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The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey
"Fforde's books are more than an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted . . .
and are embellished with the rich details of a Dickens or Pratchett." -The Independent
Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception.
Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken "Something that Happened" five hundred years ago. Society is
now color vision-segregated, professions, marriages, and leisure activities all dictated by an individual's visual
ability, and everything run by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City.
Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, twenty-year-old Eddie Russett is being bullied into an arranged marriage
with the powerful DeMauve family, purples who hope to redden up their progeny's color-viewing potential with
Eddie's gene stock. Their obnoxious daughter Violet is confident the marriage won't hamper her style for too
long because Eddie is about to go on trial for a murder he didn't commit, and he's pretty sure to be sent on
a one-way trip to the Green Room for execution by soporific color exposure. Meanwhile, Eddie is engaged in
an illegal relationship with his co-defendant, a Green, the charismatic, unpredictable, and occasionally deadly
Jane Grey. Time is running out for Eddie and Jane to figure out how to save themselves. Negotiating the narrow
boundaries of the Rules within their society, they search for a loophole-some truth of their world that has been
hidden from its hyper-policed citizens.
New York Times bestselling author Jasper Fforde returns to his fan-favorite Shades of Grey series with this
wildly anticipated, laugh-out-loud funny and darkly satiric adventure about two star-crossed lovers on a quest
to survive-even if it means upending their entire society in the process.
"Fforde's books are more than an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted . . .
and are embellished with the rich details of a Dickens or Pratchett." -The Independent
Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception.
Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken "Something that Happened" five hundred years ago. Society is
now color vision-segregated, professions, marriages, and leisure activities all dictated by an individual's visual
ability, and everything run by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City.
Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, twenty-year-old Eddie Russett is being bullied into an arranged marriage
with the powerful DeMauve family, purples who hope to redden up their progeny's color-viewing potential with
Eddie's gene stock. Their obnoxious daughter Violet is confident the marriage won't hamper her style for too
long because Eddie is about to go on trial for a murder he didn't commit, and he's pretty sure to be sent on
a one-way trip to the Green Room for execution by soporific color exposure. Meanwhile, Eddie is engaged in
an illegal relationship with his co-defendant, a Green, the charismatic, unpredictable, and occasionally deadly
Jane Grey. Time is running out for Eddie and Jane to figure out how to save themselves. Negotiating the narrow
boundaries of the Rules within their society, they search for a loophole-some truth of their world that has been
hidden from its hyper-policed citizens.
New York Times bestselling author Jasper Fforde returns to his fan-favorite Shades of Grey series with this
wildly anticipated, laugh-out-loud funny and darkly satiric adventure about two star-crossed lovers on a quest
to survive-even if it means upending their entire society in the process.
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