Yumi and the Nightmare Painter: A Cosmere Novel

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When Yumi goes out into the shroud, she conquers the nightmares sent after her with barely a thought. Serious Business: The preeminent art form on Torio — as well as the cornerstone of their spiritual practices and their economy — is stacking rocks. His failure to be accepted into the Dreamwatch despite his talent convinced him that his art was bad and so he stopped trying. This eBook can be accessed through the free Dymocks eReader app, ( iOS, Android, Windows), or downloaded via Adobe Digital Editions (and other . The adults are asleep, the child the Nightmare is feeding on is frightened to the point of voicelessness, and the narration points out how easy it would be for Painter to slip out without having been seen; in fact, that's what he's supposed to do, so he can alert the experts.

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. The third of Brandon Sanderson's four "Secret Novels," this book is beautifully illustrated by Aliya Chen and meticulously designed. 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. In fact, her skill is the only thing that has grown in the almost two thousand years she's been imprisoned, so when she really lets loose she stacks stones higher than buildings. 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.

He's a phenomenally talented painter, but ever since he was rejected from the Dreamwatch and alienated his friends, he's avoided any creative art and sticks to painting nightmares into bamboo. The only reason worldhoppers don't help uplift the locals on their own is because it requires a lot of paperwork. Probably the only reason that it works is because the locals don't know about intelligent non-humans and see her as a benign Cloudcuckoolander, even when she directly tells them she isn't human.

Big Damn Kiss: After Painter brings Yumi back to existence in the epilogue, they share a passionate kiss. He notes that this was not what he'd intended to happen, and presumably the protections will be further refined. 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.

Brilliant, but Lazy: Painter is actually one of the best artists in his city, but he's too lazy to paint anything more complicated than bamboo. 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. 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. 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.

But in the end, it was something entirely different, though perhaps Virtuosity could have done something if she had still been alive.Filled with nightmares come to life, twisted shapes that slink to windows and ease open doors, sliding across floors to look down on helpless faces.

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.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.