The star. Singular. No, not a sun. Just one star. A bullet hole in the midnight sky, bleeding pale light. Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Once Hoid is unfrozen he wants off the planet as fast as possible. As nice as the planet is after the Shroud comes down he openly states he has no intention of ever visiting again. The Worm That Walks: Masaka is a Sleepless who came to the planet to get away from war elsewhere in the Cosmere. As such, her body is a swarm of insectoid "hordelings" that she's selectively bred to fit into a human shape, though she has to wear bulky clothing and makeup to hide the seams. Yumi is a yoki-hijo, a sacred caller of spirits who binds them to a task. Her life is regimented to exacting detail, every step ritualized to protect her position. Her gift sets her apart from normal people, and her skill sets her apart from the gifted. All she wants is to live a normal life, for just one day, but her duty binds her too tightly even when she has the opportunity.

Yumi And The Nightmare Painter has a lot going for it. Sanderson’s flair for vibrant settings and magic is on full display. I particularly appreciated the feeling of being eased into a more advanced Cosmere, where technology becomes prevalent but the magic doesn’t fade away. Sanderson does a great job using Yumi as a sort of bridge between the medieval-ish fantasies of the other Cosmere worlds like Roshar and the futuristic ages the wider universe is creeping toward. Lo leía esperando que fuese relativamente lenta, pero el giro argumental que toma en cuestión de capitulos y la forma tan "sencilla" de consumir esos capítulos que te hacen seguir leyendo... From Number 1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson - creator of The Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn Saga, and countless bestselling works of science fiction and fantasy - comes this gripping story set in the Cosmere universe told by Hoid, where two people from incredibly different cultures must work together to save their worlds from certain disaster.Hoid explains that Painter's world uses a different calendar to the people he is telling the story to. He doesn't add such an explanation when they get to Yumi's world, because they have the same time measurements (though the names are different), because they're the same world. One day, Yumi is offered a gift by a spirit—freedom, adventure. Despite her wishes, she declines, knowing her duty. Instead, the spirit begs her for help, and she finds herself in a very strange situation. She is now invisible and intangible in her own world, while Painter has seemingly taken her place. He can see her, but no one else can, and everyone else sees him as Yumi. When they go to sleep, they wake up in his world, where she appears as herself and he is a ghost. Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch. Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe.

This was utterly brilliant and satisfying. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter will be the best of the secret project novels, and it is easily one of Sanderson's finest books in his career' Novel Notions No Endor Holocaust: The Shroud being dispelled exposed the living inhabitants of Komashi to the sun for the first time in centuries, and removed the hion lines they'd relied on to power their lives. While this probably should have caused a major catastrophe, Hoid's second epilogue reveals that the people were able to survive the change in conditions. They also managed to persuade some spirits to restore the hion lines, granting them enough power to keep civilization going.Bad Bedroom, Bad Life: Nikaro's bachelor suite is cluttered with laundry, dirty dishes, and old take-out containers. He tries to convince himself he's Married to the Job as a distraction from the utter mess he's made of his social life. Hoid: She... did not do a good job acting human. I take no blame, as she repeatedly refused my counsel on the matter. At least her disguise was holding up. Lonely Bachelor Pad: Nikaro's bachelor suite is part of his compensation as a nightmare painter, and he doesn't have much going on in his life besides work, soap operas, and the noodle shop.

God Is Dead: A normalcy for a book related to the Cosmere. In this case, the reason the planet is so screwed up is because the Shard Virtuosity committed suicide. Or at least, it seems like this is the reason. Design even says you normally don't see things like this except as a direct result of a dead god. But in the end, it was something entirely different, though perhaps Virtuosity could have done something if she had still been alive. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter is a novel of The Cosmere by Brandon Sanderson, the third of his "secret projects" written during the Covid-19 pandemic. Fantastical Social Services: Nightmare painters are essentially a state-run extermination service. The pests just happen to be living nightmares that creep into the city from the eldritch darkness beyond, and the extermination involves painting them into harmless forms before they can eat enough fear to assume a much more dangerous physical form. Refusal of the Call: When the spirits offer Yumi a gift, she knows it will lead to adventure; she politely declines. Hoid mentions that while in many cultures, stories with spirits offering gifts are parables about danger, in Yumi's culture a spirit's gift is always positive; she declined because she genuinely thinks she doesn't deserve it and needs to do her duty. Instead, she offers the spirit her help, and gets drawn into (presumably) a different adventure. New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson adds to his Cosmere universe shared by Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive with a new standalone novel especially for fans of Asian pop culture. Illustrated by Aliya Chen.Good with Numbers: Design only gives out discounts in prime numbers, and chose her form partly because it reminded her of a cosine. Human Disguise: Hoid used lightweaving to give Design some sort of three-dimensional disguise; apparently the specifics are complicated, but the short version is that it acts like she's made of flesh.

Yumi, on the other hand, is a tragic delight. She’s kept in an emotional prison, unable to think or feel for herself. During her adventures with Painter, she discovers freedom. She makes friends. She lives for the first time. And she begins to understand all the wonderful, terrible things that living can bring. Overall, I enjoyed Yumi. Sanderson crafts a fun and interesting story within the Cosmere. The novel doesn’t crumble beneath the burden of advancing the Cosmere into a more tech-savvy world. It ushers in a new era gently and with a whimsical story told by everyone’s favorite mysterious bard. For every episode, we randomly draw a set of clues from all submissions, so yours might take some time to appear Nepotism: The Dreamwatch, allegedly the most elite nightmare painters, are actually a bunch of rich and powerful people's relatives who treat the job as a social club and steal the credit from the subordinates who do the actual work.

Team Mom: Akane for her misfit group of painters. She sincerely cares about all of them, looks after them and basically adopts Yumi. Nikaro mentions that it's what she's always done. It's mentioned that Yumi averages twelve spirits called each session (compared to ten for most others), but she manages thirty-seven the first day we see her. Yes that was explicitly exceptional even for her, but it's still a huge jump. Because she's been living this same day over and over for almost two thousand years, her skill has grown to incalculable levels, so from her perspective her output suddenly jumped by a huge amount overnight.