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A review by meganclaire7
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
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.
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, and Alcohol