This is a character-driven novel that lives up to all the hype! I was hesitant to read it because of the heavy topics, but it drew me in almost instantly. Lovely prose.

This was a compelling book that was hard to put down. A great story of three sisters navigating life and bad decisions after the death of their beloved sister.

The first 3/4 of the book were very slow moving for me. I really enjoyed the last 1/4 immensely though. This is just my personal thoughts, as I have a hard time reading about people making continual poor choices.

Thanks to Netgalley for a chance to read this book! Honestly adored it, and really loved the chance to dig into each sisters story. I wish they were able to communicate better in the thick of all the struggles, but if that isn’t accurate true life I don’t know what is.

I loved this book, and at first was skeptical that I would buy the writing pulled through. I loved the exploration of lucky especially and would have read an entire other book following her specifically

This book, I was not prepared emotionally for this one but I loved it. This story follows the life of 4 sisters and tells a story of family trauma, sisterly bonding and grief. Three sisters alive and struggling to come to terms with their sister’s death. Where death and grief bring some together, it seems to have created an international sized rift for the remaining Blue sisters. Three POVs and three stories of grief and introspection beautifully captured and balanced. Through these three sisters we learn more about the life, and death, of their sister Nicky. When the remaining Blue sisters return to their home to prevent it from being sold they are able to process the grief of loss and begin to be honest to each other and more importantly, to themselves.

Check trigger warnings on this one, heavy substance abuse/addiction topics throughout. As someone who has seen how substance abuse and addiction can wreak havoc on a family system this book resonated with me profoundly.

Thank you to Random House Group - Ballantine Books and Netgalley for gifting me a copy (out now!), all opinions are my own.

This was a highly anticipated read for me, I love Cleopatra and Frankenstein. This one started out kind of slow for me and took me a little bit to get into it. But once I was hooked. I love the honesty in the portrayal of an addict and the different family dynamics.

Oh my god my heart! I loved these sisters and their stories! Definitely buying all of the books this author writes now!

This book was a story about sisterhood, grief, addiction, trauma, and identity. It follows three sisters, Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky one year after the unexpected death of the fourth sister, Nicky. They are estranged from their parents, especially their alcoholic father. But they always had each other, a group of four. With the death of Nicky, they each struggle with grief in their own ways and with finding a new dynamic as a group of three. The sisters all find themselves back in New York to sort through Nicky's belongings and find their way back to each other.

I loved that each chapter was through the POV of a different sister. It really helped you get to know each sister and their relationships with each other. The writing made them feel so real and how different but also alike they all were in their addictions, albeit to different things. We see how they each navigate their grief and try to honor their late sister as they move forward. I loved Coco Mellors' depiction of sisters and the bond they all share, especially as someone with a sister myself.

Coco this hurt my feelings!!!! Thank you!!!!

As a sister and sad gal, this was written for me I think. I love Coco’s characterization and storytelling and I will be thinking about these gals for a long time.

Oh wow. What an absolutely stunning novel.

This was my first time reading Coco Mellors and I was honestly nervous that Blue Sisters wouldn't live up to the hype that I was hearing. And I'm so happy to report I was wrong.

The Blue Sisters were full of rich, realistic women and Mellors wasn't afraid to shy away from their flaws. In fact, I think her best work was highlighting and diving into those moments—exploring the why behind their actions. Even if the characters themselves couldn't fully articulate it, either.

Mellors has such a rich, authentic look at grief as well. The regret, the anger, the heartbreak—all bled on every single page. I was blown away. This book had love dripping off every page. I loved the Blue sisters like they were my own friends, my own family. I don't know if I can truly articulate how this book made me feel. But I was sobbing, laughing, and just felt so moved.

Honestly, this is one of my top novels of the year and I cannot recommend it enough to everyone.

This book had all the things I love in a novel. Complicated, imperfect families navigating mundane and big events with a strong sense of place (loved the New York, London, and Paris scenes). Since I finished this, it’s been hard to get into something new because I’m still in the Blue sisters’ world.

