Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh

7 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

honestlyholly's review against another edition

challenging sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This had some excellent commentary on a woman's right to choose whether she has/wants children or not. It was honestly a realistic dystopia; I can imagine in America they would operate a lottery system that dictated who was allowed to have children, and of course, only the women would be controlled!

The only thing I was slightly disappointed in was the epilogue? It said it was a dream, but was it real? Idk.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Abortion, Domestic abuse, and Blood

Minor: Murder

annalucy29's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Abortion, Blood, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

juvonh's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

A great feminist dystopian novel. If you enjoy the works of Atwood, I highly recommend Mackintosh‘s Blue Ticket.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Drug use, and Gaslighting

Minor: Abortion

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

rosenaughtin's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? No

3.5

I loved this book for the writing, not so much for the plot. Sophie Mackintosh is a master of dark, mysterious prose, but it didn't translate as well in this novel as in the closed-off world of The Water Cure. There was just too much of the unexplained and nonsensical in her dystopia, and it was hard to get into because of that. It was tense and exciting at times and kept me invested until the end, but I craved more context and character development. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Misogyny

erand92's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Definitely in the tone of Margaret Atwood and Shirley Jackson's The Lottery if you are into that kind of thing. Mackintosh is a new voice of the generation, and I imagine her style will be quite devisive. Personally, I love it. She is commenting on womanhood and the challenges that meet us in a way that is both horrifying and rings so true it is uncomfortable. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Self harm

Minor: Infertility

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