Legion: Skin Deep

Brandon Sanderson

Nov 2014 · Legion Book 2 · Sold by Dragonsteel, LLC

About this ebook

Now also available in the complete collection Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Stephen Leeds is back in a new, double-length novella that Library Journal says has "the pulse of a thriller and the hook of a fascinating hero balancing on the edge of psychosis."

It's not his own genius that Stephen Leeds gets hired for. Clients want to tap into the imaginary experts that populate his mind—and it's getting a bit crowded in there.

Now Stephen and his internal team of "aspects" have been hired to track down a stolen corpse—but it's not the corpse that's important, it's what the corpse knows. The biotechnology company he worked for believes he encoded top-secret information in his DNA before he died, and if it falls into the wrong hands, that will mean disaster.

Meanwhile, Stephen's uneasy peace with his own hallucinations is beginning to fray at the edges, as he strives to understand how one of them could possibly have used Stephen's hand to shoot a real gun during the previous case. And some of those hallucinations think they know better than Stephen just how many aspects his mind should make room for. How long will he be able to hold himself together?

Ratings and reviews

Sanderson has yet to write a book I haven't loved. Legion and Skin Deep are different from his epic fantasy stuff. But you still have this sense of "there is something much bigger going on here..."

I really like Sanderson, he's one of my favorite authors and his worlds are complex and amazing. But, this isn't his greatest. It's still very good, but it's almost being to be a longer book with more of the world explored and more of his abilities explored. I guess what I'm saying is I liked it, but I'd have liked it more if it was longer.

An excellent follow up to the first. I love the way the characters feel, and the way he brings reality and delusion together. Really hope there will be more to this story!

About the author

 Brandon Sanderson has published nine solo novels with Tor—Elantris, the Mistborn books, Warbreaker, The Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, and the young adult fantasy The Rithmatist—as well as four books in the middle-grade Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians series. He was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series; the final book, A Memory of Light, was released in 2013. His novella The Emperor's Soul won the Hugo Award that year as well. His newest YA novel, Firefight, is a January 2015 release from Delacorte. Currently living in Utah with his wife and children, Brandon teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University.