Red Side Story

Shades of Grey, Book 2

By: Jasper Fforde

Narrated by: 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

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!

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.

Better than book 1

It was an easy listening aside from not wanting to stop listening evwn when done. Strength of characters and uniqueness of storyline makes this a good read.

Brilliant!

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