4.5/5. I was originally a fan of Cleopatra and Frankenstein, so I was really excited to read another novel by Mellors. Mellors has a very lyrical way of writing that is also present in Blue Sisters. I personally am a fan of having multiple Povs in a book, so this was right up my alley. Blue sisters is a novel revolving the dynamic of a tight knit group of sisters, and how they interact with each other and the world around them, following the loss of their 4th Sister. Mellors does such a great job of making each sister an individual. They each have their own separate conflicts both internally and externally, and at their roots, nothing is more important to them as their sisters. I found it so interesting to to see how similar and different they are from each other. Surprisingly, the one character I wasn't very interested in when reading the synopsis, Bonnie, became my favorite, and I think the novel really comes around full circle. The main themes were grief, love, family, personal growth, friendship, and most importantly sisterhood. I think each of these themes were portrayed incredibly well, and although the characters often make choices I didn't agree with, I couldn't help but root for each one of them. Overall, I think I enjoyed Blue Sisters even more than Cleopatra and Frankenstein. I would like to thank Netgalley for allowing me to read this phenomenal book!

Thank you Netgalley for an early copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I gave this book 3.5 stars (rounded up to four). It was a highly anticipated read for me, and I may have screamed when I got the galley in my inbox.
Coco does a fantastic job of writing the rawest versions of her characters. This story explores the Blue family dealing with grief of losing a sister in all different ways. Grief is hard and everyone tries to relieve the pain of it in different ways... this was a beautiful portrayal of real struggles that humans can so easily slip in to. Even though the Blue sisters were flawed, I was rooting for them along the way and liked seeing life from all three of their perspectives. I'm excited for more people to get their hands on this story!

‘Blue Sisters’ follows the lives of three sisters, Bonnie, Avery and Lucky, after their fourth sister Nicky dies. It chronicles their life after her death and their respective struggles and grief. If you want to read about love, loss, family and addiction, this story might be up your alley. I thought it was brilliantly done. The writing pulls you into the center of the story and into these characters lives. I felt like I could see the characters in front of me, they really came alive. Gorgeous prose and equally heartbreaking and full of hope. It was a pleasure to read!

As soon as I read that Coco Mellors had a new book, I immediately got excited and wrote it down on my tbr as soon as it got out.
I loved the writing style, the settings, the plot, the characters…
As soon as I finished the book I wanted to read it again and also re-read cleo and frank.
I really liked this one!

Blue Sisters is fantastic, amazing, will be one of the hottest books this fall. Seriously, all the hot girls I know are reading the ARC. I related a little to all of the sisters, but as the eldest Avery holds a special place in my heart. I love Coco's writing, and I'm so happy to report that this one is my favorite!!

From the moment I first started reading Blue Sisters, I could not think about anything else. Coco Mellors is a new writer to me; I have always wanted to read Cleopatra and Frankenstein but never got around to it. It is definitely at the top of my TBR after Blue Sisters. From the prologue, I was hooked. I highlighted so much of this book, cried, laughed, and found myself fully immersed in the world of the Blue Sisters. I am a sister but I do not have sisters. I have always heard about the dynamic of sisters and how different it was in comparison to having brothers. As the eldest daughter, I found myself relating to Avery for most of the book, but also Lucky as well.
Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky try to find their footing after experiencing the death of their sister Nicky, each living in different parts of the world and isolating themselves. Each sister blaming themself for Nicky’s death. Ultimately, they are brought back home to NYC and discover their path and start their process for healing.
One reviewer on here states “everything was believable,” which I couldn’t agree more. Coco writes in such a manner that leaves me desiring nothing more. I was so satisfied with the ending, with their development, and no stone was left unturned by the end of the book.
I can’t wait to see more of Coco’s work, and I can’t wait to receive my physical copy of Blue Sisters. This is definitely a story I will reread once again and one I will recommend to anyone interested in listening to me talk about this emotional, heart wrenching, beautiful story about love, girlhood, grieving, and sisters. Thank you so much to NetGalley for providing this eARC and giving me the opportunity to enjoy Blue Sisters.

This is my first Coco Mellors book and I'm so happy that I was given the chance to read this beautiful story. Blue Sisters, clear by the title, is all about sisterhood. This is a character driven book that takes you on a journey of grief, addiction, mental struggles and more after 3 sisters return to their NYC home after the 4th sister passes away. This book has something for everyone and I feel like it's relatable on different levels. Be prepared for a book that can be messy, overwhelming, emotional, hurtful, dramatic, and empathetic. I think the imperfectness and cliches actually work well in this book and not in a cringe way, it felt real.

