Blue Ticket

By Sophie Mackintosh

Book Overview

From the author of the Booker Prize longlisted novel The Water Cure comes another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: What if the life you're given is the wrong one?

Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell's 1984 or Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. --New York Times Book Review

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 marriage and children. A blue ticket grants you a career and 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?

When Calla, a blue-ticket woman, begins to question her fate, she must go on the run. Pregnant and desperate, Calla must contend with whether or not the lottery knows her better than she knows herself--and what that might mean for her child. With Blue Ticket, Sophie Mackintosh has created another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our world that explores the impossible decisions women have to make when society restricts their choices.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1984898906
• ISBN13: 9781984898906
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Really enjoyed this book

I guess a lot of people didn’t like this book due to the writing style or the overall storyline and that’s okay, obviously. If you’ve read Sophie Mackintosh’s first book then you know that that’s just her way of writing, which I personally find very appealing. The story itself is hard to read at times and I can understand how it could be polarizing but overall this is a really great book and I would highly recommend it.

It’s basically bad Handmaid’s Tale Wattpad-like “Fanfiction”

I went in to this book with an open mind because Dystopian stories are usually hit or miss with me and I hoped to like this but....it’s like a 12 year old on Wattpad wrote fanfiction for Handmaid’s Tale....it’s slow, repetitive and the plot in theory sounds good but it was truly awful, I could not bring myself to finish it. There is no proper use of quotations where dialogue is so everything runs together and it makes me wonder how this story was green-lighted with its grammar. I would try a different book in the Dystopian genre and skip over this one