5 heart wrenching stars. I absolutely loved this book. While not an easy read, it was so powerful and so special to me. As an older sister, this book really hit home in some aspects and really made me feel seen with some of the quotes. The sister dynamics were so emotional and so spot on that I just felt emotional the entire time I read this book.

The Blue sisters are navigating grief and addiction after a loss, and we follow along on their journey. I felt like I was reading about real people with the way Mellors wrote the Blue sisters and the things they went through and experienced. The grieving journey, the addiction struggles, the complicated family dynamics, and themes of sisterhood and healing were told so beautifully. I felt so strongly for these characters and what they went through.

A very real, raw, and emotional read that I know I’ll think of often. This is a book that I’m glad I annotated because I know I’ll want to go back to this more than once. Highly recommend this book, but also highly recommend TW before starting 🩵

Mellors nailed close-knit siblinghood in a way I’ve never encountered before. Any nitpicks I have are overshadowed by the overall experience of being in the blue sister’s world. The latter half was unputdownable. 4.5 stars.
Also, I wish Bonnie Blue was real. Loved her character a lot.

It’s rare for me to come across a book where, from the very first paragraph, I predict it’ll be a five star book, but Blue Sisters did just that.

This was a messy, raw, and heartbreaking portrayal of sisterhood. The writing was absolutely gorgeous. The character work and development was incredible — I felt like I knew the three sisters inside and out.

Sisterhood and grief will always be some of my favorite topics in books, and Blue Sisters did it beautifully. I’ll be recommending this to everyone.

Thanks so much to NetGalley and Random House for an arc in exchange for an honest review!

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC!

All I have to say is I called my sisters numerous times while reading this. Coco Mellors has redeemed herself for me with this gorgeous piece of work.

The family drama was monumental in this one and definitely kept me engaged but it was a little too negative for me. There was only a shed of light at the very end but it was overall heavy. Plus, the chapters were very long.

Thank you NetGalleyand Ballantine Boston ks for this advanced copy of BLUE SISTERS, all open opinions are mine and miine alone.
I enjoyed the character development and sister Dynamics. The story was interesting and kept my interest. I usually choose to avoid books with secual could intent and I do not feel it is necessary to keep my interest but understand the need to show the rawness of the characters. Overall I would recommend this book.

A heart wrenching and fully realized family profile that dealt with grief, addiction, and so much more. A thoroughly human read that I enjoyed from start to finish.

Three estranged sisters at a crossroad in each of their lives' return to their family home a year after their beloved sister's death and through strong words, unraveled secrets, and tears, come out of the other side better for it.

What a lovely read!
There is no relationship like that between sisters. No one can hurt you or love you in the way a sister can and Blue Sisters showcases that exact idea. With only 12 (albeit very long) chapters, Blue Sisters is relatively quick but thorough in profiling Avery, Lucky, and Bonnie. I rooted for them, wanted to yell at them, and loved them as if they were my own sisters. Nicole's absence is felt immensely throughout but seeing their growth and accepting of this new reality was so powerful.

I can't recommend it enough.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for my advanced reader's electronic copy in exchange for my honest review.

I love this author's writing. There are a few scenes in this novel that hit me as absolutely pitch perfect. I maybe didn't love it quite as much as her debut, but I still devoured it in only a few days.

I wasn't quite sure how I would feel about this book. I had heard great things of "Cleopatra and Frankenstein", but I had a hard time immersing myself in the story. However, blue sisters outshined Cleopatra for me and was just what I needed. Blue Sisters follows the stories of three sisters of New York, 1 year after their beloved sister Nicky has passed away. It is a tale of grief, love, hate, and navigating trauma. It was a reminder for me that we all grieve in very different ways, there is no right or wrong way. Follow Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky as they navigate these tricky waters and learn how to "fall in love with life again."

Three sisters reconnect a year after the death of their fourth sister. There's a simple summary. However, Blue Sisters from Coco Mellors deserves so much more.

The Blue sisters were all special. Avery is the oldest and the most type-A...until she ran off to San Francisco, got addicted to heroin, and was homeless. After a year of this, she cleaned up, went to law school, and now lives in London with her wife. Bonnie was a champion boxer until she ran to LA after a devastating loss. Nicky was the sweet one everyone loved. She wasn't the best at anything in particular, but she was so well-loved by everyone who met her. Lucky was the baby who left home at 15 for a modeling career.

