Wow. This was very different to CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN but still had the same Coco Mellors readability of her debut. This is a heart breaking story about the grip addiction can have and the way it is passed down in different ways to each family member. Anybody with siblings will identify with at least one of the Blue sisters and will find both comfort and pain following their journey through grief. I read this in three sittings, and could have finished in one if I had the time. My only comment would be that I wished it lasted longer! Very moving and I hope it will encourage readers to also 'go lightly' in life.

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Coco Mellors can do no wrong, in my opinion and I already can’t wait for the re-read!!!!
Believe the hype, it’s going to be blue sisters summer!

Thank you, NetGalley and 4th Estate Books! I think this might be the first 5 stars that I've given to an ARC.

I read Coco Mellors' first novel and I liked it a lot. And boy, I was super excited to read her next novel. I wasn't sure what I expected, especially with a book that navigates the lives of four sisters. It was beautiful and sad. It deals with real family drama and sisterhood that will get you very emotional.

Mellors' words were beautiful and emotional. She has a way with them!! The book explores many complex themes about sisterhood, addiction, and romance. It also doesn't shy away from why each of the sisters has flaws of their own, and I though that was a very raw and transparent thing to write about.

I was delighted to get to read Coco Mellor’s second book Blue Sisters as I loved Cleopatra & Frankenstein so much. I would recommend this book to someone that likes a family drama with real characters that you get to love like your own. The story is set around three sisters grieving with a dysfunctional family background set in London and New York.. There is a lot of love in this story and complex character writing which CM is so attuned to. The sisters have real life problems and we work through each of them and their make up and break up with life and loves. Thank you to NetGalley for the advance copy.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to read this eARC. Blue sisters is my first Coco Mellors (there are some things about her other novel that I tend to not enjoy in plots) so I was very excited to get to read her for the first time.

I really enjoyed it. I loved the writing and the povs and the sister dynamic. What I enjoyed the most was the variety of setting. I had assumed this would be a slow read but the variety made it super interesting and compulsive read.

The explorations of grief and family dynamics were done beautifully and I really can’t wait to read more from Mellors.

This is Coco Mellors second book and once again I have been blown away.

Coco has such a beautiful way with words. I honestly felt as though I was in the book with the sisters. I felt all their pain, anguish and happiness and really didn’t want it to end.

Avery, Bonnie and Lucky lost their sister, Nicky twelve long months ago. They have been distant with other each going back to their sides of the world, running away from each other and their grief. Things come to a head and they are all back in their childhood apartment in New York. Will they find each other and them selves again?

There are some really hard hitting themes and events in this book, drink, drugs, addiction and being out of control but it was written in such a way that I couldn’t help wanting to be a Blue sister and helping them through their grief. All three sisters had their flaws but also lots of good characteristics too and I wanted them all to reach a point of being able to live with themselves again and most importantly be happy and stop with the self destruction.

As an only child, I went into this book not expecting to relate to any part of this book and just enjoy it from a casual perspective but coco mellors is such a master at drawing out emotions you didn’t think existed inside of you until you’re a mess.

Blue sisters is a story that revolves around three sisters who are estranged, but now have to come together to deal with the aftermath of losing their 4th sister. With a premise like this you’re expecting tragedy, sadness, and grief but despite all these feelings, Blue Sisters also explored the beautiful complexity of sisterhood, the glittering atmosphere of Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles. Despite the gutwrenching plot, the characters were fully developed and there was warmth, and humour and fun still weaved into the story.

What I loved about cleopatra and Frankenstein was how relatable I found it, I didn’t think blue sisters would match up to it, but it blew me away with how easy it was to read. I felt the sisterly bond, I felt their grief and how they felt about Nicky. The ending made me sob, it was weirdly nostalgic and tender all at once and made me yearn for my own self, and how much I wanted siblings when I was growing up.

All in all, this is yet another classic from coco mellors and I am forever grateful for this early opportunity to read it. A huge thank you to netgalley, the publishers and coco for my arc in exchange for an honest review.

Coco Mellors just knows how to write engaging characters. Cleo and Frank took me by surprise when I first read it and that’s what made me so keen to check out Blue Sisters. And I really enjoyed it! I flew through the first two thirds and was completely enamoured by each sister and the complexities of their family dynamic. I felt the end was maybe a touch saccharine sweet but I appreciated that Lucky’s story wasn’t tied up in a pretty bow making it feel more realistic. My only other request would be for it to be longer but that’s becuase I love long sweeping family saga books. Overall another great read from Mellors and she will be a go to author for me going forward.

I loved Cleopatra and Frankenstein so was thrilled when I saw Blue Sisters being advertised; then even more thrilled when I was granted early access to a copy! This is a seriously emotionally charged read that follows three sisters, Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky following the death of their fourth sister, Nicky. There are some REALLY heavy topics covered in this book ( grief, addiction, and mental health) however, they are dealt with sensitively.
Another really compelling and emotionally read by this talented writer! It’s simply wonderful !!!

