Blue Sisters is all about messy, beautiful sisterhood and the long shadow grief can cast. When Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky gather in New York a year after their younger sister’s overdose, what starts as a reunion spirals into an emotional reckoning. Each sister’s life—Avery the high-powered lawyer in London, Bonnie the tough-as-nails bouncer in L.A., and Lucky the model spiraling in Paris—reflects how loss can twist our coping into addiction, secrets, and self-sabotage

Decent book. Took me a while to get through due to the long chapters and slow going story progression. I'm glad I stuck it out as I enjoyed the last bit

Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky are three sisters that used to be four. A year ago they lost Nicky, the sister that bound them all together. Since her death they have all been untethered and spread out all over the world wrapped up in their grief. When they get word that there parents are going to sell the apartment they grew up in and Nicky had remained in, they have to decide how to proceed…in more ways than one.

I didn’t expect to love this book like I did. If you have a sister, know a sister, love a sister, this book is for you. If you know and addict, are and addict or love and an addict, this book is for you. The exploration that takes place in this book is insane I’ll be thinking about it for a long time.

Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors begins with us learning about each of the four Blue sisters - their unique personalities and how they became the people they are today. We learn very quickly that one of the four has recently passed and now the three left must try to navigate the world without her. We also see how the Blue family is riddled with addictions and how they all have lost themselves in the year since her passing.

Initially, I was hooked. I loved the descriptions of each of the sisters and found Mellors to have a fluidity to her prose that I wasn’t expecting. I was really excited for the book, then it just lost steam and though some say it picks up in the end, I felt like it never fully recovered. I walked away thinking that novel was just fine. Not excellent. Not amazing. Just… fine!

I bet several people will really like or maybe even love this book. I found it to be a little bit too cheesy for my taste. I think I might have pulled a tiny muscle with the amount of eye-rolling I was doing. Some of the writing was giving “live, laugh, love” vibes.

It just wasn’t groundbreaking. It didn’t have much to say that hasn’t already been said before. Yet, I was invested enough to keep turning the pages. I appreciated the tidy resolution.

Thank you Penguin Random House and NetGalley for the advance reader copy!
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another arc!!

excited to read Mellors as i’ve seen nothing but great reviews

This was a 5 star read for me! I read it with the hope that it must get better. And I am so glad it did. Their struggles were very real, their journey was sad and poetic and it was almost as if I was reading someone biography. Coco mellors has an amazing quality of writing characters that may not be likelable but yet you root for them to succeed.

Coco Mellors writes with such lush, emotional clarity that even the heaviest moments feel oddly beautiful. This novel, centered on three sisters reeling from the loss of a fourth, is a slow, aching exploration of grief, family roles, and the tangled mess of sisterhood.

Told from three perspectives, it’s less about individual arcs and more about the web of relationships between them—the ways love turns into control, how heartbreak reshapes desire, and how family wounds echo through adulthood. The prose is stunning, the characters complex, and the emotions raw.

It’s a heavy read, but Mellors ends on a quiet, hopeful note that makes the journey feel worth it. This one lingers long after you finish it.

Family trauma, identity, addiction, and the complexities of womanhood—all wrapped in lush, immersive prose. The pacing can feel uneven, especially in the second half, and that the ending leans a bit sentimental. But for many, the emotional payoff and the raw, honest portrayal of sisterhood more than make up for it.

Thank you to NetGallery and Ballantine Books for the arc!

Thank you to Ballantine for this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review. This book follows three sisters: Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky, and how they are coping with the grief of their fourth sister, Nicky. It's pretty much if Little Women was written by Sally Rooney. Coco Mellors' writing isn't for everyone, but I think this book might scratch the itch if you're looking for something in the vein of Sally Rooney's Intermezzo that followed the two brothers, or are looking for a modern twist on Little Women. I didn't find this to be exceptional, but it was good. It dragged at times, but I think it ultimately captured what it set out to do, which was detail a complicated and raw account of womanhood and sisterhood in the face of adulthood and grief.

Heartbreaking, hopeful saga - Blue Sisters: A Read with Jenna Pick weaves resilience, sisterhood, and healing in a deeply emotional narrative. The bonds, struggles, and triumphs stay with you long after the last page.

This was one of the best books I've ever read. It's not easy to have four protagonists, but Mellors was able to paint a vibrant and complex inner world for every main character. I skipped work to finish it!

