Reviews with content warning for Miscarriage - Blue Ticket

Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh

12 reviews

angietreesea's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Content Warnings

mabs_grace's review against another edition

Go to review page

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Mackintosh makes it really easy to hate all the characters for most of the book. I both read the physical book and listened to the audiobook of this story; I have to admit that I probably would have DNF’d this one if I didn’t have to audiobook.

I really hated Calla pretty well until she gave birth. The fact that she constantly acknowledged that she knew that drinking and smoking is dangerous while pregnant, but stamped down her guilt by saying that her blue ticket destined her to be a bad mother so there was nothing she could do. Really made me angry, but I think that was Mackintosh’s goal.

.

This book was much more sexual than I though it was going to be. I thought Calla would have been more of a heroine like Katniss is the Hunger Game, but that was absolutely not the case.

The society created in this novel was interesting in how it reflects modern day society. Highlighting and building off of the most sexist forms of oppression that exist. Though I appreciated how sexuality was so not an issue.

the sexuality of all of the characters was never explicitly stated nor was there any sexual confusion/enlightenment; the characters just seemed to “fuck” whom every they wanted to, man or woman.

Content Warnings

kendalsbookcase's review against another edition

Go to review page

dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.25

Content Warnings

whimsicalish's review against another edition

Go to review page

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

I am child-free and will (hopefully) always have a choice to be child-free. The main character has the opposite wish from myself. She desperately wants a child and it's heartbreaking to see her struggle.

This book is heavy and depressing. It's a dystopian world, but honestly not far off if you live in the US.

Women are stripped of the choice on morherhood. You get a lottery ticket that says either you will have to be a mother or not. While the book never fully gives a reason or world building to how or why society functions this way, I didn't see it as an issue. It focuses on our character, Calla, as she refuses to accept her blue ticket. It opens discussion on women's advocacy to their bodies. You might think we wouldn't need to discuss this but here we are in 2023.

Content Warnings

rhiannatherad's review against another edition

Go to review page

dark emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated

3.0

Ultimately forgettable - I wish it would've gone a little further. I just didn't care about the characters so by the end didn't care what happened to them. Cool concept though.

Content Warnings

sadiedumplingreads's review

Go to review page

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Content Warnings

nataliebeech's review

Go to review page

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I really enjoyed this book and her writing, but feel like it’s so disappointing you never get an explanation of why the tickets came about? In other dystopian fiction you understand the reasons for the dystopia, and this book it was just not explained at all. Also not explained why the girls have to go through this period of survival as teenagers, why they are separated from their parents in this way. I understand it’s an allegory but also it felt a bit lazy and strange not to explain why. I enjoyed it a lot still but feel a bit robbed…

Content Warnings

eeenou's review against another edition

Go to review page

challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

Content Warnings

bookwhore07's review against another edition

Go to review page

medium-paced

2.5

i wasn’t super into this. the writing was good and engaging, but i felt like the storytelling fell flat at many points and i had trouble sympathizing or caring about any of the characters. i would’ve been much more interested in more perspectives from white ticket women.

Content Warnings

hollokim's review

Go to review page

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Content Warnings

More...