Legion: Skin Deep

I am a huge fan Sanderson's prose which manages to be both witty and tense at the same time. In Legion, Sanderson takes the interesting concept of a mental disease as a form of super power. The super sleuthing through multiple hallucinations is an interesting plot device. I can see this novella working well as the basis for a tv series! It has echoes of Joss Whedon's Doll House in its structure.

Ultimately I am looking forward to continuing the series. The premise opens up plenty of interesting possibilities and the novella format means they are presented in nice bite size chunks.

I was excited to continue the story of Steve and his ‘aspects' in this second Legion novella, and I certainly enjoyed the story and characters once again, but thought that the payoff wasn't quite as good as the first one. Don't get me wrong, it is still definitely worth reading and right up until the end I was invested and interested in everything that was happening, but when I got to the end, I guess I expected something a little more than I got. Not to mention I was hoping there would be more to the end of the last one explained in this volume and it never was. Despite those quibbles, it is still quite a good short story full of mystery and again some interesting concepts, leaving behind some of the more ‘magical' stuff that Sanderson is known for and going for something a little more sci-fi and techy was actually a breath of fresh air. Overall worthwile if you enjoyed the first one and of course anything by Brandon Sanderson, even when it doesn't quite meet all your expectations, is still pretty darn good.