Jasper Fforde
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"Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken "Something that Happened" five hundred years ago. Society is now color vision-segregated, professions, marriages, and leisure activities all dictated by an individual's visual ability, and everything run by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City. Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, twenty-year-old Eddie Russett is being bullied into an arranged marriage with the powerful DeMauve family,...
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The Trolls have invaded, and the Ununited Kingdoms have fallen to their murderous rampage. Assisting them is The Mighty Shandar, the most powerful sorcerer the world has ever seen. Their victory seems complete. Or is it? Orphan Jennifer Strange, Court Mystician and ex-Dragonslayer, plans a counter-attack with only a few resources to hand: An uncrowned Queen with no nation; Two fussy dragons, two sorcerers, and no magic; A dozen spoiled princesses;...