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and haunting. Lovely writing. Odd in the very best kind of way,

RTC if I can gather my scattered thoughts, . . L'idea di base è buona ed interessante ma viene poi sviluppata MALISSIMO, I personaggi sono piatti e scritti male e tutto si risolve in maniera confusionaria,
Diciamo che Sophie Mackintosh poteva fare molto, molto meglio!
La narrazione di Calla poi è spesso veramente pesante e fastidiosa.
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Sophie Mackintosh ile 'Su Kürü' kitabıyla tanışmıştım, hayran kalmıştım, Bu kitabıyla da beni yanıltmadı, Yine muazzam. Bence herkesler onun kalemiyle tanışmalı,

Kadın dünyasına distopya ile çol vurucu bir şekilde ayna tutuyor, Bir dünya düşünün ki kadınlar ergenlik çağında mavi ya da beyaz bilet çekerek kaderini tayin ediyorlar.
Tamamen rastlantı tamamen şans. Beyaz biletliyseniz şayet bir aile kurabilir, bebek sahibi olabilirsiniz ama asla özgür değilsiniz, boşanamaz, çalışamazsınız.
Fakat eğer mavi bilet çektiyseniz tam bir özgür kadınsınız, tek farkla aile kuramaz çocuk sahibi olamazsınız.
Asla tercih ve değişim hakkınız yok,

Böylesi bir dünyadan kadın ve anne olmanın zorluklarını okuyoruz,

Sophie Mackintosh çok ümit vadeden bir yazar daha ilk kitabı ile Man Booker 'da finalist olan bir yazardan bahsediyorum.

Muhakkak tanışmalısınız,

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Calla goes against everything the blue ticket

defines her life to be, but she doesn't do it in the way one might expect.
She isn't motherly, she has no natural instinct to care about a child, let alone herself, She's unreliable, a drinker, selfish, and at times I questioned her mental stability, She is determined though and with determination comes an interesting, albeit difficult to picture, journey to try to chase the life she wants to create for herself and her unborn child.
I wasn't in love with this book, the writing style, page breaks, and lack of dialogue really were hard to get used to, but something about it was riveting.
You never really get to know Calla, there's no true description of where the events take place, even the secondary characters feel too far out of reach to picture, and yet I couldn't stop reading.
It was strange, unique, and at times quite terrible, but to say Blue Ticket was a bad book just isn't true.
It wasn't entirely for me, but I can absolutely see the draw for others,

The book has some GREAT lines though, so highlightable:

"My want had been cracked open, Now I'd have to look inside and see, "

"Let it into you, I thought there, in the moments before she pulled me up and kissed me on the mouth for the first time.
Let it into you. "

ARC provided. The good: Mackintoshs writing is atmospheric and evocative, with a subtle note of violence,

The bad: Plotting, character development and worldbuilding were a disappointment for me, The book also gets too many logistical and medical details on pregnancy and birth wrong Examples: no postbirth lochia ! a character manages to wear the same pair of jeans for the duration of pregnancy the timing of the "first kick" is unrealistic in relation to size of belly etc etc.


A pity, as the firstpages or so were perfection,

Mood: Atmospheric
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Calla knows how the lottery works.
Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be.
A white ticket grants you children, A blue ticket grants you freedom, You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice, And, once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back,

But what if the life you're given is the wrong one

Blue Ticket is a devastating enquiry into free will and the fraught space of motherhood.
Bold and chilling, it pushes beneath the skin of female identity and patriarchal violence, to the point where human longing meets our animal bodies.
This book is seriously disturbing,

This book is feminism nightmare fuel,

I finished this book atin the morning because I needed it to be over and there was no possible way of DNFing it because I just needed it to be cleansed from my headspace, out of my soul.


