SUPERB based on 6 reviews
Bloggers’ reviews summary
Coco Mellors’s Blue Sisters captivates readers’ hearts and minds with a heartbreaking yet joyous study of sisterhood dynamics and family relationships.
| Superb | 5 |
| Good | – |
| Mixed | 1 |
| Unfavourable | – |
Book description from the publishers, Penguin Random House and Ballantine Books
The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left the family reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in.
But coming home is never as easy as it seems. As the sisters reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize that the greatest secrets they’ve been keeping might not have been from one another but from themselves.
Imbued with Coco Mellors’s signature combination of humor and heart, Blue Sisters is a story of what it takes to keep living after loss—and, ultimately, to fall in love with life again.
Publication date: 3 September 2024 (Penguin Random House)
#BookTok review of Coco Mellors’s Blue Sisters
 SUPERB | “If you have siblings you’ll love this book.” @velsjournal (Vellicia Marlie) |
Independent bloggers’ reviews of Coco Mellors’s Blue Sisters
SUPERB | “Blue Sisters is a touching story of sisterhood, grief and individualism. Coco Mellors does a stunning job articulating the ups-and-downs of a family dynamic, as well as showing all human beings just want to be seen, heard and loved.” Bookworm Girl |
SUPERB | “There’s nothing fancy about the premise here, and it’s quite a modern take on LITTLE WOMEN. Three Blue sisters, Avery, Bonnie and Lucky, return to their childhood home one last time a year after the death of the third sibling, Nicky. While they haven’t really been shining beacons of humanity for their lives, they seem to be slipping further and faster since her demise, and this whole book pretty much is their coming to terms with it and creating a balance in being just three. “This book is raw and extremely thought out. Not much happens, there’s not real plot, and it is completely character-driven, and that already sets it up for success in my book. Coco does not hold back from showing us sisterhood in all its messy but unbeatable glory.” Reader@Work |
SUPERB | “Blue Sisters is such a real story about the bonds of family and the catastrophic way that addiction can run through its members. The overall effect of the story was profound, and I was deeply moved by it. A firm favourite for the year and an excellent one for book clubs.” Theresa Smith Writes |
 MIXED | “The main theme is grief and in this respect, I’m not sure that Mellors offers anything new. Granted, I’m a tough customer. Bonnie and Lucky’s coping behaviours are amplified (which is expected) – Bonnie struggles to contain her rage, and Lucky wipes herself out at parties. Avery, who has been sober for more than a decade, is the most interesting… “The relationship between the sisters was interesting, although again, I don’t think offered any fresh perspective. I don’t have a sister but I recognise that there are dynamics particular to sister relationships.” Books Are My Favourite And Best |
SUPERB | “I found the sisters bonds and issues with one another very believable and well-written, and I was rooting for them all to figure out the various messes they had made of their lives after Nicky was found dead. The way they were raised came up throughout the story, both as an explanation for how they may have ended up where they each were in life, but also as a trauma that was yet to be truly reckoned with. “Blue Sisters is told from the points of view of all three of the remaining Blue girls, and this added to the depth at which the reader is able to get to know each character, and ultimately care about what happens to each in the end. This was a deeply satisfying read, and I look forward to what Coco Mellors writes next.” Postcards from the Northern Edge |
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