Red Side Story

Shades of Grey, Book 2

De: Jasper Fforde

Narrado por: Jasper Fforde, Chris Harper

Welcome to Chromatacia, where life is strictly regulated by one’s limited color perception. Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken “Something that Happened” five hundred years before. Society is now color vision—segregated, everything dictated by an individual’s visual ability, and governed by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City.

Twenty-year-old Eddie Russett, a Red, is about to go on trial for a murder he didn’t commit, and he’s pretty certain to be sent on a one-way trip to the Green Room for execution by soporific color exposure. Meanwhile, he’s engaged in an illegal relationship with his co-defendant, a Green, the charismatic and unpredictable Jane Grey. 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 satirical adventure about two star-crossed lovers on a quest to survive—even if it means upending their entire society in the process.

An EXCLUSIVE EDITION for North American listeners, complete with a never-before-published short story

©2024 Jasper Fforde / short story ©2024 by Jasper Fforde (P)2022, 2024 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd / short story ©2024 by Recorded Books

Another Fforde Favorite

Always a wonderful escape into a different world. Built to make you laugh and look at our own society structures and rules. I read this in one sitting. The long awaited sequel to Shades of Grey, this wrapped up the first story beautifully. As always, extremely well written, very imaginative, and throughly entertaining.

Brilliant!

Just wonderful. Loved every minute. And thank the author to returning to the world of the color challenged. The end was just perfect.

WONDERFUL SEQUEL

This long awaited sequel is worth the wait! Loved every second and looking forward to listening to it again.

Happy to have the sequel

I hope there will be a third story to wrap up the tale. I understand there may not be.
But I’m happy to have this! The narrator was great. I was a little put off at first as he was different than the previous, but he still was wonderful and just as perfect in a completely different way.

Loved the book, and could read even more about the Chromogencia!

was what I was hoping for

A fabulous continuance to Shade of Grey. Am hoping for more to come. Love this story line.

Nice dystopian work

Dystopian is my favorite genre, so this was fun. There was one icky part. Did not like the bonus chapter. Rather boring. Gave up after 10 minutes. Enjoyed the narration.

fascinating storytelling

A complete story of social scifi with romance and hope for a better world. Great characters and a captivating storyline

Fantastic sequel!

I love this series and the sequel does the original justice. I finished this book and immediately went back to the first to see what all I missed the first run through!

Great story

Loved every minute of it including the bonus story. Hoping for a sequel, and sooner this time.

Worth the wait

I've been waiting for YEARS for this to be written, and it was totally worth the wait. This one is just as enigmatic as the original.

One thing that made me nervous at the beginning was the change in narrators, after all, John Lee is a legend. However, Chris harper did an amazing job. This one will (for me) get some re-listens.