Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
Published 2023 · 107,800 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is Yumi and the Nightmare Painter to read?
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter scores 48 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 42 out of 100
- Plain, with invented magic vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 42 out of 100
- Clear, easy sentences.
- Abstraction: 48 out of 100
- Concrete, with a magic system to hold.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Considerable world-building.
- Narrative indirection: 48 out of 100
- A frame narrator with a hidden agenda.
- Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
- The paintings and the spirits carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Some comic irony from the framing narrator.
- Resolution withholding: 45 out of 100
- Fully resolved.
- Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
- Two swapped viewpoints inside a frame.
How Yumi and the Nightmare Painter is regarded
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter holds a literary regard score of 34 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.