The only way out was through,

If "The Road" and "Handmaid's Tale" got together and had a baby, this is what it looks like.
Both stories, in comparison, feel a million times more uplifting then this dark, twisted, traumatizing brood,

You know how people always have that one episode of Black Mirror that hits just too close to home It's not even entertaining, it just twists you up inside.
This was one of those episodes for me, A dystopian hellscape that's not farfetched enough it has the potential to be seen in our lifetimes,

What if women didn't have a choice between a career and a family What if that choice was made when you were a child If the government had autonomy over a woman's body completely, telling them who can and cannot get pregnant What if a woman decided she wanted more for herself and rebelled, sending her out on the lam with little understanding of what was about to happen to her

I was desperate for a glint of humanity in this dark void, pit of despair story.
Something to give me hope that if this tyrannical form of existence came to fruition, there was a shred of decency that would somehow live on.
Alas, there was very little, Reading this felt like watching a puppy get kicked, Just really upsetting, lingering bad feelings,

If I had a physical copy of this book I would bury it in my yard and dance on its grave.
Then I would go inside and drink a cup of tea, hands shaking, telling myself it's going to be ok, it can't hurt you anymore.


Somebody get me a romcom, a DIY for knitters, a book about a unicorn, a calendar of sexy firemen playing with kittens.
A beer. Something to cleanse my palette and get this soulsucking, paranoia inducing shitshow out of my system,

Obviously,stars. Because not everyday a book rocks you to your core enough to make you want to seek revenge on an inanimate object.


Thank you to netgalley for providing me with a digital copy in exchange for an honest review, sitelinkI talk about the book in a YouTube video aswell,

This book is bemusing, to say the least, It has such an interesting premise but I felt let down by the actual story, We're told pretty much from the beginning that the assigning of tickets is from a lottery, so I'm not sure why after the lottery happens we're subjected toof Calla's ramblings and how she was meant to be a mother and how 'x thought' or 'y thought' meant she was good enough or not.
It's a damn lottery and it wasn't based on any factor of being a human being It's also boring that the person who doesn't get chosen to be a mother wants to be a mother.
Like yes, of course, there's room for loads of exploration in that but it's straight forward and boring, particularly because Calla was boring.
Your typical 'I don't care about anything' attitude, only to find surprise she does care and she does want a baby.


The book also lacked a lot of worldbuilding, you don't know anything about the state of the world in this book, why are the women assigned tickets Why do those assigned blue tickets have to then go out in the world and "make it on their own" they are like! The world they live in is the same as ours but we never find out what is happening and what society is like in general.
The writing by large promotes a very disjointed feel, and this is okay in some cases but I didn't like the story so I felt even further detached from it.
Calla reads like a thirteenyearold girl who is trying to be dark and mysterious and if you're just not after that it's really hard to connect with her or the book.


The book wants to talk about motherhood and choice but I think it's very poorly executed, This book is also very largely an on the road trip which was weird and wild, I think it very much wanted to bring out the wilderness and basic human/savage aspect but it's a bit trite now and it goes on for a bit too long.
That along with other women who joined their merry band was just overkill, I was close to DNFing this but carried on with it as the writing was easy to get through, AboutI found a bit more enjoyment in the book as I think it found a good balance between Calla's thoughts and thoughts on motherhood.
However, in the end, it was the books attempt to be brusque so often that made this unenjoyable for me.
Oh no! For a long time I didnt give any book two and I didnt get disappointed by a book but well you cannot always get what you wish for.


For celebrating empowerment of women I chose this reading for this special day and of course that beautiful, haunted, effective cover stole my heart from the first look but as soon as I flip the pages and try to get lost in this dystopian, disturbing, eerie story, I didnt get the special and rare taste that I was looking for.


Maybe I wanted to be charmed by some special world with its authoritarian manifesto, ruled by a group of despots force the women doing choice without their freewill and consent kind of earth shattering, thoughtprovoking reading.
Especially when I read the promotions indicate this book is some kind of smart Atwoodish masterpiece, it made me more curious and I couldnt wait to get this into my hands.
But there are too many things failed me in this book which are:

Lack of worldbuilding: I got that story takes place in a dystopian alternated universe and when the girls start to menstruate, theyre taken to the hospital to be checked and join the lottery to get their card which will define their future.
There are two types of future determined by two different colored tickets,

BLUE TICKET means theyre free because theyre not going to mothers!! They can work and they can contribute to the system.


WHITE TICKET means they are not free anymore, Theyre gonna be mothers and wives,
Well, sorry but this kind of logic didnt make any sense of me so from the start, my head filled with tons of question marks and as you may imagine I couldnt find any proper worldbuilding and of course dialogueless storytelling style and sharp endings of the chapters, lack of curiosity and mystery are the other factors I couldnt have any connection with the storys progression.
I also didnt give a damn about the drama of heroines whirlwind life story,

I think writing about powerful motherhood and having your own free will about your body and reproductive system are popular trends for strengthening the feminism manifesto and emphasizing the place the women deserve in the world by putting spotlight of their crucial problems.
But I found this books approach to the matter and writing style lack of emotions, dull and flat,

So I designated myself a lonely place in the minority by being not big fan of this book.


