Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

As irmãs Blue + brindes by Coco Mellors

84 reviews

m_liz's review against another edition

emotional hopeful

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Oh this book. Besides just being beautifully written, the characters in this story are so specific, yet they embody such universal struggles, feelings, and hopes. A beautiful story about the ineffable bond of sisters, breaking the cycle of familial trauma, and being your true self with the support of those who love you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content and Vomit

kmartucci's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abandonment, and Alcohol

daniellelardi's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

the year isn’t over but i think this is going to be a tough one to beat. this genuinely might be my favorite book ive read this year and i do not say that lightly. 

i wish i could just copy and paste this book into this comment section because every single line of this book was genuine perfection. the last chapter of averys monologue to chiti talking about missing nicky like i’ll cry and think about that everyday for the rest of me life probably. bonnie’s one liners. luckys graphic depictions of feeling too much at all times.

god and when avery went to visit her mom and was talking about how she blamed herself for nicky’s death and her mother looked her in the eyes and told her “you are not that important” will haunt me for the entirety of my life

god the realities of addiction and the way they are depicted in this book were so unbelievably raw and real in a way that you could only understand if you’ve had an addict in your life. 

the sisters! the sisterhood of it all! god i don’t have a sister but this book made me feel like i was the fifth blue sister. what i do have is a brother and this book made me realize that there is just simply no one else in the world that is going to understand why you are the way that you are better than your sibling. 

the discussions of grief. the hold it can have on us. the places that it can take us to, good and bad, are so frightening while also being beautiful. god i really have no words. 

avery, bonnie, nicky and lucky forever like wtf i loved this book an unimaginable amount. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

kimveach's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Abandonment, and Alcohol

phoebereads333's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Death of parent, and Classism

jadiedaffodil's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Vomit, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, and Gaslighting

atticusbinch's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Oh, to lose your sister and also lose a permanent part of yourself. 

I'm happy I decided to try reading another Coco Mellors book after the disaster that was trying to read Cleo and Frank. This book is the true definition of finding yourself after having a substantial loss like this. You want to crash and burn rather than be kind to yourself as you're attempting to live without your sacred person. I have so many thoughts about this book that I simply can not put into this review. My heart breaks especially for Avery because she had no choice in being parentified so young. Eldest-daughter syndrome is too much. 

Also, I kinda hated her storyline with Charlie. It felt a little too gross for me considering Aves literally says she's a lesbian after sleeping with him. Felt a little bit too much like "a good man can change a lesbian's sexuality." But I do realize it's a symptom of her temporary sexual psychosis.

Edit: I saw a tiktok of people saying there were weird racist elements. I may have missed them since I listened on x2.5 so subtracted more points from it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual harassment

shesflippinpages's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

kellijones's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This was a well written book about self destruction, and grief, and addiction, and relationships. It was easy to be frustrated with the characters, who were well fleshed out in the story. I'm glad it didn't have a perfectly tidy ending, because life is not full of tidy endings. There was too much objectionable content for me, and I did not relate to the characters much, so I didn't love this story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Grief

booksandabackpack's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Blue Sisters is the story of 3 sisters arriving at the one year anniversary of the fourth sister’s death. While the characters were developed as well as the plot, this book was a big miss for me. 

Every character was harshly distinct from one another with fantastic jobs and unique traits that felt tremendously cliche to me. A family of four sisters all so wildly different from one another felt so forced and like a box was ticked. It wasn’t just with their careers but their sexuality, fashion, living situation, and everything in between. All the side characters were forced into this distinction as well, with their unique identifiers being pushed to the forefront. This completely took me out of the story and felt like a checked off list more than a naturally diverse fictional world. I took multiple notes throughout when a new bauble of a character would appear because it just baffled me. 

While the hodge podge variety of characters took me out of the story, what turned me against it was the treatment of addiction and the power within an age gap relationship. Addiction was clearly a struggle within this family yet it doesn’t tie together demonstrably. The best way I can say it is, icky. Although I’m not looking for a fiction book to promote a healthy way of handling a disease like addiction, this one read too flippant and discombobulated to appreciate it. 

The last quarter was so much stronger than the first half or so but the epilogue was such a disappointment. 

What Mellors did masterfully though was make each of the characters clearly alive on the page, even if they were weighed down by cliches. I’d like to read from her again in a story where the characters aren’t forced to fill out every possibly diverse aspect of a human being. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death