Thank you Netgalley for the arc of Blue Sisters. This was such an emotional ride, it made me cry and laugh, and feel all the emotions. I would highly recommend reading this book. It's a story about sisters. It was beautifully written and this is my second book by this author. The first book I read by her was Cleopatra and Frankenstein. I really enjoyed that one, so I wanted to read Blue Sisters.

Count me in as another huge fan of this wonderful and emotional family drama about four sisters. I'm so gald I read it with my book club because there was so much I wanted to discuss. 4.5 stars

Thanks to Ballantine for the copy to review.

This was my first book by Coco Mellors and I loved the way she was able to bring this family to life within the pages of Blue Sisters. The book takes you through each of the sister’s lives following a family tragedy that has left them all heartbroken and trying to cope and move on in their own ways.

I loved the diversity and rawness in each of the sister’s stories. You could feel the emotions, tension and pain they were all going through in their own lives. I really enjoyed getting to learn about each of the sisters individual and very separate lives. Mellor did a great job and was able to pull them all together and still make it feel like a fluid story that felt natural and realistic. There were a few sisters stories that I felt like didn’t get the full justice their story deserved and parts felt half baked or rushed. However, in the end it all worked out and I still enjoyed the story!

Thank you Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley!

This book was so beautiful. It follows the lives of three sisters who are returning home to New York to grieve and bury their fourth sister. The author does well exploring the topic of grief and complex family relationships. The sisters are also trying to stop their mother from selling the family apartment, where their deceased sister lived and where they hold so many memories. Coming home proves to be difficult for all of them, as they are face to face with childhood hurts and disappointments. Personally, I would say this book is all about how family can break your heart and then help you put it back together again. I enjoyed this book and will recommend it to others.

I was immediately captivated by this story of four sisters. I loved the way the sisters were introduced, so that the reader can easily get a handle on their personalities and each sister's role in the family. I only have one sister, so I was fascinated by the multitude of sisterly dynamics in a family with four sisters, not to mention the parents. It's a lot! Honestly each of the sisters' individual stories could have probably been a novel of its own. But the magic of the novel (and the talent of Coco Millers as a storyteller) emerges in the way their motivations, flaws, strengths, and the overall family dynamic interact and dovetail together into a compelling plot.

Thank you to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for the complimentary eARC in exchange for my honest feedback.

After DNFing this author's first book I went into this with super low expectations of how much I would enjoy it and I was actually pleasantly surprised! While I didn't absolutely love this like everyone seems to, I did have a good time following these sisters and their lives. All the things I disliked about Coco Mellors' debut were not present in this book, which was a huge relief for me. This story is set up exactly the way I like my fiction/contempory/litery fiction books... a slice of life with some backstory, following characters that are seemingly morally gray, and learning more about them through their actions and the way they react to situations they face throughout the story. While I wasn't absoluetly blown away by this book, it was still an easy (enough) read despite all the trauma and hardships the main characters experience. I'm not close to my sisters so I would never fully understand the lengths these women would go through for each other, but it was heartwarming to see how much they loved and cared about one another. Despite this, I never felt super connected to the characters, which really lowered my rating, and I never really understood their motives and why they did and said the things that they did. I might give this author another chance in the future, depending on what she writes next, but I didn't have an awful time!

Sometimes we need to travel far and wide before we understand the meaning of home. Four sisters grow up in New York City and go their different ways but circumstance and the strength of their enduring bond pulls them back into each other’s orbit.
Each sister has her own part to play in the family and while some of it is tied to birth order, it is mostly the their personalities which allow each sister to remain distinct and sometimes in conflict with the others.
Coco Mellors does a fabulous job developing all four characters and while each reader may have their favorite each sister is equally well developed and three dimensional.
It is difficult to write a review without spoilers, but this story of addiction and generational trauma is deeply and sensitively told.

Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors is a fabulous book about the power of sisterhood. It's thematically aligned to Little Women, but it has it's own unique writing and style. It's one of my favorite books of the year.

Many thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for sharing this book with me.

a tender story that gnaws at your heart quietly.. the story is a great exemplification of what resilience in the face of generational trauma looks like. each of the Blue sister has her own unique story and struggles but I found that I especially have a soft spot for Avery, the parentified eldest daughter who checks in on everyone but herself.

regardless, this is a story about survival and making amends in the aftermath of impossible grief and one that struck a chord in my heart.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Coco Mellors has delivered an extraordinary exploration of grief, sisterhood, and the complex layers of human relationships in Blue Sisters. This novel is a masterclass in character-driven storytelling, offering readers an intimate look at the raw and often messy emotions that bind us together and tear us apart.

What I Loved:
Deeply Drawn Characters: The three surviving Blue sisters—Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky—are portrayed with such authenticity that they feel like real people. Each sister's struggles, from Avery’s fight for control in sobriety to Bonnie’s simmering anger after her boxing career ended, and Lucky’s attempt to outrun her past, are deeply relatable.
Complex Family Dynamics: Mellors captures the tension, love, and unspoken truths that define sibling relationships. The sisters' shared grief over Nicky’s death becomes a lens through which their own fears and failures are illuminated.
Setting as a Character: The New York family apartment is more than a backdrop; it’s a repository of memories, secrets, and unresolved tensions that mirrors the emotional weight carried by the sisters.
Themes of Resilience: At its heart, Blue Sisters is a story of healing and rediscovery. It beautifully examines how people navigate pain and loss while finding strength in unexpected places.
Balanced Tone: Mellors masterfully blends moments of levity and heartbreak. The humor never feels forced, and the emotional beats are never heavy-handed.

What Stood Out:
The poignant exploration of addiction, ambition, and identity makes this story resonate on a universal level.
The sisters’ voices are distinct and compelling, making it easy to empathize with each of them.
The pacing is perfect, allowing the story to unfold naturally while keeping the reader utterly engaged.