I wanted so badly to love this book. I’m currently grieving the passing of my father and I thought I could resonate with this book on that fact… Nope. I just wanted more from this. I didn’t like any of the sisters. I felt like they used their upbringing as an excuse for being crappy adults. My father was an alcoholic my entire life and while it did cause me anxiety, I did not turn into a drug addict. So the fact that 2/4 sisters turned into addicts because of their upbringing… I just can’t get into it. The one sister refusing to get a hysterectomy to help with her chronic pain but turns to pain medicine instead… She has 3 sisters, she could have frozen her eggs and asked one of them to surrogate. I feel like the extreme want of a child was not enough of a reason for her to deny herself the relief she could have gotten from the surgery. I don’t know… I DNF’d at like 30% because these girls are all insufferable.

This is an emotionally resonant story that dives deep into the complexities of familial bonds, addiction and personal growth. I struggled with the pacing later in the book but vivid characterizations and the heartfelt exploration of relationships makes it a worthwhile read.

i am such a fan of this book. as someone with two older sisters, it really was such a great read (though i think it’d be a great read for anyone, siblings or not) such incredible writing, and even better characters

The Blue sisters shared a traumatic childhood, marred by their father's occasionally violent alcoholism and parents' constant battling. That trauma was compounded a year ago when their sister, Nicky, died of an overdose--when none of them even knew she used drugs. Now their mother wants to sell their childhood home, and the three surviving sisters are thrown back into crisis.

Avery, the eldest, and a recovering heroin addict, seems to lead a perfect life in London, with a successful legal career and beautiful wife. But Avery is hiding secrets--smoking and shoplifting habits and recently, an affair with a man. Bonnie, meanwhile, abandoned her boxing career to become a bouncer in LA. And the seemingly aptly named Lucky is barely holding on to her modeling career due to her extreme partying.

As the sisters reunite, they battle their individual and collective demons and come out on the other side...mainly better. This is a sobering account of addiction and sisterhood that will make you examine your own family relationships and genetics. #BlueSisters #NetGalley

I found this to be a really compelling, thoughtful story about three adult sisters, all struggling at life, as they grapple with the absence of their fourth sister, even a year after her death.
The characters were well-developed and came across as flawed but earnest, and worth the time to read about.
Thanks to #netgalley and #ballantinebooks for this #arc of #bluesisters by #cocomellors in exchange for an honest review.

This Read with Jenna pick grapples with grief and addiction and how they can reshape a life. I didn’t really LIKE any of the women, except maybe Bonnie, and struggled to connect with them. They were so self-centered, but I think that was the point. Mellors shows the insolation of addiction and how unresolved grief can lead to unhealthy choices. The sisters were haunted by their pasts and each one had to come to terms with themselves to find some sort of forgiveness. I didn’t LOVE this one, perhaps because the messaging felt a little heavy-handed. There was something missing to me but I struggle to say what it was. Perhaps it felt a little too contrived and over-explained.

Blue Sisters <3 Coco Mellors really has a way with writing characters that you just love. They're so deeply flawed, but you can see yourself in them. Blue Sisters is a story of grief and finding yourself through the grieving process. The story is based around three sisters who are estranged but find themselves reunited after the loss of their sister. This story is character driven with each chapter being told from a different pov (Lucky, Bonnie, and Avery).

There were so many elements explored during this book - grief, addiction, loss, sexuality, growth, family dynamics. The list goes on.
Each element was approached with such an interesting and different take by each sister which made this book so hard to put down.

So so good!! I'll read anything Coco Mellors writes.

Blue Sisters is one of the best books I've read all year! This story of three adult sisters who are all brilliant women, mourning the loss of a sibling, raised by parents who were not attentive, captivated me from the first page. Each of the girls has handled the pain of irregular parenting and, more recently, the death of a sister, in different ways. In some cases, their choices are very dangerous.

This book had me in tears, laughing out loud, and also terrified at times. Book clubs will love Blue Sisters! I'm looking forward to reading many more books by Coco Mellors. Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this excellent book!