Review: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, by Brandon Sanderson
by
Stuart Holland
I love to theorycraft a good Cosmere connected story and there were plenty of fun anecdotes and side references for me here. I also still love Hoid/Wit’s tone as the narrator.
As always, Brandon creates a new world that is both fantastical and sensible. He creates people who feel real but still strange. He also makes some great points about the nature of art and the importance of meaning.
This edition is also beautiful. I got the Kickstarter edition of the Secret Projects series that this is from and it was well worth it. The foiled, the inline art, and what a cover!
Normally I think I would’ve given this 5 stars, but I didn’t really get to immerse myself in the Brandon Avalanche at the end of the book, so I didn’t get the full rush that I usually do out of that.
