Rain's Reading Log reviewed Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
A book that thrusts you into a odd world that forces you to pay attention, and I absolutely love it for it.
5.0 stars
This book took me over two weeks to finish not because it was boring but because it was a challenge to read. Not in the sense that it used complex words but in the fact that I really had to focus on each paragraph because they would just sneak in key world building in a sentence and never mention it again while building upon it later. I absolutely loved how this book used the concept of color in terms of social hierarchy, human desire, societal norms, and pretty much anything else you can think of.
The characters in upon themselves are all pretty enjoyable and unique even if two dimensional at times. The protagonist, Eddie, is pretty well devloped and seems like a real person, as you are not really sure how he is going to side on the conflicts that present itself during the story.
The pacing …
This book took me over two weeks to finish not because it was boring but because it was a challenge to read. Not in the sense that it used complex words but in the fact that I really had to focus on each paragraph because they would just sneak in key world building in a sentence and never mention it again while building upon it later. I absolutely loved how this book used the concept of color in terms of social hierarchy, human desire, societal norms, and pretty much anything else you can think of.
The characters in upon themselves are all pretty enjoyable and unique even if two dimensional at times. The protagonist, Eddie, is pretty well devloped and seems like a real person, as you are not really sure how he is going to side on the conflicts that present itself during the story.
The pacing is pretty good as the whole book takes place over the course of 5 or so days even if it feels like longer. Though the tail end of the book kind of drags on going a little to deep into describing the same setting again. Though that is only a minor annoyance and does not hurt the story overall.
It is hard for me to talk about specifics of anything because this story is best to be experience blind as giving too many key details over the world (outside of the books summary) kind of ruins how things get presented.
Overall I highly recommend it to anyone who like science fiction and stories about interesting societies. Very excited to start the second book that came out last year
