Stephen slowly unveils the mystery as you go - but by the end I'm drawn in and fully invested. Usually with Sanderson books I am quite confused early on by being bombarded with so many new concepts all at once. I caught on to the characters and story pretty quickly. While I usually find short stories hard to wrap my head around – by the time I have committed the characters to memory the story is nearly over – I didn't have that issue here. What I didn’t know was that it was further subdivided into three novellas. I also knew it was a smaller story - by Sanderson standards. I knew going in this wasn’t part of the Cosmere. It’s just really good fiction - and a very original and fun idea for him to explore. The psychology underlying Stephen’s condition really isn’t SciFi either. Not pure SciFi… kind of blurring the genre boundaries like he does in the second ‘Mistborn’ era. A few pages in and I was like… “ Ah - he’s exploring fantastical SciFi ideas instead". I was curious how I would enjoy his writing without the backdrop of his fantastical magic systems…. This is my eleventh Sanderson, but my first non-Cosmere Sanderson. Where does he get all these brilliant ideas? Maybe he has his own aspects to help him out? □ I’m pretty sure Brandon knows what he’s talking about. Ok… I guess I should defer to the best selling brilliant author’s opinion as opposed to me… the well-read book fan, but seldom-read GR reviewer. Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds… or as I kept thinking of it… Legion: The Many Aspects of Stephen Leeds… I dunno - I think mine’s punchier.
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