[books 2016] Jasper Fforde
16. Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
A future where people are socially stratified by how much colour they can see. That's the tag line but it's a lot more nasty and dystopian than that. I can't believe I once thought that Fforde would be too twee for my tastes.
The worlds of his Last Dragonslayer and Tuesday Next books are pretty dark, this is far worse. Repression, institutionalised bullying at every level
And it's still a marvellous page-turner. It's really funny, and while you'll probably figure out part of the twist less than 1/4 of the way through the book, I just wanted to know what would happen next. The ending, though - ouch.
There are supposed to be more in the series, but he's since put out the entire Last Dragonslayer series and last time I caught up with him at a con he was working on something else, so it doesn't look good.
A future where people are socially stratified by how much colour they can see. That's the tag line but it's a lot more nasty and dystopian than that. I can't believe I once thought that Fforde would be too twee for my tastes.
The worlds of his Last Dragonslayer and Tuesday Next books are pretty dark, this is far worse. Repression, institutionalised bullying at every level
And it's still a marvellous page-turner. It's really funny, and while you'll probably figure out part of the twist less than 1/4 of the way through the book, I just wanted to know what would happen next. The ending, though - ouch.
There are supposed to be more in the series, but he's since put out the entire Last Dragonslayer series and last time I caught up with him at a con he was working on something else, so it doesn't look good.