BLUE TICKET by Sophie Mackintosh

Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

While browsing through my Kindle books this one caught my eye and I decided to check it out.

In Calla's world, when girls start bleeding they have to pick a ticket. A white ticket leads to marriage and children, a blue ticket means a career and freedom. But years later, while Calla is living her life of 'freedom', she has a change of heart that changes everything...

Sad. Haunting. Devastating.

I have to admit that this book is very disturbing. I always find stories where women are stripped of their right to chose their own paths absolute nightmare fuel. And living during this shaky timeline makes it even worse. Still, I enjoyed Calla's tale because it's original and written in a very unique way.

The narrative is intimately hers. We get snippets of the conversations she has with the people that come and go from her life, but the narrative is in her POV and the story unfolds in a journal/diary style full of her observations and rampant thoughts. Her fears and desires, ramblings.

Sometimes it's hard to be in her head because she can be selfish and awful, not very nice. But other times she's vulnerable and lost, alone in her quest to choose the opposite of what she was assigned.

Either way, I really felt for Calla. Especially after the twist of betrayal is revealed. Her story is bleak and lonely, but what else can it be in a world where women are forced to accept their fate without personal input?

The subject matter is deep and personal to many of us. I liked the way a fictional story about a woman's search for her own choice reveals what happens when you try to control people.


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