How will you go lightly? I’ll ponder this question for the rest of my life.

Blue Sisters was such a special reading experience. It’s about many things, but most importantly grief, love, sisters (family) and identity. Mellors is so great at writing characters juggling a balancing act of happy, tragic and hopeful, something I think we all do and are. We are all the choices we make and sometimes our choice is destruction, whether intentional or not. I love stories that feel human and that hold a mirror, and this book does that in a gorgeous way. I don’t think anyone tells stories like this author does.

I recommend to everyone! I didn’t want it to end. Thank you so much to Random House and Netgalley for the arc! Blue Sisters will be published in the US on September 3rd. Pre-order now! I can’t wait to have my copy! 🩵

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! As someone who has a really close relationship with my sisters, I really empathized deeply with the characters. I’ve also experienced grief and it was so well portrayed, same thing with addiction. It was written about with such grace and not the typical stereotypes. Coco Mellors really understands sisterhood and humanity and life and addition and grief. 100/10 recommend!

an emotional and beautiful story about four sisters, this one ripped my heart out a little bit 😭 i was itching for something different, something unlike the books i've been reading lately & it did not disappoint. the attention to detail, the way i didn't want to put this down & how coco mellors was able to make these characters feel so real and human.. i could tell this one was special from the start. i adore her writing and loved the different povs and was invested in each sisters story throughout. thank you random house & netgalley for the arc 🤍 this cover is so pretty & i can't wait to add it to my shelves in september

Four estranged sisters. One dies, and the other three return to their family home, and try to stop it from being sold. This story is about the remaking three sisters, a year after their sister Nikki’s death. It is about their differences, heartbreak, grief, and lives. An exceptional multiview story.

I loved this! The writing was gorgeous, the characters were so real and raw and flawed. A lovely exploration of grief and sisterhood.

Welcome to the heartfelt, cry-your-eyes-out, teary, angsty story of the Blue Sisters, which reminded me of a modern tale of the March sisters with horrible, self-absorbed parents!

This is a captivating sisterhood saga and tale of a dysfunctional family where three sisters, living in different cities and leading their own paths, deal with the grief of Nicky’s first death anniversary.

Each sister has a different approach to the hand the world dealt them. The eldest sister, Avery, graduated from Columbia, experienced a breakdown with drug addiction, joined a cult, slept on the streets, and had a quick awakening to rewrite her life story. She became a successful lawyer, found her beautiful wife, and now lives in domestic bliss at the age of 33. Avery is the analytical, reasonable one and often the real mother to the girls due to their own mother’s lack of maternal instincts.

Bonnie, the second daughter, 31, had a brief connection with their alcoholic father, who tried to raise her as the son he never had. He paid for her boxing classes, which led to her rising and falling career as a boxer. After a devastating defeat, she changed careers to become a bouncer in LA, channeling her resentments and missed opportunities into physical pain. She is the stoic one of the family.

Nicky, the sister they are grieving, was the most joyful one. She found happiness in little things, was more sentimental and caring, and was a good teacher. She suffered from endometriosis and bore her pain alone until the day she died.

The youngest sister, Lucky, 24, never considered herself lucky despite her early success as a model at the age of 14. She earned big money, traveled around the world, and filled her emptiness with alcohol and drugs until her body gave out.

The common thread among them is their reliance on addictive behaviors to cope with their grief, unhappiness, and hatred for their dysfunctional family. Avery is a kleptomaniac, Bonnie is addicted to pain, and Lucky is an alcoholic and drug addict, though they have not confessed this to anyone, not even themselves.

When their parents decide to sell the two-bedroom family house they grew up in and tell them to share their late sister’s belongings, the sisters unite against their parents to stop the sale. Their meeting in New York brings out long-simmering emotions, including anger, sadness, and unsaid secrets that threaten to become an avalanche, potentially tearing apart what they have preserved for years. Can they learn to let go of the past and rebuild by healing their own brokenness?

Each sister is broken inside, and to heal, they must learn to trust and support each other. But can they achieve this crucial task?

Overall: Bring out your napkins! This book will bring out your ugly tears and is guaranteed to tear your heart open. Each connection with the characters may resonate with your own life story, vices, resentments, family problems, and redemptions. The powerful, genuine, and profound story of the Blue Sisters Saga is a must-read!

Many thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group/Ballantine Books for sharing this heartfelt fiction’s digital reviewer copy with me in exchange for my honest thoughts.

