Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh

5 reviews

angietreesea's review against another edition

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Child death, Grief, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Abandonment, Addiction, Death, Abortion, and Alcoholism

fiainkvinna's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy

kendalsbookcase's review against another edition

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Miscarriage

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

nataliebeech's review

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…

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Gaslighting, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Miscarriage

margotnelson's review

dark emotional 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

2.5

I started this book on a whim, and was a little slow getting into it, mainly because the narrator is not especially likeable as a character. However, as the story went on, I wanted to know what would happen and how it would end. It was a quick and intense read, and a subsection of the dystopian genre that I hadn't yet dived into but had potential to be really interesting. Descriptions of the logic of this world felt glossed over in a way that didn't serve the story (i.e. Is the ticketing system just in this one country? Why was it implemented in the first place?) and made for an unsatisfying ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual assault