Why It’s a Must-Read:
Blue Sisters is not just a novel about grief; it’s about the bonds that survive even the deepest wounds and the ways we find our way back to ourselves. Coco Mellors has crafted a narrative that is both heartrending and uplifting, a celebration of life’s fragility and resilience.

This book deserves every bit of its recognition as a Read with Jenna Pick and beyond. A triumph in contemporary fiction that will stay with you long after you’ve turned the last page.

I absolutely love Coco Mellors writing.

She did it with Cleopatra and Frankenstein and she does it with this book as well.

This book is fantastic and just an over all great read!

Thanks NEtGalley for letting me read and review.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the advanced copy!

Coco Mellors does it again. There way she creates and develops characters is unmatched. Solid 4 stars.

Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky Blue are sisters fighting their way through the grief of the death of their sister Nicky, who died exactly one year ago on the fourth of July. Fighting sounds extreme, you say? Well each of them is lost in a different way, and they all have inner demons they are battling. To me their current existence is full of emotionally charged habits, choices, and consequences. I have two sisters, and imagining losing one of them is very painful, so I can easily put myself in any of the Blue sisters shoes and understand their pain. I wanted to reach into the book and grab hold of them and tell them to be nice to themselves and to each other, but I also know these are things they have to learn for themselves. The sisters are highly, realistically flawed, and I really appreciated their depth, fragility, raw emotions, and ultimately their strength (even if they didn't realize they had it). Reading their story and resulting growth journeys was painful at times, and emotionally bruising as well.

Thank you NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine for my copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.

A sister is not a friend...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. You don't choose each other, and there's no furtive period of getting to know each other. You're part of each other, right from the start.

Blue Sisters was a genuinely captivating read. It follows the Blue sisters—Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky—as they navigate grief, addiction, and relationships after the death of their sister, Nicky. Each sister is left broken and grieving after her death, but copes with the pain in isolated and self-destructive ways. At first, the sisters seem as different as can be—Avery is a lawyer in London, Bonnie a boxer in L.A., and Lucky a model in France—but as the story unfolds, it's easier to see their similarities than their differences. When they finally travel home to visit their childhood home on the market to be sold, they find that true healing can only happen together.

Many readers loved this book, but the plain-spoken prose and the heavy content were not for me at the moment. Don't let that dissuade you from picking it up, if the synopsis is intriguing. It was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award, which isn't nothing! I would recommend this book to readers who enjoyed Hello Beautiful, Shanghailanders, or even Tom Lake.

The Blue Sisters follows three sisters in the wake of their fourth sisters (Nicky) tragic and unexpected passing. The eldest, Avery is a successful lawyer and recovering heroin addict living in England with her wife. Bonnie is a former boxer wondering what to do next with her life after a terrible loss. The youngest, Lucky, is a model but can't keep up with her hard partying life. As they pass a year from Nicky's passing, they all must come together and decide what to do with her stuff and the apartment that they grew up in.

I love a family drama story and this fit the bill. I feel like Mellors made the sisters real without making them annoying. Spoiler alert: but I loved that it ended on a high note after all the heartache.

coco mellors, what a beautiful introduction to who you are and your writing. honestly? i had kind of low expectations for this book, like i thought i wouldn't be engaged nor would this book mean much to me besides a story. but boy was i wrong. i was so truly and fully captivated by this novel from the very start. it was constantly moving, even when the characters reflected back on their past and memories. the characters? i did not relate to any of them personally, but i could understand their struggles. i loved reading about their sister relationships with each other. i've always wanted a sister and this book made me feel a part of a sisterhood. not even exaggerating, i cried, or at least teared up, every single chapter. the writing was absolutely beautiful. i loved getting to know each of the blue sisters, and i'll miss them.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of "Blue Sisters" by Coco Mellors. This book follows the lives of three close-knit but very different sisters as they navigate the horrific loss of their fourth "Blue" sister. I appreciated the narrative and growth as we followed how each of the women suffer the loss and deal with childhood trauma, including alcoholism and addiction. I never had a sister but I have 3 daughters of my own and appreciate how the bonds of family and sisterhood are portrayed. It was well-written and a great read.

I finally read Blue Sisters, and unfortunately although I did not dislike this book, I did not seem to love it as much as everyone else did this fall. I read this as a buddy read with a friend and really enjoyed chatting with her about it - I think this makes a good book club book or buddy read. I had complicated feelings about this one but felt that the reading experience was still rich through reading it in community.

read this book if you love—
🏠 complicated family stories
👯 about sibling dynamics + sisterhood
3️⃣ Multiple POV
💨 quick reads
🚫 unlikable and messy characters

I had a tougher time with this one than anticipated and it fell a little flat for me. Mellors is a very talented writer but the narrative didn’t really come together and I found all the sisters’ motivations difficult to understand.

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an early copy in exchange for an honest review.

Review: What a banger of a book, an anthem, a speech. Coco Mellors has quickly become an auto-buy author between Blue Sisters and Cleopatra and Frankenstein. She is able to describe and portray such vulnerable parts and motivations of the human condition. Plot wise this is a very slow moving story. You read books like this for the character. I feel like trying to write a review of a book this grand is impossible. It's one you have to experience.

If you are an addict or have a family member who is an addict, I believe you will feel deeply heard and felt. This story does not go down easily, it can be hard to digest. It raw and heartbreaking from start to finish. CoCo Mellors writes this story in a way that we embody each sister and get the opportunity to understand them. All four sisters are very different and have very distinct lives.

I keep going in circles trying to find the words but I can't. CoCo Mellors told this story beyond the capacity of review. I urge you to read it, to witness it's words.