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A review by isabellarobinson7
Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds by Brandon Sanderson
5.0
Rating: 5 stars
These stories truly show what a versatile writer Sanderson really is. I love this concept. It's so simple yet so intricate and somehow manages to take a somewhat common trope (that being making "illness" kind of a "superpower") and make it completely new. The novellas are always the perfect length, not giving too much information about pointless things and over explaining everything to increase page count, and end right when they should. In a way, I think Legion is actually a great place to start with Sanderson, because you don't have the giant commitment of the Cosmere to worry about, nor is the size completely overwhelming. You don't need to know anything about the premise of these novellas, or anything about Sanderson in general, just these opening lines:
These stories truly show what a versatile writer Sanderson really is. I love this concept. It's so simple yet so intricate and somehow manages to take a somewhat common trope (that being making "illness" kind of a "superpower") and make it completely new. The novellas are always the perfect length, not giving too much information about pointless things and over explaining everything to increase page count, and end right when they should. In a way, I think Legion is actually a great place to start with Sanderson, because you don't have the giant commitment of the Cosmere to worry about, nor is the size completely overwhelming. You don't need to know anything about the premise of these novellas, or anything about Sanderson in general, just these opening lines:
My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.I mean, is that one hell of a hook or what?! Legion is criminally underrated, and something needs to be done about that.