I don't think I was really reading this for six months, but it did feel that way at times. The book was extremely slow for me to get into. It had a steep learning curve at first, one in which you really couldn't learn enough to be satisfying, you just had to absorb all kinds of weird little facts (many of them unimportant) about the universe without any greater understanding of them or how things really worked.

The premise is sort of this: hundreds of years into the future, mankind has either a) evolved into, or b) created, a new species of sentient live that calls itself Homo Coloris (Or something extremely similar to that, I'm too lazy to look it up right now). This species only sees part of the visible light spectrum at once. Which portion you see dictates a lot of things, from who you are allowed to marry to what jobs you are eligible to hold, to your societal stature or caste, almost. Yellows are police and rule enforcers, purples are leaders and managers, as near I could tell Blues and Reds were your typical middle class workers, and Greys are the lowest you can get. And your color perception within that spectrum also influences things, with the highest perceiving receiving the status of "Prefect", whatever that means. Colors also have all kinds of weird effects on this new species, from curing disease to causing it.

I won't give away any of the actual plot, because I do think it got better. In spite of its slow beginnings, once the book got going (which I would estimate unfortunately to have been just over halfway through), it was extremely enjoyable, even if a bit of a downer. I speculate that this might be Jasper's attempt at writing an "important" book. His Animal Farm, or 1984. It also left me wanting more. Fortunately, there are supposed to be two more books in the series.