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As irmãs Blue + brindes by Coco Mellors

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kimveach's review against another edition

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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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gabriellegoldenhour's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective relaxing sad tense fast-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

4.5

Wow. I really loved like 95% of this book. The other 5% was mixed throughout and no deal breakers or anything. I cried and fell in love with the book from the prologue and cried and fell in love with the book again at the epilogue. The audiobook was great and I look forward to purchasing a hard copy to reread again. A lovely, challenging story about sisters, addiction (in all of its forms), how hard it is to be a human and exist and have relationships, and more.

Also! As someone who struggles with endometriosis and PCOS, it was beautiful to normalize Nikki’s story; alongside with the other sister’s, that you can’t always tell someone’s struggles from the outside. Nor can your assumptions or presumptions of them change how they feel.

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elemae98's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

3.25

this book was hard to read, I find that you need to be in a similar state of mind to the characters to read this book, since I was not I found it very hard to pick up the book and read it.

it's not because it's not good but maybe because I am a sister as well, I found this book too realistic for my taste, too close to home.

all of the characters were very well thought out and it was clear that they weren't just carbon copies of one another and that they all had their own personalities, which I highly enjoyed even if I didn't exactly like some of the characters (Avery & Lucky).

overall I would recommend this book but I don't think I would re-read this one, but I would never say never!

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meganclaire7's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

Blue Sisters follows four sisters as they navigate through life. Coco Mellors tackles tough topics like addiction, grief, love and loss. Mellors portrays the sisters in a very 2D way — the oldest one, the tough one, the dead one, and the youngest one. However, how she shows them interacting with each other is really the golden part of this novel. Mellors portrays siblings with such accuracy. Though I don’t have sisters myself, I found her depiction relatable even to my interactions with my brothers.

Peaks!
-Mellors writing is so good with fitting the moods of her characters, as Lucky is spiraling, you can feel it in her writing as it becomes choppy to truly fit the vibes of each scene.
-I found the characters extremely relatable, Mellors does a great job of humanizing all the sisters making each one at least a little relatable to the reader. I felt this really pulled at my emotions and kept me reading.
-I love a good nature vs nurture argument so I think it’s really interesting to see how Mellors portrayed these sisters all growing up together in the same situation and how they each grew and changed on their own afterwards.

Valleys!
-I wish we got more from Bonnie & Nicky! We got so much of Avery and Lucky, I wish we got a Nicky POV or even more of Bonnie and her fighting scenes.
-I felt like the last 50 pages of the novel were super rushed, I wish Mellors elaborated more and gave us more overall to wrap it up.

In short:
I enjoyed the book! I think it was a good read, especially around the holidays to serve as a reminder that no family is perfect and every family/set of siblings has their ups and downs.

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jadiedaffodil's review against another edition

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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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alexisgarcia's review against another edition

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emotional 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

3.5

a great book about how different people handle grief and loss. i didn’t really like any of the characters which is typically pretty important for me in a book though

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