First of all, the cover is gorgeous. The girls inside the cover are gorgeous too. The book started out slow, but Coco Mellors takes her time making sure you fully know the sisters and you understand their inner workings before really digging into the root of the plot. My favorite sister is Bonnie. She's even-tempered, but says what needs to be said in it's time. Lucky and Avery are two sides of the same coin, but their age difference keeps them from becoming close until they cleave themselves so far apart they are only left with the essence of themselves to surrender to one another. A sister's love runs far deeper than any friendship or relationship ever could. Mellors has done a beautiful job bottling up the feeling of sisterhood and sharing it on the written page.

i haven’t felt this connected to characters in a long time. an absolute masterpiece of sisterhood and generational trauma and the power of grief- to rip people apart and then bring them back together.

“i don’t know who i am anymore.”

“maybe that’s because you are becoming someone new.”

may be my favorite of the year, and will be buying in hard copy immediately to annotate. impressively, a huge step up from cleopatra and frankenstein. the pov switches were seamless and brought so much more depth to the story. coco mellors is the american sister of sally rooney and i can’t wait to see everything that awaits her. i will stay.

thank you netgalley for the arc <333

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review! I really enjoyed this novel. Coco Mellors is quickly establishing herself as a strong literary voice. This novel is compelling and emotional, as it follows three sisters who are reeling in the aftermath of their sister's death, and find themselves tackling issues in their personal lives head-on. Each sister has their own struggles, but as the reader gets to know each sister, it is clear they are all not that different from one another. This becomes one of the main areas of conflict between the three as they learn this for themselves.

Beautifully written, this book is an emotional heart-tugging story of three sisters that are grieving over a sister they lost when she fatally overdosed from taking the wrong drug.

The story is character driven with each sister struggling with their own addictions. They were all trying to take away the pain that they felt when Nicole died. They were raised in a two-bedroom apartment in NYC. They all moved out as soon as they were able and went separate ways. Nicole, a wonderful teacher, had endometriosis. She was constantly wrestling with intense pain.

Avery was the eldest of the Blue sisters. She was the wise one, a caretaker who was brilliant in law school but had a problem stealing small items. Bonnie was born two years later. She was strong willed and her life revolved around boxing – the addiction of craving pain. And then Lucky (yes, that’s her given name) was a knock-out gorgeous girl. At 14 years old, she made the big bucks traveling around the world modeling. However, the money was spent recklessly on drugs and alcohol. Each sister needed a good therapist.

Some parts of the story made me laugh out loud. Other parts pushed emotional buttons as I felt the pain each sister had to overcome. It grabbed me from the beginning. The timing of how the book was presented was critical and worked well with the past mixed into the present with each sister’s life. They were all different and yet, they realized how much their relationships meant.

Some lines I had to write down as I’m one of four sisters and pieces made me pause wondering if this was a book meant just for me. I was curious how it would end and felt like it left me with a satisfied conclusion.

My thanks to Ballantine Books and NetGalley for allowing me to read an advanced copy of this book with an expected release date of September 3, 2024.

The Blue Sisters are as different as oil, water, and air. Avery, the eldest, is married to a therapist in London and thriving as a successful lawyer; Bonnie, the next, is a has-been boxing champion now working as a Bouncer for an exclusive Los Angeles bar; and Lucky, the youngest, is an unpredictable, hard-partying model in Paris who's graced every magazine cover worth gracing.

The Blue Sisters are so different, in fact, that the only thing tethering them to each other is the devastating loss of their fourth sister, Nicky, one year ago. Reeling in their own ways from Nicky's unexpected death, Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky are out to sea, barely clinging to the life raft of daily life in an ocean of grief. And all around them, the broken pieces of their sisterhood continue to shatter, leaving shrapnel in the dustiest and most unexpected corners of their private lives.

"Blue Sisters" was one of my most anticipated reads of 2024; having read and loved "Frankenstein and Cleopatra" for the gorgeous, uncomfortably-honest love story that it was, I knew "Blue Sisters" was bound to have the same rawness throughout its pages. That, readers, and so much more. This is a heavy story of loss and longing; it's riddled with topics like addiction, regret, survival, and self-sufficiency. In a way that few authors aside from Coco Mellors can do, it tells what should be an all-too-familiar story in a breathtaking new way: how do sisters go on when they lose one of their own?

While not a completely-perfect story (there were moments I felt could have been even more emotional, more compelling), "Blue Sisters" is without a doubt a must-read of the year. And while not a breezy read, it's one that pulls you in from the first, gorgeous sentence and doesn't relent.

