Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
No, not the OTHER Shades of Grey. In fact, this book couldn’t be different! “Shades of Grey” takes place in a future world, after the mysterious “Something That Happened”, where people’s eyes have devolved to only see certain colors and certain resolutions of those colors. Because of this, society has created castes and rules based on which colors you can see and how well you can see them. The story follows Eddie Russett who is accompanying his father to the Outer Fringes, away from the marriage that will bring his family up the social ladder and away from the life Eddie has been dutifully planning all his life. It is in the Outer Fringes that Eddie discovers that not everything is as peaceful as it seems in his safe and controlled existence.
In this world, good behavior is rewarded with merits and bad behavior is punished by demerits. The manufacturing of spoons is forbidden. Eddie, through his dangerous curiosity and questioning, becomes low on merits and must risk his life by going to High Saffron, a city untouched since the “Something that Happened.”
Fforde has crafted an uncanny love story between Eddie and the Grey peasant called Jane and a hilarious mystery that leaves you eager for the second book to be written. Fans of Douglas Adams and the Thursday Next series will devour this quirky read!
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