Red Side Story - bookrastinating.com

eBook, 376 pages

English language

Published by Hodder & Stoughton.

ISBN:: 978-1-4447-6369-0
ASIN:: B09RPG3XMN

Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see. This is the world inhabited by Eddie Russett (red, middle-level) and Jane Grey (monochromatic, lowest in society). Eddie and Jane must negotiate the delicate Chromatic politics of society to find out what the 'Something that Happened' actually was, how society got to be this way, and crucially, is there Somewhere Else beyond their borders - and if there is, could there be Someone Else, too, someone whose unseen hand has been guiding the fortunes and misfortunes of the nation for the past 500 years?

It's a tale of a young couple's thirst for justice and answers in an implacably rigid society, where the prisoners are also the guards, and cages of convention bind the citizens to only one way of thinking - or suffer the consequences. . ..

Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see. This is the world inhabited by Eddie Russett (red, middle-level) and Jane Grey (monochromatic, lowest in society). Eddie and Jane must negotiate the delicate Chromatic politics of society to find out what the 'Something that Happened' actually was, how society got to be this way, and crucially, is there Somewhere Else beyond their borders - and if there is, could there be Someone Else, too, someone whose unseen hand has been guiding the fortunes and misfortunes of the nation for the past 500 years?

It's a tale of a young couple's thirst for justice and answers in an implacably rigid society, where the prisoners are also the guards, and cages of convention bind the citizens to only one way of thinking - or suffer the consequences. . ..

3 editions

kathol reviewed Shades of Grey 2 by Jasper Fforde

None

3 stars

I really loved the first book (shades of grey). It took me quite some time to get into the second, as it felt more like a continuous try to fit a lot of explanation into all that was happening. And I did not like the internal jokes, the protagonist was telling on how he was clever ones, just to retell something.

I really liked the second half of the book, as it felt more like the original first book. But somehow, the ending left me a bit frustrated with all back and forth until ultimate things happened. Still for me, quite a nice twist of what I was expecting and how it turned out. So rather four stars than three.