Jethran Frye is born with color in a monochrome world. Deemed a flaw and marked for incineration, he soon discovers that his flaw is his greatest strength. Guided by his companion Fable, Jethran encounters the Seven Songs, the Lost Guardians of the Forgotten Hues of Feeling. Armed with the magic of Spectrasy, Jethran faces the tyrannical ruler, the Uncrowned King, to free Evenhere from his insidious Gray Order. As each restored color draws the Gray Order closer, Jethran must risk the people he loves and his own body, while all of the parts of himself he was taught to hide become a source of vibrancy and light. Jethran battles with no sword, but with emotional intelligence and radical vulnerability.
The Shards of Color Trilogy · Volume One
Blush Born
Paperback $20.98
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Jeff B White
Reader Response
- Pre-Publication Metrics from Readerful
- Achieved a Hook Score of 46 for its ability to captivate readers.
- Final metrics captured a 95 percent retention rate from the first chapter to its conclusion.
- 90 percent read-through rate into the sequel, A Faded Quest.
- 45 percent read-through rate across the entire trilogy.
Early Critical Validation from Ready Chapter 1
- Early versions of chapters one through seven received Story Scores ranging from 80 to 100.
- Chapter One achieved a perfect score of 100 and became a finalist in the August Pro Agent Challenge.
- Ready Chapter 1 Top 10 for 2025.
Global Reception
- Verified pre-publication metrics from Readerful reported active readership in Singapore, Vietnam, South Korea, the Philippines, Brazil, and across South America.
- Micro-trending was reported in Germany, Finland, France, and throughout Europe, including a viral spike in Andorra.
- Podstatus reported that the Find Your Colors podcast reached the number six position on the Fiction charts in Slovakia on Apple Podcasts.
Who Is Jethran Frye?
For a while, I thought that Jethran Frye was supposed to represent me in the story. Now that it's completed, I look back and I see that that's not me. He represents my journey. He represents what I've been through and how I've come out to the other side. He does not represent me. He is actively my shadow self. He is a gray-skinned boy trying to integrate all of the parts of himself so that he can be the colorful, bright, and vibrant individual that he was always meant to be.
The people in the world of his story are living as unintegrated versions of themselves because they lack the emotional language to reach inward. They mark him as a flaw because he represents all of the truth that they cannot speak about themselves. He is the thing that threatens the lie that allows them to remain comfortable with their existence.
Far too often in life, I am one who is simply unable to accept the comfortable lies that allow us all to just live. I need the authenticity of my emotions and truth of my own colorful reality in order to be a part of this reality. That bothers people. It tells them something's wrong with me. Maybe there is. Or maybe living our true colors is what we need.
In the same way that I do, Jethran finally becomes unable to contain the truth of his emotions any longer, and despite how uncomfortable the world may feel, he finally releases it. And in doing so he colors his entire world and everyone in it.
