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. 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. Gentle Giant: Tojin. While he is very big and seems obsessed with his muscles and exercise regime, in reality he is a good person, and a little shy. The third of Brandon Sanderson's four "Secret Novels," this book is beautifully illustrated by Aliya Chen and meticulously designed. Hoid: Granted, he did overdo it—his eyes lingered on her the entire time she worked. But don't judge him too harshly. He was nineteen, and I'm a uniquely talented artist.

That was Yumi and the Nightmare Painter for me. The unanticipated story of two people who find one another. 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.

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.

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. 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. selectedStore.City }}, {{ selectedStore.State }} {{ selectedStore.Country }} {{ selectedStore.Zip }}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. 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. The star. Singular. No, not a sun. Just one star. A bullet hole in the midnight sky, bleeding pale light.

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. There is a world. One of endless night, surrounded by an even deeper darkness. 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.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. 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. 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 I Work Alone: Painter insists on working alone rather than in a pair because he thinks he's a lonely dark hero who no one appreciates. Hoid lampshades that this mostly just means he's socially awkward and won't talk to his peers. 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.

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. 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.For every episode, we randomly draw a set of clues from all submissions, so yours might take some time to appear 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. 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. 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."