Прекрасно
5 stars
Хойд рассказывает очередную историю и это прекрасно :3
Hardcover, 480 pages
Russian language
Published Feb. 16, 2024 by Азбука.
Юми и укротитель кошмаров
- ISBN:
- 978-5-389-24688-1
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4 stars
(5 reviews)
В стране, где родилась Юми, земля под ногами раскалена, а растения парят в воздухе. Юми — повелительница духов, её удел — самоотверженное служение, каждый её день состоит из множества утончённых ритуалов.
Город, где живёт Никаро, окружён таинственной Пеленой, из которой приходят кошмары — чудовищные сущности, питающиеся людскими переживаниями. Никаро — художник, способный с помощью живописи укрощать кошмары, лишать их убийственной силы.
Однажды духи обращаются к Юми с просьбой освободить их, обещая, что в этом ей поможет герой. Но не предупреждают, что с героем — Никаро — придётся обменяться телами! И как в омут с головой броситься в чужую реальность, полную загадок, тайн и чудес.
С цветными иллюстрациями фэнтезийной художницы Алии Чэнь!
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Cthos reviewed Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
Solid Sanderson Novel, some Weird Quirks
4 stars
Content warning Lots of Cosmere Spoilers
Like Tress, this book contains a number of Cosmere in-references and features Hoid as the narrator. Pretty quickly you find that Hoid has found himself in yet another ridiculous situation where he's incapacitated in some way (like Tress), but he's unable to act in this one (unlike Tress). Taking Hoid's place in the role of "mentor" is Design, the cryptic that Hoid picked up in the Stormlight Archives. Now she's a buxom woman now (or rather, the illusion of a buxom woman) with "definitely very human mannerisms". I enjoyed her persona here, it provided the comic relief as a stand-in for Hoid. They really are made for each other.
The ideas behind how the Nightmares work and how the world functions really didn't make sense to me at first, but when the reveal comes at the end of the novel it all satisfyingly clicked into place. Like, in the initial chapters, I was wondering if it was tidally locked, but turns out, no.
Other thoughts:
The moral lesson / Painter's growth was good. He did that thing again where he has a character plainly lay out the backstory which is useful, but I'm not a big fan of that. The third viewpoint character (who didn't really get any viewpoint scenes) was nice, I enjoyed her. The reference to Threndony was A+.
loppear reviewed Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
sweet and snarky
3 stars
Entertaining early adult romance of extravagant differences. As I jump into a standalone story set in a larger universe, it's hard to judge if some of the author-character hand-waving is clever or cheap, and I know I found the concluding twist to be both, but I'll try another.
Subjects
- Fantasy
- Cosmere
- Magic