This book had been in my queue for way too long and I'm so glad I moved it to the top of the list. I love a good sister story--from the classic "Little Women" to the modern TV show "Bad Sisters." Each of the four sisters in this book had a distinct personality. I could see each of them clearly and understand their inner lives---tough for a writer to do! This book delves into addiction, family dynamics, the psychology of avoidance/denial, and the power of sisterhood. The relationship between siblings is always so interesting. They are often people we wouldn't choose as friends, but who end up enriching our lives in so many ways. Even fraught sibling relationships can show us who we are like no other relationship can. The writing in this book was beautiful and I can't wait for her next.

A truly miraculous, honest, and beautiful take on family, sisterhood, redemption, addiction, womanhood, grief, and more - and one of my favorite #bookcovers in a while, to boot.

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Four essentially estranged sisters, all of whom grew up on top of one another in a cramped New York City apartment, with their alcoholic father and unorthodox, detached mother, are as different as night and day. Avery - a former runaway and addict turned successful, workhorse corporate attorney. Bonnie, a former female boxing powerhouse whose life has turned into a hideaway of shame and loneliness as a Venice Beach dive bar bouncer. Nicky, the beloved, All-American sorority girl, pink lipgloss, sugar and spice sister, whose dreams of being a mother will never materialize. And Lucky - the youngest Blue who left home before 18 to pursue a modeling career, but whose partying and substances issues threaten to cripple her.

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When Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky are forced to come together again and face their choices and demons, in the aftermath of Nicky’s unexpected death, with all of their lives unraveling, they are reached forced to remember what love and sisterhood truly mean.

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Absolutely phenomenal read.

Coco Mellors has captured the unique experience of sisterhood in a way that is both brutally honest and achingly poignant. The dynamics between the sisters felt so messy and human in a way that really grounded the story. Coco Mellors has a way with words and can sum up complex human experiences with a brevity that packs a punch.

I rated it the way I did, not because of a lack of quality writing, but because I found it difficult to sit with the story for too long before needing a break. This is a well written book, just not the best book for me.

I was initially super excited to read this because I loved Cleopatra and Frankenstein but this just didn't resonate with me. The writing felt very stilted and I found myself struggling to finish this. Honestly, I just didn't really care enough about the characters and the sisters just started to blend together after awhile.

I am a sucker for a family drama, especially one with sisters. Mellors does an excellent job painting individual portraits of these four women, all of whom are complex in their desires and motivations.

Blue Sisters is an emotional rollercoaster in the best possible sense. Coco Mellors has a sharp, empathetic eye for family dynamics, and the bond between the sisters—messy, complicated, and deeply loving—felt incredibly real. The characters are flawed in ways that make them feel alive, and I found myself caring about each of them even when I didn’t agree with their choices.

The writing is vivid and raw, with just the right mix of humor and heartbreak. Mellors does a great job balancing the heavier themes (grief, addiction, identity) with moments of levity and tenderness that hit surprisingly hard. It’s a story about loss, yes, but also about resilience, reconnection, and the strange ways love shows up.

I knocked off one star only because the pacing felt uneven at times—some sections really pulled me in, while others meandered a bit or felt slightly overstuffed. Still, I couldn’t put it down for long.

If you enjoy character-driven stories about messy families and emotional growth, this one’s a strong pick. It’s chaotic, cathartic, and deeply human.

Cleopatra and Frankenstein was one of my favorite books of the year when it came out, but this one was just not meant for me unfortunately :( I really wanted to love another Little Women inspired sisters book, but I’m also getting kind of tired of it, especially after reading Hello Beautiful earlier this year (which I loved). I didn’t connect with the addiction part of this book, and I found the sisters really hard to like. It was just too sad of a book for me, and maybe I was just not in the right place mentally for this book, but I could see how someone else might really like and connect with it.

I am surprised not just by how much I enjoyed this book but also by how much it has stuck with me in the couple of weeks between finishing it and finally sitting down to write this review. The Blue Sisters got under my skin and haven't let me go. Avery, Nicky, and Lucky all have their own problems, to the point where it sometimes does not seem realistic. But yet it somehow all works. They feel like real people, not just characters in a book, with all their flaws and complicated dynamics. I loved reading as they all came together over grief and worked through their problems, both individually and as siblings. I would happily read a sequel about these sisters.

I had hoped there would be more distinctive voices between the sisters, but I had a hard time with that. At times the story felt repetitive to me, Otherwise I really loved the story itself and getting to be a part of the family dynamics.

Bring out your napkins! This book will bring out your ugly tears and is guaranteed to tear your heart open. Each connection with the characters may resonate with your own life story, vices, resentments, family problems, and redemptions. The powerful, genuine, and profound story of the Blue Sisters Saga is a must-read!