So I finished my first book of 2010, Jasper Fforde’s highly-imaginative Shades of Grey, a book which explores a bizarre world in which social status is determined by which part of the visible spectrum you can see. Long story short, this book is amazing. I’m not sure how I can describe it without giving away too much of it, but it’s a sharp and incisive look at a world so disturbingly-utopian and different from ours that it’s pretty much exactly the same as ours in every way. Does that make sense? Just go read it.
