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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter [Dramatized Adaptation]

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter [Dramatized Adaptation]

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Audio dramaEpic FantasyFantasy
Length
11h 0m
Published
2025
Language
English

Synopsis

GraphicAudio's full-cast dramatization, with music and sound effects, of Brandon Sanderson's Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, a standalone Cosmere novel. Yumi has spent her life in strict ritual obedience as a summoner of spirits, while Painter patrols dark city streets painting away nightmares and dreaming of being a hero. When the two are suddenly bound together across their very different worlds, they must work out what connected them before they lose both each other and the worlds they protect.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

RomanticAtmosphericThought-ProvokingEmotionalComplex
SacrificeRedemption ArcFound FamilyMystery BoxComing of AgeSlow Burn

Genres

Epic Fantasy Fantasy

Authors

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Brandon Sanderson

Born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1975, Brandon Sanderson spent his early twenties working graveyard shifts at a hotel — writing novels at the front desk between guest check-ins. By the time his debut, Elantris, was published by Tor Books in 2005, he had completed thirteen novels in the drawer. His subsequent Mistborn trilogy and the ongoing Stormlight Archive series established him as the primary architect of the Cosmere, an interconnected fictional universe in which most of his fantasy series share...

Characters

NikaroProtagonist

A Nightmare Painter who walks Kilahito's streets at night, now sharing his life with a stranger from another existence.

Yumi (Torio)Protagonist

A yoki-hijo whose ritual-bound life is upended when her soul is swapped nightly with a stranger from another world.

HoidSupporting

The novel's recurring Cosmere narrator, who tells Yumi and Nikaro's story.

All characters in Yumi and the Nightmare Painter [Dramatized Adaptation]