Blue Sisters A Read with Jenna Pick by Coco Mellors
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Web ID: 20312154A pleasant read that leaves you in a good place.
I love these kinds of stories. The family bonds grow weak, but through struggle and time, they're strengthened. A pleasant read that leaves you in a good place. Thank you to Random House Publishing Group- Ballantine for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.
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4⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sign me up for the next book Coco Mellors! Blue Sisters is incredibly well written in ways that will keep you up late, immersing yourself page, after page. Heavily character driven with superb development. Nicky, Bonnie, Lucky and Avery. This is their story of grief, hope, and the difficulties of family dynamics with an alcoholic father and an emotionally unattached mother. As the sisters come to grips with their not so perfect childhood and the loss of their sister, Nicky, they realize that life really does have other plans. How even though life sucks and each one of them has battled addiction, fought for their sanity, fought with each other and for each other. They were also the only ones who could save each other. But, would you want to tell the others about your dirty little secrets? Blue Sisters had me dragging myself, willingly, through an emotional knothole.
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Great Family Drama
This novel has great character portrayal and character development. Meet the Blue sisters. You have the oldest, Avery, the mother hen of the group. Avery is a successful London lawyer after recovering from drug addiction in her early 20s. She is now thirty-three, married to her partner, and has been clean for ten years. Next is Bonnie. Bonnie was an amateur boxer turned professional boxer now turned bouncer. After losing her last fight, she fled from NY City to LA to more or less hide out. She is in love with her trainer but feels it's an unrequited love. Nicky is the third daughter, perhaps the most normal. Nicky is a teacher and wants children of her own in the worst way. The baby of the family is Lucky. Lucky became a professional fashion model at 15 and has lived in Paris for the last several years. Lucky is an addict currently. We encounter the Blue sisters on the anniversary of the death of the third sister, Nicky. Nicky had dealt with excruciatingly painful endometriosis, got painkillers on the street that were laced with fentanyl, and died of an overdose a year ago. Nicky was the "normal" sister. The sisters were always meant to be a quartet. There was always supposed to be the four of them together, the four against the world. This is the story of how people deal with grief, spiral out of control, wish for do-overs and then deal with grief some more. Enter the Blue sisters' parents - Mom tells Avery after the one year anniversary of Nicky's death that she never really knew if she ever wanted children and that she knew she wasn't good at "mothering." Dad is finally in a rehab facility for his drinking problem, but the liver damage is already there. This novel is about the bond of family, but more importantly, the bond of sisterhood. It's a story about leaning on each other, helping each other, and wishing you would have done it right the first time. It's a story about realizing mistakes, making more mistakes, and finally learning from those mistakes. The story's setting alternates between London, Paris, LA, NY City, and upstate NY. POVs are utilized from each of the four sisters. I really enjoyed Coco Mellors' style of presentation. She conveys grief and angst so convincingly with her characters' actions. Thank you, NetGalley and Ballentine Books, for this powerful portrayal of sisterhood.
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Blue by Name, Blue by Emotion
There's a reason why this book has had the buzz it has. Stunning and heartbreaking and thoroughly engaging, this is a story that will stick with you for a very long time. Three sisters, who have taken very different paths in life are brought back together for the anniversary of the death of their 4th sister and news of emotional upheaval by the sale of their childhood home. Sounds sad, but not necessarily life-changing, but as there often is, there is much more behind this, and the story is told beautifully by Mellors. I've added her debut novel "Cleopatra and Frankenstein" to my TBR and can't wait to dig in. My thanks to Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, the author, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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love and loss between sisters
Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky Blue are sisters fighting their way through the grief of the death of their sister Nicky, who died exactly one year ago on the fourth of July. Fighting sounds extreme, you say? Well each of them is lost in a different way, and they all have inner demons they are battling. To me their current existence is full of emotionally charged habits, choices, and consequences. I have two sisters, and imagining losing one of them is very painful, so I can easily put myself in any of the Blue sisters shoes and understand their pain. I wanted to reach into the book and grab hold of them and tell them to be nice to themselves and to each other, but I also know these are things they have to learn for themselves. The sisters are highly, realistically flawed, and I really appreciated their depth, fragility, raw emotions, and ultimately their strength (even if they didn't realize they had it). Reading their story and resulting growth journeys was painful at times, and emotionally bruising as well.
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Family at its best and worst
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors All families have characteristics that manifest repetitively in generations. For the Blue family, that characteristic is addiction. While each of the four sisters this novel revolves around, the addiction is obsession with their chosen field with an unhealthy dose if substances. Until one of them dies and they have to face the self-destruction that they each practice alone and realize how much they need each other. This novel tells the four different stories of the sisters, twining them together to a finish that was not predictable. The sisters are unique and frustrating, but we cheer them on anyway. It is a love letter to family, home and New York City. Thanks to NetGalley and Random House/Ballantine for the review copy.
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Dysfunction personified
Blue Sisters By Coco Mellors This is the story of four sisters: Avery, the oldest, a recovered addict, now a practicing attorney living in London with her wife Chiti; Bonnie, once a competitive boxer, now working as a bouncer in a California bar; Nickey, the only "normal" one, a high school teacher who has died due to a drug overdose while dealing with endometriosis; and Lucky, beautiful, a model, who left home at 15 to travel the world and spend every cent she makes and booze, drugs and partying. Does this sound like a dysfunctional family? Heck yes. I read about half of this book before getting so bogged down in all the drama that I gave up. Nothing here rang true or was close to believable. I found that I really didn’t like or care about any of the sisters. I'm not sure what the author was going for here, but for me it didn't work.
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Such a beautiful story
Coco Mellors is a truly gifted writer. Her newest novel honestly covered some heavy topics, and subject matter but after reading it I feel so much lighter! Addiction, loss, self sabotage and manipulation; just to name a few. This is a beautiful story that everyone can relate to in someway or another and I hope everyone reads it! I received an E -ARC of this title from NetGalley. This review is honest, unbiased, and completely my own.
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