It is the clear product of a master storyteller, and it is not to be missed. Like the best of Sanderson’s work, Lies of the Beholder is something special. In Stephen Leeds, a man constantly struggling to understand and control his own divided nature, he has created one of the most compelling heroes in recent popular fiction.
Like the volumes that preceded it, Sanderson’s latest is original, challenging, and utterly absorbing. These events lead Stephen, along with several of his aspects, to a sinister high-tech firm specializing in advanced methods of human incarceration. The result is a visionary meditation on the mysteries of the human personality.
The story begins with two seemingly unrelated events: the disappearance of Armando, one of Stephen’s many “aspects,” and an unexpected cry for help from Sandra, the woman who, many years before, helped him learn to live with his condition. The third and final entry in the series, Lies of the Beholder, is perhaps the strangest, most unpredictable installment to date.
Stephen Leeds, AKA “Legion,” is the series ’ hero, a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialized skills. In the Legion series, distinctly contemporary novellas filled with suspense, humor, and an endless flow of invention, Sanderson has revealed a startling new facet of his singular narrative talent. His ambitious, multi-volume epics ( Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive) and Hugo Award-winning The Emperor’s Soul have earned both critical acclaim and a substantial popular following. Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Jon Foster.īrandon Sanderson is one of the most significant fantasists to enter the field in a good many years.
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