Middle School

It’s been a few months since XR_935 met Emma, a human girl who wasn’t supposed to exist. Robots thought they’d eliminated all humans, but some have survived all these years. Now, robots and humans live side by side, and the world is so much better for it. They’ve formed a new society, living together as equals.
Even if XR doesn’t always understand humans, it is impressed by their creativity and ingenuity, especially considering all the terrible things that robots did to humans all those years ago. But some humans are not so quick to forgive. A group known as the Machine Breakers has emerged. They won’t stop until they’ve destroyed every robot on earth and any human who stands in their way. Can XR and Emma stop them? Or could this be the end of the robots and the world as they know it?

This book took me completely by surprise. I was not expecting a sequel to “The Last Human.” I love that book. Like the first book, the chapters are short and numbered in binary.

The Machine Breakers are terrorists who want to ‘cleanse the Earth of robots.’ They are a representation of everything the robots originally wanted to destroy. They let their anger and hatred fester into violent acts against robots and their fellow humans. In retrospect, it makes sense that some humans would be upset with robots after hiding underground from them for decades. But that doesn’t justify the Machine Breakers’ actions.

But enough about them.

I’m happy to be reading from XR’s robotic perspective again. I love Ceeron’s sense of humor and SkD’s emoji language.

XR points out multiple times how humans are illogical and let their emotions get the best of them, which is true. It annoys me so much when characters waste time arguing or talking about their feelings in the middle of a dangerous or time-sensitive situation. An occurrence that does happen in the story.

I mentioned in my last review that The Last Human is being developed into a movie. That news was made back in 2019. When or if this book will be made into a movie, I have no idea. I do have my fingers crossed for a third book. It might take another five years, but I don’t mind waiting.