly, I didn’t forget much, but I’m glad I listened nonetheless. The Delphi Resistance starts where The Delphi Effect ended. Anna and Deo are on the run with Aaron and Taylor as they are trying to find other Adepts.
It is explained in the first book that the Adepts are a group of people who originated from experimentation the government conducted on people to find and hone psychic abilities. Think MK Ultra and the men who stare at goats. In The Delphi Resistance, we learn more about Adepts and how they came to be. We see more abilities, more children, and more political dynamics that started to hit certain parts of my brain.
Let’s be clear, this isn’t a series that is a direct response to the current political climate. In fact, I believe it was written during Trump’s first administration. BUT, I couldn’t help but feel like there was some correlation between the presidential campaign described in The Delphi Resistance and today’s current administration. It was a weird feeling, but it didn’t stop me from going deeper into the story.
I’d love to go further into explaining what goes on, but the story beats are all intricately designed to play off one another. To spoil one would mean I would have to unravel the whole story for you, and I’m not willing to do that. For everyone who knows me, spoilers don’t bother me. I love them and actively tell people a spoiler. It’s when I don’t that tells you how much I loved a book or series.
And this isn’t a book I’m willing to spoil. Seriously, I only gave it a four because the last in the trilogy made me rewind and cry (which is an instant five-star for me), but that’s a review you’ll have to read later. If anything, this has me wanting to read more from Rysa Walker. It’s a good thing I do have more of her books.
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