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A review by faileskye
Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds by Brandon Sanderson
3.0
Two great novellas and one that is so atrocious that I will never figure out how I gathered enough willpower to listen to it.
The first two novellas in this omnibus are the kinds of stories that make me wonder why Sanderson does these long, sprawling epics when he is so much better at the more focused and microscale stories. In the first novella, we get a short thriller with a bit of religion and a bit of the mystical in it. In the second novella, we get a longer mystery of a missing body and bleeding edge technology, literally.
These two are definitely worth the price of admission; it’s just that the third book is like a surtax of pain. You need it to finish out the overall story… kind of. Honestly, it doesn’t even really finish up Stephen’s story, contrary to what Stephenson says in the introduction. It is cliché, unsatisfying, illogical, and overall just poorly written. I expect much more from a favorite author of mine and it’s lead me to the point that I’m worried this may be a new trend with him.
So I certainly recommend the first two novellas, they alone are probably worth you picking up this omnibus for. And hey, maybe you’ll like the third one more than me?
The first two novellas in this omnibus are the kinds of stories that make me wonder why Sanderson does these long, sprawling epics when he is so much better at the more focused and microscale stories. In the first novella, we get a short thriller with a bit of religion and a bit of the mystical in it. In the second novella, we get a longer mystery of a missing body and bleeding edge technology, literally.
These two are definitely worth the price of admission; it’s just that the third book is like a surtax of pain. You need it to finish out the overall story… kind of. Honestly, it doesn’t even really finish up Stephen’s story, contrary to what Stephenson says in the introduction. It is cliché, unsatisfying, illogical, and overall just poorly written. I expect much more from a favorite author of mine and it’s lead me to the point that I’m worried this may be a new trend with him.
So I certainly recommend the first two novellas, they alone are probably worth you picking up this omnibus for. And hey, maybe you’ll like the third one more than me?