✍️ Written by: RR Haywood
🏷️ Genre: Sci-fi
🗓️ Published: 02 July 2025
📄 Pages: 726
🧐 My rating: ★★★★☆ (4 stars)
For nearly two days, every human on Earth has been frozen by Delio’s brutal Phase One. Sunstroke, rats, and rot are setting in. In London, Alfie and his fractured team must cross a collapsing UK to reach the European kill switch. In New York, Tripal races toward Site 26A, the only other way to stop the system.
But something is wrong. Phase One hasn’t progressed, and time is running out. What was meant to save humanity now risks destroying it. As Alfie and Tripal push deeper into chaos, nothing is what it seems. And with every step, a darker question rises: is Delio still in control?
I've read a few of Haywood's books at this point, and generally I really enjoy them. Delio Phase Two was no different. It takes place right after the first book, Phase One where Delio continues to progress her plan to control the human race. The plot is gripping, the characters are interesting, and Haywood's dark British humour often got a rise out of me.
However...
The last few chapters of the book let it down. I won't go into detail about what happens in the end, but suffice to say it took some of the shine off the rest of the book for me.
Now, just to be clear, the rest of the story was still good enough for me to give this 4/5 stars, but had the ending been better, it would have been an easy 5 stars.
I'm not sure if Haywood is planning to do a 3rd book in this series, and it's really not clear from how Phase Two ends, either. If he does, I'll definitely read it. I just hope the ending is better next time.