542 pages
English language
Published Nov. 21, 2010 by Windsor Paragon.
Eddie Russett lives in a world where fortune, career and ultimate destiny are rigidly dictated by the colours you can see, with violet at the top, and red at the bottom. Below the colours are the grey underclass who can only see tones of black and white.
I had so many questions (sparked from the first chapter... you'll know) and I didn't get answers until the last few chapters. The first 80% of the novel read like a long set-up, but a witty, funny, interesting one. I liked the first 80% but the excitement got real in the last 20%, and I listened to the last three hours of the audiobook at once instead of sleeping.
Das Beste was ich seit Langem gelesen habe. Wie schon bei den Thursday-Next-Büchern erweist sich Jasper Fforde als wahrer Meister im Bauen von kuriosen Welten.
Fforde has a fine ear for turning dialogue into giddy flights of lunacy, sometimes recalling Monty Python routines at their most absurd. This may sometimes occur at a cost to plot, but Fforde is a fine fantasist, and his flights of surreal wit only serve to heighten the monstrous amounts of pleasure he ladles out for the reader.
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