Legion: Skin Deep
2012 • 88 pages
Ratings116
Average rating4
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Ratings116
Average rating4
**A STORY IN THREE LIFE-SHATTERING ACTS.**
INCLUDES THE NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED *LEGION: LIES OF THE BEHOLDER*.
Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's his hallucinations who are mad.
A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people--Stephen calls them aspects--to hold and manifest the information. Wherever he goes, he is joined by a team of imaginary experts to give advice, interpretation, and explanation. He uses them to solve problems...for a price.
His brain is getting a little crowded and the aspects have a tendency of taking on lives of their own. When a company hires him to recover stolen property--a camera that can allegedly take pictures of the past--Stephen finds himself in an adventure crossing oceans and fighting terrorists. What he discovers may upend the foundation of three major world religions--and, perhaps, give him a vital clue into the true nature of his aspects.
*Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds* includes the novellas *Legion* and *Legion: Skin Deep*, published together for the first time, as well as the brand-new, shocking finale to Stephen Leeds' story, *Lies of the Beholder*.
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7 primary books10 released booksLegion is a 10-book series with 7 primary works first released in 1993 with contributions by William C. Dietz, Brandon Sanderson, and 4 others.
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I liked this. If you want to know what the book's about, then read the other reviews. They will tell you the story. Anyway, it's a good book. I enjoyed it!
I am a huge fan Sanderson's prose which manages to be both witty and tense at the same time. In Legion, Sanderson takes the interesting concept of a mental disease as a form of super power. The super sleuthing through multiple hallucinations is an interesting plot device. I can see this novella working well as the basis for a tv series! It has echoes of Joss Whedon's Doll House in its structure.
Ultimately I am looking forward to continuing the series. The premise opens up plenty of interesting possibilities and the novella format means they are presented in nice bite size chunks.
Stephen Leeds is an amazing character. I loved every story, but especially the ending. It just made too much sense.
4.5 stelle
sono proprio curiosa di sapere come continuerà la storia :)
