Legion: Lies of the Beholder

by Brandon Sanderson
148 pgs  (Legion series #3)

Legion: Lies of the Beholder is the third and final installment in Brandon Sanderson's series of short novellas featuring Stephen Leeds, a brilliant (and possibly schizophrenic) man, whose unique mental condition allows him to create and interact with multiple personalities, each of which possesses a highly-specialized expertise or skill set, which he refers to as his "aspects."

This time around Leeds has to deal with two crises happening in his life simultaneously. The first is the disappearance of Armando, one of his aspects. The second occurs when Sandra, a woman from his past who shares Leeds's condition, and who taught him how to live with it by creating his aspects, contacts him with a cry for help.

All three stories in the series are fantastic, fun, quick reads. But for me, the best part of each of them was their overarching concept. I read them separately as they were each published, but all three just came out together in the omnibus Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds.

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