Coco Mellors' writing was absolutely beautiful and I appreciate the character driven focus in this book. It was hard not to get tangled up in the lives of each individual sister and then them as a unit. I would recommend this book to anyone, even those who are typically into more plot driven books.

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I LOVE YOU COCO MELLORS!!!! Cleopatra and Frankenstein was one of my favorite books last year bc of how tender and human and lovely and sad it was and this book is going to be one of my favorites this year for the same reasons. coco mellors is so so good at beautifully writing thoughts and feelings you thought were intangible and abstract. i loved the characters and how human and imperfect they were, it makes my heart ache with happiness and tenderness. amazing book!!!


thank u netgalley for this ARC ❤️

Thank you so much for this arc:)

I mean wooooow….. This was my first Coco Mellors book and I’m astonished. The writing is beautiful and gut wrenching. I love books with complex characters—story lines.

Grief is always changing and each person handles it differently. It also a complicity of family relationships and unconditional love.

Mellors' characters come to life from the very first page, as she writes about one of the most complex institutions in the world - sisterhood.

Coco Mellors is a new author for me and I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. I will definitely be picking up her backlist. If you like messy family stories of sisters who are imperfect but very real you’ll like this. It’s not exactly an easy read as they make incredibly bad decisions over and over but the characters are ultimately people I could relate to and the sisterhood came through. Despite some heavy subject matters the author’s no nonsense style of writing kept the story moving. Lots of families deal with issues of addiction, chronic pain, trauma and life keeps ticking on. I ended up really rooting for the three remaining sisters as they dealt with the death of the fourth in different ways. Each sister is a very well developed character so we understand how and why they react to each other. I love the location changes from London, Paris, NYC to LA. There’s enough humor and humanity to make this a bittersweet yet ultimately hopeful novel that would be a great book club pick. I want people to read it so we can talk about addiction, families, pain, endometriosis and lots more. Thanks for the ARC.

Blue Sisters, tells the story of three estranged sisters trying to navigate their complex relationships and personal lives amid their sister's death. Being made clear by the title, the core of the book is just about the bond the sisters share. While reading this book, I thought of a tweet "you won't let your sister borrow your clothes but you'd give them a kidney in a heartbeat." this perfectly sums up sisterhood as a whole.

Though it was heavy in the subject matter, Blue Sisters made for a fun read. It switches between Paris, London, New York, L.A, plunging you in new locations as each sister tries to find a sense of home again after the death of their sister. Our author Coco Mellors doesn't shy away from discussing the difficult aspects of life, exploring grief and how it manifests differently in each person. Especially through the different coping mechanisms of each sister. The novel largely focuses on addiction, and the determination to break the cycle of addiction within a family.

Blue Sisters has a lot of heart and emotional tenderness and will relate to those who have a lot of heart and emotional tenderness. I think it will relate to anyone who has a sister or sister. It is about letting go, moving on, and learning to live again.

Thank you 4th Estate Books for the arc copy.

Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors struck me in the feelings from the opening and never let go. What a beautiful, honest, and real story about sisters, addiction, trauma, healing, and loss. I was constantly struck by the sentence level writing - it was so poetic and well written. I highlighted so many lines. The character development left nearly nothing to be desired and the author somehow simply and through a short period of time created so much change for these characters within themselves and with each other. Everything was believable, which I think was the greatest accomplishment.

I would read at least 1000 more pages of these sisters! Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Ballantine for the ARC. 5 glowing stars from me. Blue Sisters is out 9/3/2024 and I can’t wait to shout about this one from the rooftops until then.

I was hooked from the prologue. Mellors' stark, matter-of-fact writing style made me feel these characters in their entirety. Reading this was sad and uncomfortable because it exposes the reality behind the bold facades each of the sisters tries to present; Avery with her perfect proper life, Bonnie as the “tough girl,” and Lucky as the carefree , beautiful supermodel. But it doesn’t take much to see right through these fronts and Mellors exposes them so tragically, but with profound beauty. I was invested through each and every growing pain and was left wanting more from the Blue sisters.

Thank you to NetGalley for the eARC, I feel so privileged to have had the opportunity to read this book!

I was so excited to read Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors and I was so grateful to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read an advanced copy. This book was so good. I really love Mellors writing and I think she did a fantastic job of showing relationships between sisters and sisterly love. It's not all good but it's always there. I couldn't get enough of this. It was beautifully written. It's bittersweet and stunning. I will 100% be recommending this book to everyone.

