cobb29 's review for:

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

4.5

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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One of the main aspects to brandon Sanderson’s writing that I feel he’s usually missing is romance. This book is his attempt at writing a romance novel and it makes me wish he focused more on that in his other books because it’s very well done (although admittedly I don’t read many romance novels). I’d say that this book’s plot is interesting but nothing special for the first 80-90% of the book and then it really picks up at the end. The setting was also quite different from other cosmere books. Although it’s a standalone book, I would highly recommend reading this after his other books (mistborn, Stormlight, warbreaker, etc.)