Brandt Legg
Author of The Last Librarian
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- Brandt Legg is a former child prodigy who turned an interest in stamp collecting into a multi-million dollar empire. At eight, Legg's father died suddenly, plunging his family into poverty. Two years later, while suffering from crippling migraines, he started in business. National media dubbed him the "Teen Tycoon," but by the time he reached his twenties, the high-flying Legg became ensnarled in the financial whirlwind of the junk bond eighties, lost his entire fortune... and ended up serving time in federal prison for financial improprieties. Legg emerged, chastened and wiser, one year later and began anew in retail and real estate. From there his life adventures have led him through magazine publishing, a newspaper column, photography, FM radio, CD production and concert promotion.
OUTVIEW (book one of the Inner Movement trilogy)
OUTIN (book two of the Inner Movement trilogy)
OUTMOVE (book three of the Inner Movement trilogy)
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This novel delves immediately into a world of mystical powers and dark premonitions. The main character is a young man, but has been forced to mature sooner than later. The difficulties of his life are compounded by a strange ability to experience the deaths of others with stunning prescience. As the story unfolds, you can only shake your head. Revelation upon revelation, darkness and mystery, the metaphysical and the visceral--this well-crafted tale has it all. A great start to what show more promises to be an engrossing series! show less
Rarely have I read such a dynamic opening. It places you alongside an escape route, as the breathless protagonist, in the grip of his "Outview"—his nightmarish vision—runs away from a danger yet unknown to us: "I kept running. Nine of us had sworn our lives to protect the precious artifact sewn inside my belt. Six were already dead…" And from this paragraph to the next, we take a sharp fall—a transition—from an era of sword battles down to the depth of a sacred Mayan pool where show more Nate wakes up to the present.
Kyle and Linh, his friends, provide support, normalcy, and a sharp contrast to the protagonist's own family life. Since the day his dad died, Nate finds himself lost in an ever-growing chasm between him and his mom, and the mysterious placement of his older brother Dustin in a mental institution. No wonder Nate's sleep is tortured. The spiral mist of the Outview takes him to a place about which he knows only one thing: he does not want to go there. In the death-like state of dreaming, he experiences a horrible, painful death in a new permeation each time.
The tension between the place he visits in his sleep and the place of his waking hours give the story its lights and shadows—but it also presents two different writing styles: the compelling, dynamic descriptions on one hand and the dialogue, trying to make sense of it all, on the other. I cannot say how other readers may react to this difference. For me, I found myself growing increasingly curious about the circumstances of his father's death, and of the lockup of his brother Dustin. Will Nate and his friends find a portal to another place, a secret world where they can hide from danger? Would their adventure continue to unravel there, and challenge them to find their inner courage?
Like his protagonist, the author has lost his father under tragic circumstances. From that trying time in his life, Brandt Legg became driven to find success, even as he swerved precariously on his way there. The sentences he puts on the lips of his characters are quite telling, in the context of his own experience: "Possessions, of any kind, block us from reaching the power of our soul," and, "I think everything's connected." The author must have recalled the crippling migraine headaches from which he suffered, and used them here as a model for Nate's Outviews. This, to me, is a delightful way to pivot from reality, and elevate its pain into a creative space. Call it what it is: inspiration.
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Kyle and Linh, his friends, provide support, normalcy, and a sharp contrast to the protagonist's own family life. Since the day his dad died, Nate finds himself lost in an ever-growing chasm between him and his mom, and the mysterious placement of his older brother Dustin in a mental institution. No wonder Nate's sleep is tortured. The spiral mist of the Outview takes him to a place about which he knows only one thing: he does not want to go there. In the death-like state of dreaming, he experiences a horrible, painful death in a new permeation each time.
The tension between the place he visits in his sleep and the place of his waking hours give the story its lights and shadows—but it also presents two different writing styles: the compelling, dynamic descriptions on one hand and the dialogue, trying to make sense of it all, on the other. I cannot say how other readers may react to this difference. For me, I found myself growing increasingly curious about the circumstances of his father's death, and of the lockup of his brother Dustin. Will Nate and his friends find a portal to another place, a secret world where they can hide from danger? Would their adventure continue to unravel there, and challenge them to find their inner courage?
Like his protagonist, the author has lost his father under tragic circumstances. From that trying time in his life, Brandt Legg became driven to find success, even as he swerved precariously on his way there. The sentences he puts on the lips of his characters are quite telling, in the context of his own experience: "Possessions, of any kind, block us from reaching the power of our soul," and, "I think everything's connected." The author must have recalled the crippling migraine headaches from which he suffered, and used them here as a model for Nate's Outviews. This, to me, is a delightful way to pivot from reality, and elevate its pain into a creative space. Call it what it is: inspiration.
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Brilliantly written, Cosega Search challenges you to put the puzzle together as if you yourself were an archeologist who came upon the broken pieces of a mysterious vessel, a vessel that holds a long forgotten secret that must be figured out. The author, Brandt Legg, suggests that it is the past that sheds a light onto the mystery of the future. He has created a masterful modern story with clever dialog that moves the search along, combining modernity with references to antiquity, and he show more heightens the suspense as the Cosega sequence must be deciphered.
Together with Ripley Gaines, the brilliant archeologist who has a controversial theory that he is yet to prove, you must dig into the clues and decode them in time, to prevent a calamity of immense proportions.
“There will be a time at the beginning of the twenty-first century whence the earth shall reveal an impossible object. Within the stone is a light which will cause the holy city to collapse, for it shall erase the past, demonstrate all knowledge to be false, and the scriptures to be a hoax."
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Together with Ripley Gaines, the brilliant archeologist who has a controversial theory that he is yet to prove, you must dig into the clues and decode them in time, to prevent a calamity of immense proportions.
“There will be a time at the beginning of the twenty-first century whence the earth shall reveal an impossible object. Within the stone is a light which will cause the holy city to collapse, for it shall erase the past, demonstrate all knowledge to be false, and the scriptures to be a hoax."
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This was a library thing member review copy. I am a librarian who has has to close down my library and most of the books were going to be tossed out into a dumpster. Yeah I know, so this book pulled at my heart strings. It was everything I have lived through without the dystopian future events which have brought about the deliberate destruction of hard copies of books. Something is hidden in the hard copies of books, something powers that be do not want found, they don't know exactly where show more it is so everything must go. All books appear to have been digitised anyway so why have hard copies mouldering in a library? Well the digitised copies are being changed, sometimes a few words, punctuation, the meaning is being altered and hardly anyone seems to realise it. First in a series, you will need to get all because this book leaves you hanging on a precipice. show less
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