Book Review - Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

Title: Blue Sisters
Author: Coco Mellors
Genre: Fiction/ Contemporary
Published: 2024
 
Description: 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 Avery, Bonnie and Lucky reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they fins they must return to new York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raise in.
 
But coming home is never as easy as it seems. As the sisters reckon with the disappointment of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize the greatest secrets they’ve been keeping might not have been from each other, but from themselves.
 
Review: The Blue sisters grow up in a small New York apartment in a family with an emotionally absent mother. And a father who also doesn’t quite know how to handle the responsibility that comes with having a family. This is the foundation on which four sisters must build their lives, and it does not come easily.
 
As is the case in any family, dynamics develop between them that will last a lifetime. When there is a sudden death in their family, everything is put on the edge again. The great loss is palpable with Avery, Bonnie and Lucky. As a reader you get a clear picture from the alternating perspectives of these three sisters. How each of them deal with the loss of their other sister Nicky, sister number four. All three sisters have destructive tendencies that stem from that shaky foundation.
 
This is Coco Mellor’s second book. Her debut, “Cleopatro and Frankenstein”, I read earlier this year. And I really loved it. And the same goes for “Blue Sisters”. Mellors really knows how to write a good character driven story and write strong, vivid characters as well.
 
No matter how lonely they sometimes feel withing the oppressive bonds of family, there is also an indestructible kind of love. And I really loved that about “Blue Sisters”. I didn’t love the books as much as I expected to, it didn’t hit me hard emotionally. Maybe because I don’t have sisters and a bond with a brother is different than one between sisters. But, still, “Blue Sisters” is an amazing read that I would recommend.
 
Rating: 4/ 5