This is one of the few times that I've read a successive book without reading the previous. Audible had Legion available for free and being somewhat of a Sanderson fan I scooped it up. I had heard of the first one - both of my parents had read it, but I didn't know much about it. Upon talking to my mother and learning that you didn't need to read the first to enjoy the second, I listened to it. I'm glad I did. Here is a link for the Audible page for the book. It was narrated by Oliver Wyman, who also did the Monster Hunter books by Corriea. He did a fantastic job, although I will say that his homicidal killer voice from Monster Hunter Nemesis and his history expect voice from Legion: Skin Deep sounded kind of similar. It was not distracting and I enjoyed the reading very much.
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Plot: Stephan Leeds, a.k.a. Legion, is an expert. On anything he puts his mind to. And whenever he points his mind to learning something new he gets a new "aspect" in his imagination. He knows his aspects aren't real and that only he can see them. He knows that the whole situation makes him look like he has multiple personality disorder, or schizophrenia, or a myriad of other mental illnesses, but he also knows that he's not crazy. At least not any more than anyone else. What it makes him is a very effective problem solver. The problem he has been asked to solve now is to recover a dead body that has gone missing. It's not the body itself that is important, but rather what it contains. The body, when it was alive, worked for a company that had developed a way to plant data into human cells. The company is worried that whoever took the body will be able to extract the information that the employee undoubtedly, um, secreted about his person before he died. It appears that dead men can tell tales and the story this body tells could be disastrous.
My personal favorites: Leeds is a great character and his multiple aspects were a great addition to the cast. In some ways the set up reminded me of The Hollow City, but not in a "who's real and who's not" way. The writing was crisp and the pacing was excellent. This is a novella, so significantly shorter than what Sanderson usually writes. He clearly demonstrates thought that he is good at both long and short form.
Considerations: There is nothing in this story that would cause me to shy away from recommending it to anyone. The subject may be over the head of middle grade or some young adults, but there is very little violence (mostly scuffling), very limited language (one of the aspects is a prude who constantly censures people), and no sensuality. Like The Emperor's Soul this novella is something that just about anybody can enjoy very easily.
I don't know if it is still available for free. If it is, I would highly recommend picking it up. If it's not - I still highly recommend it. The total length was just about 4 and half hours.
Plot: Stephan Leeds, a.k.a. Legion, is an expert. On anything he puts his mind to. And whenever he points his mind to learning something new he gets a new "aspect" in his imagination. He knows his aspects aren't real and that only he can see them. He knows that the whole situation makes him look like he has multiple personality disorder, or schizophrenia, or a myriad of other mental illnesses, but he also knows that he's not crazy. At least not any more than anyone else. What it makes him is a very effective problem solver. The problem he has been asked to solve now is to recover a dead body that has gone missing. It's not the body itself that is important, but rather what it contains. The body, when it was alive, worked for a company that had developed a way to plant data into human cells. The company is worried that whoever took the body will be able to extract the information that the employee undoubtedly, um, secreted about his person before he died. It appears that dead men can tell tales and the story this body tells could be disastrous.My personal favorites: Leeds is a great character and his multiple aspects were a great addition to the cast. In some ways the set up reminded me of The Hollow City, but not in a "who's real and who's not" way. The writing was crisp and the pacing was excellent. This is a novella, so significantly shorter than what Sanderson usually writes. He clearly demonstrates thought that he is good at both long and short form.
Considerations: There is nothing in this story that would cause me to shy away from recommending it to anyone. The subject may be over the head of middle grade or some young adults, but there is very little violence (mostly scuffling), very limited language (one of the aspects is a prude who constantly censures people), and no sensuality. Like The Emperor's Soul this novella is something that just about anybody can enjoy very easily.
I don't know if it is still available for free. If it is, I would highly recommend picking it up. If it's not - I still highly recommend it. The total length was just about 4 and half hours.
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