Coco Mellors' writing continues to surprise me in the best ways possible, I was already in love with it from Cleopatra and Frankenstein, but this really solidified her as an auto-buy author for me. The way she writes about such heavy topics is gut-wrenching and beautifully on the spot every single time. Going through the grief processes of three sisters after losing their loved one and navigating the family dynamics, while all very complex subjects were handled extraordinarily well.

Thank you to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I really enjoyed reading this. The relationships between the sisters felt very real and human. My only bugbear was that the ending felt a bit too neat, but I really liked it otherwise.

Absolutely brilliant, loved it. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me an advance copy, I will definitely be recommending.

Blue Sisters is a beautifully written story that follows three sisters as they navigate their lives a year after the death of their sister. It touches on lots of complex issues such as grief, addiction, familial relationships and love. I really enjoyed this character driven book and the development of the three sisters throughout. Their complex family dynamic and the love they share is well depicted. Coco Mellors does a brilliant job at bringing these very raw and real characters to life and also is brilliant at setting the scene with her descriptions of city life.
A really enjoyable read that I definitely recommend.

Coco Mellors did it again! Though the topics of this book are heavy (grief, addiction, depression, chronic illness) and not 'fun', I really enjoyed reading "Blue Sisters" and loved getting to know these young women. In joining the Blue sisters on their very different ways to find peace after losing one of their sisters, I think a lot of people will find something of themselves.

Blue Sisters, Coco Mellors

The highly anticipated second novel from the author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein. The Blue sisters, exceptional but falling to pieces since the death of Nicky, the middle sister, has cracked a line straight through them all.

From Paris, to London to face their demons in New York the Blue Sisters navigate addiction, grief and life in this beautifully layered novel.

Complex and rich the second outing from Mellors buries itself into the darkest corners of human nature. Painful, gripping and bitter Blue Sisters is every bit as stunning as Cleopatra and Frankenstein.

Blue Sisters is a poignant tale about sisterhood and grief and covers the aftermath of the unexpected death that brings three estranged sisters again. This is my first book by Coco Mellors and it won't be my last. As someone who has also recently lost two family members, this book definitely strikes a chord. Mellors does such a great job at tackling the topic of grief and addiction. How lost or out of depth one can feel after losing a loved one. Sisterhood is complex to say the least. I felt so many emotions while reading this, alternating between laughing and crying. We need more books about sisterhood!

Thank you to Netgalley and 4th Estate for my early copy!

I loved Cleopatra and Frankenstein and I knew I would love Blue Sisters too. Coco Mellors has the amazing ability of creating characters that feel so real, allowing her reader to develop a very intimate relationship with them and love them fiercely even though they are very flawed indeed. So many times have I wished I could hold my hand out and stroke them, hug them or comfort them. All the sisters, so different to each other, are strung together by the invisible thread of their childhood and dysfunctional relationship with their parents. They struggle to come to terms with the sudden loss of their sister and the alternating POVs allow us to experience how each one of them is impacted and processes that loss. I find Coco Mellors to write sad stories exquisitely and even though they are not easy to read, I've been left both times really thinking of the characters and the story. I genuinely loved this book.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for my advance copy in exchange for an honest review, all opinions are my own.

blue sisters is a lot of things: 3 sisters grieving over the death of a sister, addiction in its many forms, complex female family dynamics (with daughters prone to perpetuating the cycles of mothers if not careful), and more. i loved getting to know avery, bonnie, lucky, and nicky as individual people as a result, but also as a family unit. because death is often the branching event that makes humans consider the before and the after in order to move forward there is so much growth to be had. i particularly loved the discussions about faith and how believing in something, whether that is a god or something else, makes the world feel less big. in mellors build up towards the sisters' acceptance of their grief, however faith manifests, the deceased can still serve a complimentary role in the lives of those who were left behind and i think that's a sweet sentiment. honestly, this sentiment is a perfect example of what i consider to be the best quality of mellors' writing, the ability hone in on the desire of people to be honest and outright above all. i hope to say "i love you too. without the too" more because of it too.

This book follows three sisters as the navigate grief following the death of their fourth sister, Nicky. We meet them on the one year anniversary of Nicky's death; Avery is living in London with her wife, Bonnie, a former world class boxer, is a living in LA working as a bouncer, and Lucky, the youngest, is in Paris working as a model. But they all find their way back to New York, to the home they grew up in, and soon find their way back to one another.

Mellors explores grief in such an interesting way throughout this novel, Nicky despite being only a memory is a firm character and place within the lives of the sisters and in turn the reader. The delicacy in which Mellors explores addiction and breaking family cycles is beautifully done. I can't express how much I adored this book. She does not shy away from the messier parts of family life. Each character was vividly alive in my mind and their struggles and battles with mental health and addiction were some of the best I have read in fiction to date.

I finished this book too quickly and it is unfair, I wanted to stay with the Blue Sisters for at least 100 pages more, but I know the ghosts of these characters will haunt me into my next novel and further still.

Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors explores grief and loss, addiction and mental health issues, sibling relationships.