Shades Of Grey

Many years in the future, Eddie, a Red, lives in a “colortacracy” where he is on the lower end of the caste system, but at least he's above the greys. Your designation is determined by what color you can see, and this has all sorts of implications for what work you can do, who you can court and marry (color theory comes into play here), and how you treat and think about about other colors. Eddie and his father need to visit a town in the fringes for new, temporary assignments. Eddie, who is quite a stickler for the many rules that so strictly guide decorum, learns that the code book and points system get much less care here than in the big city. In fact, he learns many new things.

There's a few initial questions the book explores and since I was quite confused at the beginning, these were my hooks that kept me going. This really is an amazing book, pretty groundbreaking and I really would like to read it with eyes another time since I missed a lot of the humor and intricacies.

If you want a wowzer of a world or a book that says something, I recommend. It has extreme worldbuilding that never felt info dumpy (even though maybe it is). The audiobook is excellent, but I do NOT recommend it if you cannot dedicate 100% of your attention to the story. The worldbuilding is just too detailed.