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As irmãs Blue + brindes by Coco Mellors

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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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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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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

Blue Sisters is transcendent. The characters, the interactions, the conflict, the sisters, everything seems so real, so heartbreaking but also hopeful in a way.

You have characters that are reprehensible, they commit multiple mistakes, but I still learned to love them and see them for themselves but also how they were seen by their sisters. And the descriptions of the relationships, the way that unity and conflict happen and split within seconds, everything was simply the way things actually are. I’m one of multiple sisters and at each point of the story I saw my own relationship with my sisters reflected back to me.

I definitely recommend this book and will be rereading it in the future without a doubt. I can’t wait to see what Coco will do next.

Some of my fav quotes:

“They say you don’t know your principles until they become inconvenient to you, and Avery is proof of this. She is deeply principled and often inconvenienced.”

“She was a carnival of feelings she never tried to hide. Sometimes she was the ecstatic swirl of a carousel, sometimes she was a bumper car collision, sometimes she was the still target waiting in the shooting gallery.”

“As long as you are alive, it is never too late to be found.”

And so many more. It made me wish to be able to express myself in this way.

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dark 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

3.75

Took me a while to get into. Lots of heavy subject matter, but ultimately I loved the bonds that kept Lucky, Bonnie, and Avery together through it all. Family is everything.

As the oldest of four, I loved this quote:
“Once Bonnie noticed it, she saw the world was made up of fours. The seasons. The elements. The points on a compass. Four suits in a pack of cards. Four chambers of a human heart. Bonnie loved being a part of this mystical number, this perfect symmetry of two sets of two.”

Your siblings are an inextricable part of your heart. Of your brain. Of your history. The bonds we share are all we have, and this illustrated that so well.

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