Avery, Bonnie and Lucky are all fighting their own battles when the one year anniversary of Nicky's death arrives. Eventually the women make their way to the family apartment and must reconcile with the truth about Nicky and about themselves.

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In the prologue of this book, a line has stayed with me : True sisterhood, the kind where you grew fingernails in the same womb, were pushed screaming through identical birth canals, is not the same as friendship.

As the fourth of five sisters, I was drawn to the complicated relationships Coco Mellors was able to capture with a raw realness. It's painful dealing with sisters. You fall into the same roles that you always have the minute you are all together. I still do it with my own. Old memories of fights still linger. The Blue sisters are still the same little girls who had to protect each other their entire life. They all are addicts - of a variety of things.

I found this story to be painful and beautiful at the same time. The grief bleeds off the page and you can't help but hope the women will each get over themselves and connect to honor their fallen sister. I could read another book about the years in between because the characters created are all imperfect and growing. Mellors has done with again with Blue Sisters.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the opportunity to read and review this wonderful book.

This is not my typical read, as I most often like to lose myself in a low stakes romance or easy mystery, but I am so glad I received this arc and had the opportunity to step out of my comfort zone here. I was absolutely hooked from the very first page. There is something uniquely tragic about the fellowship of sisterhood that Mellors captures so honestly. I will be thinking about this one for a long time.

I knew this would be a favorite before I even reached the halfway mark. My favorite thing a writer can do is articulate a feeling I've never been able to express myself—and Coco Mellors managed to do that on nearly every page of Blue Sisters. The writing is so succinct, beautiful, and honest; each word chosen with the utmost care. She knows exactly where to place humor to lighten the mood, yet still make it feel natural. Mellors takes what seems like an ordinary scene and gives it so much weight and meaning. The novel is an incredible exploration of sisterhood, grief, addiction, generational trauma, and what it truly means to be a person struggling. I loved that we met the characters where they were and gradually came to know them so intimately as they fell apart and eventually pulled themselves back together. They were so carefully crafted that it felt like reading a memoir; I almost wanted to google them to see where they are now. I'll truly never forget the Blue Sisters.

Blue Sisters is an exploration of sisterhood, estranged family dynamics, and the impacts of addiction. Coco Mellors portrays the lives of three young women, Lucky, Avery, and Bonnie, who are grappling with the loss of their beloved sister Nicole, and the aftermath of enduring their turbulent childhood marked by substance abuse. We are invited into the women’s innermost thoughts and fears throughout the novel, and we experience the dysfunctional modes in which they slowly self-destruct, while attempting to rebuild their tenuous connection. With a contemplative pen, Mellors examines grief and the feelings of regret and guilt one often feels after the death of a loved-one.
This story changed and healed parts of me that I’d long forgotten and buried deep within me. The desire to be close to one’s sisters while simultaneously wanting to carve out an individual identity is something many women will relate to. After reading I felt a keen awareness that love and pain must coexist, and it’s impossible to have one without the other. The things we love can cause us to hurt, and the presence of pain aids us in loving more deeply. Mellors convinces us that the love of one’s kin carries beyond the physical plane, and that a bond forged between sisters transcends life and death.

first of all, thank you to the publishers and netgalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review! i was really excited to get approved for this one — i loved cleopatra & frankenstein, and the blue sisters did not disappoint.

this book was beautiful and sad and equal parts heartwrenching and heartwarming. i've grown tired of comparisons to other books unless deliberately stated by the author, because i think to call this a version of little women means to cast it in the shadow of something it isn't. like, yes, it's a story about four sisters and their bonds — but those kinds of comparisons always come with the expectation that the characters and relationships will be similar, and that isn't the case here.

which is great, because this book is wonderful all on its own. as with cleopatra & frankenstein, the writing is beautiful. i also found the characters, while often unlikable, to be that much more real and three-dimensional for it. the complex relationships between the sisters and their stories both individually and in the greater context of the family were at times really difficult to read about it, but compelling all the same. i found avery's pov to be the least entertaining or relatable to me personally, but obviously she is a crucial and necessary part of the book that makes the story full.

overall, this was a standout for me. i'm sad now but i'm also not? bittersweet is probably the word. in a really beautiful way.

This is a tender, yet deeply tragic book about three remarkable sisters trying to move on from the death of their other sister. I have brothers, only one of which I grew up with, so I was drawn to this book with a sense of longing. I adore stories about the bonds of sisters and this book holds nothing back.

