3.5! A heartbreaking novel about sisters and grief and how that relationship evolves and changes over time.

If you're looking for a good ugly cry, look no further because you found it with The Blue Sisters. Oh my god. I can't even begin to scratch the surface here. It was beautifully written and emotionally captivating. I am definitely going to seek out more of Coco Mellors!

Blue Sisters is story of sisters, marriage, desire, and more importantly to me, the relationship between a mother and daughters. Each women in the Blue family dealt with her own burden. Some more vocal than others. While I very much enjoyed each sister’s story, I don’t think I need individual POVs. Besides Avery, I didn’t feel enough for Bonnie or Lucky for such long chapters. The much needed discussion between Avery and Mrs Blue was beautifully written and a honest discussion between mother daughter. Unfortunately the epilogue felt unnecessary. All and all, a nice book

I am between 4 and 5 stars on this beautiful and unforgettable book. I loved the compassionate yet unflinching depiction of both addiction and grief. It was spot on. These sisters were all so tangible, and I rooted for each one of them. I also loved the 4th act introduction of their mother. I will think about this one for a long, long time. We would so love to host the author at our store!

Wow. This is my first time reading a book by Coco Mellers and I’ll absolutely be picking up her pprevious one. I loved her writing style and the overall plot. Sisterhood, sobriety, and family drama make for a compelling story.

This character-driven novel of three adrift sisters is catching from the beginning. Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky are all hiding from their truths, which are bound to come out when they return to their family apartment for the first time since the death of their sister, Nicky. The sisters love one another fiercely, but also fight like only sisters can. With absent parents, they were forced to grow up quickly and are still reckoning with their childhood concerns as adults. Overall, I adored this book and am looking forward to more from the author. I loved learning about each sister and found myself both rooting for them and frustrated by their choices at times. A complicated but excellent novel!

I really enjoyed this and immediately added Cleopatra and Frankenstein to my TBR. I don't have sisters, but I thought this was a beautiful portrayal of sisterhood; their love for each other, their fighting and frustration. It's also a story about addiction and loving someone with addiction. I highly recommend it and can't wait to read more by Coco Mellors. Thank you NetGalley and Random House Publishing for the ARC.

Three estranged sisters return to their family home in New York City to sort through their deceased sisters belongings. This is a story of grief, sibling identity and family relationships. They all have their demons and addictions they are working through. Throw in the disappointments of childhood and a lot of secrets and you have a saga that covers years. This is a sad but insightful family history. Thanks to @NetGalley for the ARC of this book.

The character study is amazing. I love these characters. And sometimes want to yell at them. Love the complex emotions presented. And how everyone deals with grief differently.

Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors is a poignant exploration of family, loss, and the complexities of sisterhood, beautifully balancing humor and heart. The story follows the three Blue sisters—Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky—as they each navigate their unique struggles with addiction, ambition, and grief following the death of their fourth sister, Nicky. Returning to New York to confront their past and save their childhood home, the sisters face not only the painful memories of their upbringing but also the secrets they've kept from themselves. Readers will appreciate Mellors’s vivid characterizations and the authentic portrayal of the messy, often chaotic process of healing and rediscovery. This novel resonates with anyone who has experienced loss or grapples with family dynamics, making it a heartfelt read about resilience and the journey to embrace life again.

Pass the tissues, please.
I haven't sobbed that violently in such a long time. This whole book felt so real, and raw. Please read it , but use caution. Check the TW.
Thank you so much for the ARC. I've already purchased a physical copy 💙

Very sad about not enjoying this book. I had high expectations but I had several issues with this story. Overall, I won't be reading more from this author because I fondly alight with her ideas and the way she represents her characters but just because it didn't worked for me, doesn't mean that it couldn't work for someone else.

There used to be four Blue sisters namely, Avery, Bonnie, Nicky, and Lucky. In this book, Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky find their way back into each other's lives when their sister Nicky died. It's a story of grief, addiction, identity, and most of all, sisterhood.

Avery is the eldest of the Blue sisters. Now she lives in London with her wife and works as a lawyer. In LA, Bonnie, a former boxer, now works as a bouncer for a club. And Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to navigate her mid-twenties. I loved that these sisters TRULY feel like sisters. Mellors wrote their history so well and so beautifully. They all come with their own baggage. They all feel real and are flawed. I like that, even though the book has 3 alternating POVs, as a reader I ended up rooting for all 3 of them instead of just leaning towards 1 sister.

Blue Sisters tackles the hard stuff, like the fact that sometimes, coming home is not easy. Where is home anyway, when you've been far from it for too long? This book shows you how life can be so short, and how often we take our lives for granted; too busy with things that maybe don't even matter in the end.

