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Romantasy

Shades of Grey

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  • 2008 first published
  • 395 pages
  • ★ 4.3 (14 ratings)
  • 12 editions
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Published in 2008, Shades of Grey is a romantasy novel by Jasper Fforde. Key subjects include color blindness, social structure, social classes and colors.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.3 out of 5 from 14 ratings, and 38 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 12 editions.

At about 395 pages, most readers finish it in 7–8 hours.

About Shades of Grey

An astonishing, hotly anticipated new novel from the great literary fantasist and creator of Thursday Next, Jasper Fforde. As long as anyone can remember, society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. From the underground feedpipes that keep the municipal park green to the healing hues viewed to cure illness to a social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see.Young Eddie Russett has no ambition to be anything other than a loyal drone of the Collective. With his better-than-average red perception, he could well marry Constance Oxblood and inherit the string works; he may even have enough red perception to make prefect.For Eddie, life looks colorful. Life looks good.But everything changes when he moves with his father, a respected swatchman, to East Carmine.
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  • Color blindness
  • Social structure
  • Social classes
  • Colors
  • Fantasy romance
  • Humorous
  • Achromatopsie
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Structure sociale

Quick answers

Who wrote Shades of Grey?

Shades of Grey was written by Jasper Fforde and first published in 2008.

What genre is Shades of Grey?

It is usually shelved as Romantasy.

How long is Shades of Grey?

The median edition has 395 pages, about 7–8 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Shades of Grey?

Readers who like it often enjoy Valley of Silence, Seras-tu là ? and House of Hades.

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