Red Side Story

It has been a 10 year wait for the sequel to Shades of Grey but it was well worth it. A fast paced tale filled with Fforde's surreal and satirical imagination. And a huge twist/reveal to top it all off.

I've always been a Jasper Fford superfan, because he is one of the most original voices within scifi-speculative fiction since Margaret Atwood. His books straddle the line between sci-fi, fantasy, and comedy with supreme skill, but manage to balance exploration of a dizzying array of fascinating ideas with stories that are rooted in three-dimensional characters you care about.

Red Side Story is the long-awaited sequel to the mind-blowing Shades of Grey (no, not that Shades of Grey), a post-apocalyptic novel exploring life thousands of years after a terrible disaster, when life has returned to normal and civilisation is basically peaceful… show more.

Fans of Fforde's amazingly original Shades of Grey have been waiting almost 15 years for the sequel< Red Side Story. It was worth the wait.

Fforde continues the story of Eddie Russett and Jane Grey as they navigate a society where your place, occupations, and who you can marry depend on what color you can see. Eddie and Jane are determined to ignore the many rules of their world and discover how it came to be.

I find the concept of a world organized by color fascinating, and I really loved all the strange creatures and plants Fforde created.