There's a quote in the book that hit me straight in the heart; it says grief never leaves. When a person passed away, all you are left is the 'missing'. You keep missing, and missing, and missing. Until you learn how to live with it. I think the author did an amazing job of showing how important it is to love people not only in the beginning and end, but especially in the in-betweens. To quote Mellors, "As long as you are alive, it is never too late to be found".

coco mellors can definitely give readers memorable lines and feelings through her books and with this release she achieved that again. there were moments where i had to stop and reread a few passages, have a little sigh and then keep reading. the connection between these sisters is something special and complicated. i'm a sucker for siblings in literature, so this was up my alley!

I wanted to like this way more than I did. I found the sisters to be very one dimensional as characters and their occupations and lives were so fantastical that it was extremely difficult to relate to them in anyway. I thought the writing was exceptional and I definitely want to read more from this author.

I will admit that at first I thought oh no. Here comes another book with all the praise that I’m not going to like. It seemed like a slow start but I quickly changed my tune.

By the end I felt bonded to the Blue Sisters and I soon came to realize why this rough around the edges narrator was chosen for the role. Avery, Bonnie, Lucky and Nicky are four sisters raised in NY by an alcoholic father and a mother in denial. When they lose their sister Nicky, the sisters struggle with their grief in different ways. This is a story about sisterhood, family and grief. The characters were so well developed they felt like real people to me. I found this book asking the question of nature vs nurture regarding addiction. There’s known to be a genetic predisposition but how do you break out of that cycle. Thank you to coco Mellors for this five star ⭐️ ready . I’ll need to check out her other books.

Would love this one to be a movie 🎥 🍿 !!

Pick this up for a sweeping story of sisters and their struggles.

Blue Sisters 5/5 ⭐️

Thank you, NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC of this book!

This book follows the titular Blue sisters, Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky, in the aftermath of their fourth sister, Nicky’s death. Naturally, each sister is left reeling and more disconnected from each other than ever. However, the sisters must return to the apartment they were raised in to stop it from being sold.

Coco Mellors perfectly captures moments and feelings in her writing. As someone who has 3 sisters, this book struck me to my core. It was breathtaking and heartbreaking. I truly could not recommend this book more.

📕”"Listen to me," she said. "I want you to really listen." She put her mouth next to Avery's ear to speak in a fierce whisper. "You are not that important."” It’s hard to hear from a mother, but within the given context there couldn’t be anything else this mother could have said to shake up her child and bring her back to life
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📗Thank you Coco Mellors making me feel like sh*t for being an only child. Yes I would have loved to be the oldest or youngest child, but blame it on my parents. Well I’m going to be that with my chosen sisters. I would be their Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky all at once and what Nicky would have been
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📘”They weren't tasteful like the French or puritanical like the Americans; if you suggested going for a drink in London, odds were you were going to get drunk. The desire for inebriation was tacit, no one needed to make a thing of it. Brits wanted oblivion and they wanted it now.” I loved this and I loved how true this was! Gimme some Brit level blackout 😂

This is the first book I have read from this author and I definitely enjoyed it. It is a year after three sisters have lost their other sister. They are all spiraling and have made a mess of so many different facets of their lives. They are dealing with individual losses and have come together to purge their childhood home together. I struggled a bit at times because I felt that I was being told what the characters were like as opposed to actually experiencing this insight in the dialogue. This is a pet peeve of mine when it comes to characters. I also felt the descriptions were often heavy handed and felt like overkill as well. I really enjoyed this book otherwise and liked the author's unique style and voice for the most part. Thanks for the ARC, NetGalley. I would like to read more from this author.

I love books about sisters, and I was looking forward to reading something with that as a focal plot point. I enjoyed the tender and gritty way in which the book showcases a moment in time where the characters come to terms with the unique grief of losing a sibling.

However, although the writing is beautiful, the characters and their relationships often felt flat, and didn't feel alive to me. Partly because the book spends more time telling us about the characters and their relationships than actually showing them to us (for instance, saying that two siblings had strained relations as opposed to showing that strain). We only really get to see the siblings properly interacting in the last quadrant of the book, and that's when you start to get at the messiness and volatility unique to sibling relationships. For me, that last quadrant of the book was written remarkably better, and I wish the entire book embodied that essence more.

What I thought would be a fresh take with real characters felt overdone and predictable. Gorgeous women from Manhattan living uniquely exceptional lives, and their entire personalities centre on their dysfunctionality, self destruction, and addiction. I'm all for honest portrayals of addiction and substance abuse, but it bothers me to see it almost like a proxy for "complex" and "authentic" characters. It's been done, I want to see authors do better. I was really hopeful to see some discussion of a chronic illness but that too felt brief, with only a couple sentences in Bonnie's chapter that really even tried to get at what that experience is actually like, beyond just "unbearable pain leads to overdose". I truly wish there was more discussion of living with chronic illness beyond just using substance abuse as a cop out.

I really hope there was more from this book. I wish Coco mellors would show more than tell, and actually try to push the boundaries of what makes characters real and human. This felt like an attempt to get at something but didn't quite make it there.

Thank you NetGalley and publishers for the ARC