Legion

Today I'm going review the Novella "Legion" by Brandon Sanderson. My only beef with this book is that it was too short. Of course it is going to be since it's a Novella. At the end of it I was craving more and more. According to Peter Ahlstrom who is Brandon Sanderson's personal editorial assistant there is nothing officially stated about sequels, but if Sanderson decided to write them they would be around 30 thousand words. Also Lions gate has shown interest about making Legion into a TV series. This would be a super cool show after reading it. This was all stated on Sanderson's Facebook page.

Stephen Leeds AKA "Legion" takes the spot light in this novella. He is called Legion by others because Leeds has his own personal set of hallucinations that he talks with openly around others, so everyone naturally thinks he's a little loopy. Interesting thing about these people he sees and speaks with, they all have their own personal set of skills and talents that Leeds draws upon when he needs help with off end jobs he takes from people, he is kind of a private eye detective but not in the official sense. Some of his hallucinations a historian, ex-navy seal, therapist, linguist, master forger are just a few of the many talent "Aspects" that follow him around Aspects is what Leeds likes to call them.

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In the story Leeds is approached by a company wanting him to find a stolen camera that can take pictures of the past. For instance they showed Leeds a picture of George Washington shaving, which is crazy because cameras hadn't been invented yet. The camera was stolen by the inventor. You latter find out that the inventor, a scientist who is a devout Catholic and has received so much grief and persecution for being both at the same time wanted to take a picture of the resurrected Jesus Christ to prove once and for all that it is all real. So Leeds with his Aspects hunt down the inventor to find out he has been taken by an extremist group that wants the camera for their own plans. Since it is a novella everything gets tired up pretty quick. They find the inventor who ends up dying and the camera gets destroyed, but the film was preserved enough to print one picture. It was of Jesus Christ, but at the wrong time, it was before he died. The cool thing was that Jesus was looking straight at the camera, like he knew it was there 2000 years later. Leeds returns home and a new aspect shows up who is a scientist to help him rebuild the camera. Maybe.

So I really hope more books are written because this could simple become an awesome book series.