Gather round gentle listeners as we do our annual check in with Brandon Sanderson’s latest (sort of) books. This time Josh and Steph read Tress of the Emerald Sea and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. These excellent novels were part of Sanderson’s Secret Projects but are now available to all. We dug in, had a …

It feels cliché to say, even though it rings true, but Tress of the Emerald Sea feels like it’s the Brandon Sanderson remix of William Goldman’s The Princess Bride. Not only will I not be the first to say it, but the author outright says it in the Postscript in a lovely story about how …