Special thanks to NetGalley and Doubleday Books for sharing this ARC with me in exchange my honest review.
I wish I could enjoy it because I was so excited to read this from the beginning but unfortunately it didnt fulfill my expectations.


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sitelinktwitter “My husband found out, He didnt believe it was an accident, He was disgusted with me, But it wasnt his body, ” Blue Ticket, Sophie Mackintosh.

So, I was expecting to savour this novel like I savour the taste of Mcdonalds French Fries but alas, I did not.
I was severely disappointed with the content of the novel that the author had handed to me because I could recognise so much of potential in the idea and the world the author was trying to create but somehow, both of them managed to get lost in the pages of the novel.


If you enjoy a dystopian world without any worldbuilding or history as to why the system works the way it does, this might be the book for you but it definitely isnt the book for me.
There were only a couple of information thrown around in the novel that could give me a grasp on the system of the world and those were:

There is a lottery that dictates womens entire life.
You may get a BlueTicket which signifies freedom BUT you are not to get pregnant, You may get a WhiteTicket and your only purpose is to give birth I think It is not very clear on that end.


If you get pregnant as a BlueTicket, you are instantly an exile and your fellow BlueTickets will hate on you and try to murder you

Men hate getting BlueTicket women pregnant and will not hold any responsibility for that matter

WhiteTicket women hate BlueTicket women who have gotten themselves pregnant.


If you have done good in the community, the emissaries will give you a head starthours to run away and hide before they come to find you.


Oh, I almost forgot, when you get your first bleed, you are required to go to the town you have in mind without any help from the adults.
So, yeah that is basically it, Those question marks gave nods to my very confused brain,

“I told him instead that Id had agency over the things I had done all through my life, even if not over everything that had been done to me.
I told him I was not a branch being broken in a stream, carried along by the water until it snapped.
I told him he should give my baby back to me, ” Blue Ticket, Sophie Mackintosh.

We follow Callas perspective throughout the novel and I thought the beginning was interesting because it shows the desperation of Calla trying to shed her childhood by taking lots of milk and peanut butter to get her first bleed.
It was as if she is trying to get away from her father but at the same time, not trying to get away from her father because the first page of the novel shows how much her father loves her.
It is very confusing and I dont know how to feel, Then, in her adult life, she drinks a lot, smokes a lot and starts developing this dark feeling which is to have her own baby and family.
She proceeds to use this dude, who is an asshole to say the least, to get the baby, She then turns into a fugitive and she is on the run from the emissaries, I thought everything was interesting up until I reached the section where she decides to settle in the cabin, That section manages to slow everything down, Almost nothing happens most of the time during her stay in the cabin and that made me want to rip my eyeballs out.


This novel should have gotten multiple perspectives to give a wider view on the world, For example, a perspective from a WhiteTicket woman, a perspective from the emissary and a perspective from a man in a high position.
This would have provided an insight on the world and also, enhance our perception on how brainwashed everyone is, I thought it was not particularly right to limit the perspective to Calla alone because she is not that interesting of a character and her motives are confusing and most of the time, I do not understand why she did what she did.
In addition, there isnt any character development in the novel which further proves the point of getting more POVs,

The author has a readable writing style that will make you read the novel compulsively as you have the urge to know what is coming next.
Other than that, the writing style is also very beautiful which will make you crave for more of it but unfortunately, the story isnt very good and I wish there is a better ending for this novel because I did not like that ending because the ending makes it seem like Calla would conveniently give up stuff instead of fighting for it and also, it makes it seem like the book is pointless.


Ultimately, I understand the message the author is trying to convey, She wants us to perceive the misogyny in the world where women have no control over their freedom, their body and their choice and how extremely infuriating it is.
This dystopian world that she has created intersects with the real world albeit the weak worldbuilding, Several quotes in this novel perfectly showcase the real world and it is so frustrating to see how we are living inand yet, misogyny is still a thing.
Thus, I thought the message was delivered well,

Final Verdict:D

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