The Blue sisters are each unique in their own way. Avery, a former addict, turned her life around and became a lawyer. Bonnie, once a champion boxer, now works as a bouncer. Lucky, the youngest, a model with incredible substance abuse issues. Each of them is still reeling from the death of Nicky, even a year later. Faced with the news that their childhood home is being put on the market, they all race away from the demons in their current lives to join up at this apartment that holds so so many memories... good and bad.

Through snapshots of their lives, we get this slow build to the whole picture of each of the three sisters' lives, gaining better understanding along the way each of them. Their motives, their struggles, their triumphs. The way they deal with loss and addiction, the way they interact with one another... it all culminates into this beautiful story that I sobbed through. The desire for this book not to end was guttural. The Blue sisters have left a lasting impression on me.

Amazing and heart wrenching tale of sisters Avery, Bonnie, Nicky, and Lucky Blue. Coco Mellors delves deeply into dysfunctional families, addiction, love, and angst as the lives of three of the sisters appear to fall apart following Nicky’s fatal overdose. Each of the sisters feel a sense of responsibility for their sister’s death; believing they could and should have done more, been more aware, more present to prevent Nicky’s death.

This is one of the most beautifully written books I’ve read recently. It’s an emotional roller coaster with a happy ending as the sisters finally find peace within themselves and their relationship with each other.

I am pretty much always into a family drama, particularly between siblings, so Blue Sisters is very much in my wheelhouse. It starts with a moving prologue introducing the reader to fours sisters and then jumps to the one-year anniversary of the third sister Nicky's death. Avery, the oldest, is a lawyer living in London, married, feeling boxed in as her wife is pushing on their future of having children. Bonnie, the second sister, is a champion boxer who now finds herself in Los Angeles as a bouncer wondering if her emotions got the best of her when confronting a patron. Lucky, the youngest, is a famous model in Paris barely holding her career together as she takes more and more drugs.

The sisters receive notice from their mother, who they have a complicated relationship with, to say the least, that she is selling their NYC apartment. The same apartment that Nicky was living in when she died. The three sisters convene in New York as each of their lives is hitting a turning point. Intense fights and long held grievances come to light. Each sister is well-developed and I could understand how they each reached their current point in life. This is a great read. I had read Mellors' previous book Cleopatra and Frankenstein which I enjoyed but this is leaps and bounds better in my opinion and has won me over as a fan and I can't wait to read what she comes up with next.

Thank you to Ballantine Books for the advance reader copy in exchange for honest review.

This book hurt me in a way that I don't think a book has ever hurt me before. I am the youngest of 4 girls so I related so much to Lucky's struggles. I saw a bit of myself in all the sisters. Each one had such a unique yet complex story. These are the type of characters that will stick with me for the rest of my life. I am in absolute awe that I got to read this book early. I will read anything Coco Mellors' writes. She is truly a masterclass. I have no words other than PLEASE read this.

firstly, thank you to the publisher for an arc!

oh jeez, i’m hysterical crying from that epilogue…

when i read coco mellors’ debut novel i was intrigued by the chaotic characters but not necessarily impressed by them. why are cleo and frank the way they are? they were just weird and chaotic to no end, and to me, had no true growth

but her sophomore novel blew me away. sure, there’s the same chaos from her debut, but it feels more impactful? the blue sisters are self destructive and chaotic but mellors gives us the background as to why they are the way they are. not only that but they all acknowledge their vices and struggle to do what’s best for them in spite of the pain.

mellors writes sisterhood and life in such a beautifully impactful and imperfect way. i loved the blue sisters and wanted more, more, more. i wish we got more of nicky, and i think that’s the whole point — when you love someone, you take for granted all the time you think you have until you don’t have anymore.

The humanness of being messy. The messiness of being human.

Synopsis: “Blue Sisters” follows three sisters — boxer Bonnie, lawyer Avery and model Lucky — as they mourn the unexpected loss of their sister, Nicky. The story explores the journeys of grief, addiction, betrayal, childhood disappointment and family dynamics.

What I liked: Sometimes I forgot I was reading fiction, as the dialogue and journeys felt so real, relatable and emotional. I don’t have any sisters of my own, but the themes with family still resonated.

What I disliked: Not a downside for me, but some readers may dislike that this is more of a “vibes and journey” type of book, rather than a firm plot with a specific climax/conflict.

This book is for you if… you like great writing and want your heart to be ripped out just a little bit.

Thank you to #NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for the advanced reader copy of #BlueSisters.