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Red Side Story

By: Jasper Fforde
Narrated by: Chris Harper, Jasper Fforde
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The long-awaited sequel to Jasper Fforde's cult bestseller Shades of Grey, set in world where social hierarchy revolves entirely around visual colour.

Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see. This is the world inhabited by Eddie Russett (red, middle-level) and Jane Grey (monochromatic, lowest in society). Eddie and Jane must negotiate the delicate Chromatic politics of society to find out what the 'Something that Happened' actually was, how society got to be this way, and crucially, is there Somewhere Else beyond their borders - and if there is, could there be Someone Else, too, someone whose unseen hand has been guiding the fortunes and misfortunes of the nation for the past 500 years?

It's a tale of a young couple's thirst for justice and answers in an implacably rigid society, where the prisoners are also the guards, and cages of convention bind the citizens to only one way of thinking - or suffer the consequences....

©2022 Jasper Fforde (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Absurdist Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Humorous Literature & Fiction Satire Comedy Witty Thought-Provoking Funny

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Fforde did not disappoint (other than the very long wait!). Arguable better than Shades of Grey, and a great broadening of the world he has created.

Everything I waited far far far to long for

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It was beautifully read and I really loved the story. One of my favourite authors and I highly recommend a listen

Wonderful!

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Obviously this would not make sense if I hadn’t read Shades of Grey which I thoroughly enjoyed. Although a follow up to the original, the tone is quite different and a ‘darkening’ theme. It is certainly very thoughtful and I shall probably listen to it again sometime. I liked the comments by Ted Grey , 20 years in Chromacia(!!!) at the beginning of the chapters. Very well read. I liked the ending and left me wanting to know more.

A rather dark story

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The second book delivers on the premise set up by the first one. The narration is excellent, probably in my top 5 of audiobooks.

Fantastic performance

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Great sequel. Well thought through alternative world. Good mix of explanation & showing through action makes a believable reality. Slightly preferred narrator of Red Side Story for characters’ voices, but good nevertheless. Hope it’s not too long til the next in the series which will hopefully explain all.

Immersive & good characters

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Really enjoyed this - I’d kind of forgotten the 1st one, it’s was so long ago I read it, but this carries on and completes the story beautifully. Funny, interesting and touching, Fforde’s world-building is wonderful. Feels a bit like 1984 written by Magnus Mills. Only slight gripe was that, whereas it does have a good, proper ending, it felt a bit rushed and I was left wanting to know more about what we started to learn.

Fantastic stuff

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Jasper Fforde does it again. Love this series, I do feel it could have been much bigger if he had picked any other title for the first volume, it just got squashed out of existence when fifty shades of grey turned up just after it was released. I’ll be honest and admit I wasn’t entirely sure at the end of the first book if he actually knew where it was going or if he was just making up cool stuff as he went along but it seems Jasper had a plan all along.
I think maybe this lacks some of the lightweight quirky charm of the first title in this series, but then perhaps that’s just a second-book-in-a-series thing and to be expected. There’s more pacing to this one and it’s got a sense of drive and direction now, so I guess it’s impossible to do both. Either way keep them coming please! I’m assuming there’s going to be at least one more? There had better be or I’m going to have to camp outside his house or something.
Nicely read as well, kudos to the narrator. Clear and defined characterisation, nicely paced, superb effort all round.

Still great. More!

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I felt like there was so much in this book it could have been two, however I understand why it needed the pace it did after such a long wait. hopefully the next book we won't have to wait so long.

a long worthwhile wait

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I read shades of grey years ago, it left me somewhat frustrated and up in the air, on a sudden idea I happened across this sequel. Listened to this while on holiday, thoroughly enjoyable, I would encourage you to be familiar with (not 50) Shades of Grey first though.

Ties up the loose ends

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Loved Shades of Grey and have been waiting for part two for so long to find out what's happened to Eddie and the feisty Jane. It's been worth the wait.

Gloriously bonkers as ever

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