Yumi and the Nightmare Painter: A Cosmere Novel

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Even for a compulsive planner like me, sometimes a story emerges like magic. Unexpected, unprompted. You build an outline in days, craft worlds during a compulsive daydream, and develop characters with a burst of imagination like the brief flash of a firework. The drama Yumi watches seemingly ends with the main couple being forced apart forever, but Yumi later hears that there was a secret bonus episode where the couple does get their happily ever after. This leads to the main story ending with Yumi dying to save Painter's society and let the souls of Torio rest, only for Painter to resurrect her in the epilogue. Brandon Sanderson's reputation is finally as big as his novels' The New York Times on Words of Radiance 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. Amnesia Loop: The father-machine doesn't have enough power to trap the souls of the fourteen yoki-hijo the way it trapped everyone else, but it does have just enough power to erase a day's worth of their memories. So it uses its captured souls to create fake villages and has each yoki-hijo live out the same day over and over again, erasing their memories each night, for seventeen hundred years.

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... The third of Brandon Sanderson's four "Secret Novels," this book is beautifully illustrated by Aliya Chen and meticulously designed. Gondor Calls for Aid: Akane and her friends manage to bring thirty-seven painters, about ten percent of all the painters in the city, to help Painter when he tells them an army of nightmares is coming. In a variant, no one is quite there because they want to help; most of them are there because they think it might be funny, or because they were bribed into coming with debts called in or favors promised. They're all rather annoyed when they realize Nikaro is involved, and they almost all leave pretty early on. Then the nightmares come. 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.You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Throughout most of the story, Yumi refers to Nikaro by his profession (though she does indirectly refer to him by his name when with Akane and the others to keep up her cover as his sister). After Painter reveals the truth of how he lied to his friends, he begins to walk away to leave her alone. It's only when Yumi directly calls out to him by his actual name that he turns to face her. From this point onwards, Yumi frequently switches between calling him "Painter" and "Nikaro." 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. One day, Yumi and Painter’s lives become spiritually bound to one another. Painter wakes up as Yumi and must live her life while Yumi herself guides him as a spirit invisible to everyone else. In Painter’s world, Yumi keeps her form and explores the wonders of Kilahito while Painter guides her. Together, they try to unravel the mystery of their lives and why they are intertwined. 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. 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.

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 The star. Singular. No, not a sun. Just one star. A bullet hole in the midnight sky, bleeding pale light. Emotion Eater: The nightmares seem to gain sustenance from the fears of humans. This is because they are themselves former humans and absorbing the raw emotions of living people (specifically fear, being the most primal) help them regain some sense of their humanity. Alien Among Us: According to Hoid, one of the first problems a world faces when they leave their world and discover life elsewhere in the Cosmere is the fact that everyone else has been likely visiting their world for quite a while. The only reason worldhoppers don't help uplift the locals on their own is because it requires a lot of paperwork.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.

Good with Numbers: Design only gives out discounts in prime numbers, and chose her form partly because it reminded her of a cosine. Suddenly flung together, Yumi and Painter must strive to right the wrongs in both their lives, reconciling their past and present while maintaining the precarious balance of each of their worlds. If they cannot unravel the mystery of what brought them together before it’s too late, they risk forever losing not only the bond growing between them, but the very worlds they’ve always struggled to protect. Mistaken for Incest: Yumi introduces herself to Akane as Painter's sister... and then mentions how they took a bath together recently. It might be for the best that all that got buried under Yumi mistaking Akane for Painter's concubine. At the end of the story, when Yumi is saved, Painter has to explain that the girl he's suddenly kissing a lot is not his sister, but his "girlfriend from another city." Apparently, his friends still didn't believe it until his parents showed up and confirmed they didn't have a daughter. 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.Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious: The stable nightmare hungers for Yumi's incredible Investiture. According to Hoid, if it had succeeded in killing her it would have basically become a new yoki-hijo. This is why the Machine couldn't kill any of the yoki-hijo, because from its perspective there was no difference. But as Design points out, Yumi is so powerful that they should be running from her, and when she decides to stop being afraid she rips nightmares away from the Machine with no trouble whatsoever. 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.

Heroic Sacrifice: Yumi's final battle against the father-machine. She knows that it is the machine's power that is sustaining the shroud and holding her soul in this world, and that if she defeats the machine she will pass on. But she goes ahead and does it anyway, to save Painter and his friends and all the innocents of Kilahito. 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. Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery - the approximate delivery time is usually between 1-2 business days.selectedStore.City }}, {{ selectedStore.State }} {{ selectedStore.Country }} {{ selectedStore.Zip }} Even worse for the victims of the Father Machine, which has trapped their souls either in a catatonic state of nothingness they are very much also aware of, or in a "Groundhog Day" Loop where the Laser-Guided Amnesia has them living the same day over and over and over. It's indicated at the end that once the Father Machine gained enough spirits to maintain itself perpetually it would never let them go. Considering those spirits are tantamount to God in this world, then suffice it to say, nobody would be coming to release them. Corrupted Contingency: After his adventures on Lumar, or possibly after (Cosmere spoilers!) discovering what Taravangian did to his memories, Hoid put protections on himself against having his mind or soul interfered with. When he arrived on Komashi and the Machine tried to seize his soul, his protections activated... and froze him into a kind of stasis for the next three years, until Yumi defeated the Machine. He notes that this was not what he'd intended to happen, and presumably the protections will be further refined. In the epilogue, as they defy fate to let Yumi return to life, and after they have already learned they actually live on the same world, this becomes: "Our world, our rules." 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.