Wow! A truly powerful story that’s bittersweet till the very end. The sisters are all super fleshed out complicated characters who feel like they could be real people. Even Nicky, a character who is absent for the books entirety, is given such depth. Being the oldest sister of 5 girls, I would say this presents a realistic portrayal of family love and grievances. I do wish we had spent more time with the sisters altogether in the apartment, rather than the very long build up of their individual lives in the first half. The explosive and gut wrenching second half of the book totally makes up for any issues I had. Overall, great story I would recommend to anyone.

This was one of my most anticipated books of the year and it didn't disappoint!

This poignant family saga follows the remaining Blue sisters after the death of their sibling, Nicky. The Blue sisters: Avery, Lucky, and Bonnie, are messy, complex, and beautifully-crafted. Avery, the eldest, is an uptight, former addict who finds bad habits elsewhere. I adored her wife, Chiti, and though I was a little hesitant about what occurs between them, I found Avery a profound and intriguing character. Her sister, Lucky, is a party girl and a model, who is young and abused by the industry, an addict herself. Then there's Bonnie, a quiet boxer who is in love with her trainer. I would have liked to see more of Bonnie. She felt a bit forgotten in the shadow of the other two, though, she was still a very likable and empathetic character.

I loved following each sister through their story and watching how they handled not only their grief, but sisterhood and the generational trauma of addiction. I was brought to tears in the final scenes and already plan to re-read soon. Mellor's prose is thoughtful and haunting-- this is a book that sticks with you.

5/5 stars! I highly recommend this stunning novel!

This was a quick read. I really blew through it. As my first coco mellor book, I’m interested to see how I’ll rate cleopatra and frankenstein. I don’t love her writing. It’s very dialogue heavy and the dialogue itself can be cringe at times. The characters felt real but it’s an unrelenting stream of bad decisions.

I also largely got the ick from *SPOILERS AHEAD* Bonnie’s relationship with her coach. I don’t love age gaps but the fact that she’s known him since she was a teenager and he was her coach?? Nah I can’t do that.

Four sisters are now three after Nicky, their strong and steady sister, dies- the least likely among these siblings who all engage in risky behaviors throughout this story. Nicky has endometriosis that has amplified over the years, causing debilitating pain in her body. The only solution that many gaslighting practitioners have offered her is a hysterectomy, which would destroy her dreams of becoming a mother. But as her pain escalates and she struggles to find pain medication, she becomes involved in a transaction that takes her life.

To Mellor's credit, these scenes are written with great compassion and empathy, primarily as the sisters reflect on their role in all of this, whether sitting with her at the ER or the signs that she was not receiving compassionate care. The book walks a razor-thin line as it draws parallels to their father's addiction, which I found tricky, as dependence on medications for quality of life feels very different than pounding a bottle of vodka by the TV at night, for example.

The surviving sisters are primarily insufferable. Lucky is a model who regularly snorts lines and blackout drinks. Avery navigates her sobriety but engages in other horrible thrills-seeking behaviors. Bonnie is the most grounded of the characters, but she navigates risks as a professional boxer, discovering mounting feelings for someone in her professional world. Now, these sisters are all pulled together to sort out their sisters' belongings and seek answers to the loss that shapes them. I shed lots of tears through this book and was most drawn to the story when it had those tiny shimmers of Little Women moments with sisters that feel like a mismatched tea set that all fit perfectly together.

But, I hope this sparks thoughtful conversations about chronic pain and the importance of compassionate care. I am worried that the mess of the sisters overshadowed that message and offered parallels I'm not sure I'm prepared to leap into as someone with chronic pain.

When a novel reads as if it could be a memoir. Four sisters, now three, are trying to navigate life as a trio. Their grief is palpable.

You can’t go home again and in the case of Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky, it is painfully true, especially since losing their sister Nicky. It’s as if the glue that held them together dried up and their once tight bond is slowly unraveling. Having weathered the childhood storm of inept parents, their closeness was greater than most, their storms more electric, they had Avery to parent them, but Nicky’s death has shattered them in unexpected ways. Now that they’re spread out around the world rather than at their once home base in a small apartment that kept them close both physically and emotionally, they’re untethered. The depth of these characters is what will grab you, make you understand how hard they’re floundering, with love, addiction, finding their way.

“I love you too. Without the too.”

Thank you to NetGalley, Random House/Ballantine Books for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.