Blue Sisters

What beautiful writing and the storyline is gripping. A heart warming story about addiction and overcoming the same. Stole my heart!!!

Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors is her latest release and the second book about three sisters exploring the first death anniversary and grief of their fourth sister - Nicky. Lucky, Avery, and Bonnie all come back together since their mother wants to sell the house their childhood home, and the one in which they all grew up together.

This is more than just about grief, it is about adulthood, self-sabotage, family, bonds and relationships, self-growth, and sisterhood. The memories that they hold in this apartment are both happy and sad as well, being their addictions, etc. But each one of them now comes together and also sees how her mother goes through the grief of her daughter.

A lot of their childhood and flashbacks are also discussed which I liked about this book and brought more depth to the story. Honestly, this one is so much better than her first book in terms of writing, articulation, and story-telling. The characters are very messy but at the same time something which we all must have gone through in some magnitude or less.

I would say this one is worth a try and a good read. It is going to be heavy at times so do keep that in mind.

It was a like a gentle hug, I never knew I needed. Written very brilliantly. I'm feeling full and yet not able put it into words. Concluding as a Good read :)

if i were to identify a common theme among all the books i’ve read this year, it’d be grief. what i’ve come to realise about grief is that it’s a form of love, a love you can no longer give and hence painful. rightly said, “grief is the price we pay for love”.

blue sisters follows - avery, bonnie, nicky and lucky with connections to the world’s major metropolitans: nyc, london, briefly LA and even paris. in this sense, it’s a quintessential urban read perfect for @theurban_reader this summer (i was sitting in that one for a while, can you tell?).

avery, the firstborn - obviously has eldest daughter syndrome - is a kickass lawyer who lives in london with her wife chitti (while the book deserves kudos for its diversity, chitti’s character sometimes falls into stereotypical patterns).

bonnie, a world champion boxer - glad fiction doesn’t have bigots to question whether her hard landing punches made her a woman or not- who takes a break from boxing and works as a bouncer in LA.

nicky, the sister whom the remaining three are grieving after she passed away in their childhood nyc apartment cause of an overdose, an overdose cause of the pills she took to elevate her pain caused by endometriosis. the sister who held them all together. the sister whom they all remember as the perfect one.

and finally the youngest one - lucky, a chaotic gorgeous mess, a global-trotting model since she was 15 and in my very honest opinion the most infuriating of the siblings but definitely adds to the books’s sisterly drama.

the first two-thirds of the book are engaging, with strong pacing and detailed character development. i particularly enjoyed bonnie’s reflections on boxing, her self-perception, and to only be ever known by the sister she lost. however, the last one-third felt drawn out, i felt the book could’ve benefitted by being 60-80 pages shorter. the ending while not entirely satisfying was like an umbilical cord - tough, sinuous, unlovely, yet essential… like a sister.

maybe the ending wasn’t for me but i’m sure you’d enjoy reading about the complex lives of these sisters and learn a bit more on how grief too works in mysterious ways.

Packaging , quality and story all good .