Sisters, sisters, what would we be without our sisters?

Coco Mellors is just a fabulous writer. There is so much going on in this novel that it’s almost overwhelming, but the sisters are so well-developed as characters and it’s a pleasure to read.

Blue Sisters is the first book I have read from this author, and after reading it I definitely want to read more of her work. I loved the bond between the sisters even with their very different complex life stories. This book was hard to put down and I found myself not wanting it to end. This was by far one of my top reads for 2024.

Rating: 4.5/5

Blue Sisters follow three sisters - Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky - navigating their lives after the death of their sister, Nicky. A story of sisterhood, family, and personal complexities, their story was emotional and raw. The characters were deeply flawed and unapologetically human, which made them very relatable. Mellors takes grief, trauma, and addiction and shines light on how it weaves itself into every bit of someone's life. An excellent piece on the dynamics of family and what it means to be a sister. I'll be thinking about these characters for a while.


**Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review!**

Sisterhood that is masterfully written! Blue Sisters is stunningly raw.

A true testament to womanhood. Avery, Bonnie, Lucky and Nicky Blue must navigate through addiction, familial complexities and grief—each uniquely different yet bound by a sisterly bond. Mellors knows how to write vulnerability! She is artistful in her prose, wounding us with a sense of loss, only to mend us readers with a resilient finish. A standout novel, indeed!

Needless to say I’ll be picking up Cleopatra and Frankenstein next.

thank you to coco mellors, random house publishing, and netgalley for providing me with an advanced reader’s copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

i loved this book SO much. “blue sisters” follows three sisters as they navigate their grief a year after their sister’s death, while also grappling with invisible struggles like childhood trauma, addiction, and complex family dynamics. at the start of the book, i tried to pick which sister i related to most, but the amazing part of this book is that i heavily resonated with and saw a part of myself in each of the four blue sisters.

in this novel, coco mellors masterfully explores grief, trauma, chronic pain, addiction, and the myriad ways life can be messy. at times, it felt as if coco mellors took a peek into my innermost thoughts and captured them on paper. the characters are written so beautifully, so full of life, flaws, and emotion. coco mellors truly encapsulated what it means to be human in a world of hardships, joy, love, and loss.

“blue sisters” is everything i wanted it to be and more. it was beautifully crafted and i am sure it will stick with me for a long time. i 100% recommend picking up and reading this book come september.

I really liked this book. As a sister, I really felt the complexity of the dynamics between the four of them. Even with the sister that had passed away, you could feel her presence amongst them. The relationships were realistic and nuanced, the writing effective and compelling.

BLUE SISTERS by Coco Mellors reminded me a lot of HELLO BEAUTIFUL, both positively and negatively. Both stories center around 4 sisters and follow their ups and downs through life. Both focus on the unique bond of sisterhood and its many complications. Both were page-turners and packed with both drama and insight. Unfortunately, I also found both to feel quite heavy-handed in their treatment of characters. After reading her debut and now this one, I don't think Mellors's writing style is for me. I do think many readers will adore this one, as many readers adored HELLO BEAUTIFUL. I can see it as a celebrity book club choice or even simply a popular social book club choice; there is certainly much to discuss.

Coco Mellors has outdone herself with this one! I have been chasing the 5-star high Cleopatra & Frankenstein gave me recently, and this only topped it. Beautiful portrayal of the human condition through the experiences of 3 sisters (whose other sister passed away.) The dialogue is witty, the emotions are strong, the prose is gorgeous. Highly recommend giving this one a shot even if you haven't read her previous work!!

I am giving this book 3.5 stars rounding up to 4 stars.
Trigger warning: death of sibling, grief, alcoholism

Four sisters who are raised by parents, who provide a roof above their heads, but not necessarily unconditional love. All four sisters grow up with their individual talents but also baggage of trouble. The twist to the story is when Nicky, one of the sisters dies after a long fight due to her illness. When their parents decide to sell the house, Avery, the eldest of all sisters moves mountains to get in touch with all the rest of her sisters who are meanwhile scattered across the world.

This is my first book by Coco Mellors and I loved the premise of four sisters growing up in New York. There was much potential. The characters kept on fleeing from the reality and the grief, which Coco Mellors perfectly conveys in her story. What I was missing, is the plot twist. Something after 80% that will give me goosebumps. Something that will make gasp for air. Nothing. But it is still a compelling book considering the fact that it deals with loss of a sibling and how well the emotions are explored of the ones left behind.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.