I’ve been wanting to read more literary fiction and Blue Sisters is one I kept seeing everywhere when I made that decision. It took me a little longer than planned, but I finally read this book. Keep on reading to find out more about this book and what I thought.
A big thank you to Netgalley and Ballantine Books for providing me an eARC to read and review. This doesn’t affect my opinion in any way.
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister’s death in this unforgettable story of grief, identity, and the complexities of family.
The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives with her wife in London; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles following a devastating defeat; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in.
But coming home is never as easy as it seems. As the sisters reckon with the disappointments of their childhood and the loss of the only person who held them together, they realize the greatest secrets they’ve been keeping might not have been from each other, but from themselves.
Review
As an only child it’s hard for me to imagine what it’s like to have siblings. I had cousins around, but that’s definitely not the same. I do know family can be messy and this book shows us that in a very realistic way. Every single Blue sisters has flaws and I feel like the author shows us what grief and past family issues can do to someone. That family can be hard but that love for them is something you can’t just turn off.
Blue Sisters has long chapters (a bit too long for me at times), but I loved that we had chapters from Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky’s POV. I appreciated that we not only got how they were all now, but also moments of them in the past. The author got real about the struggles of women these days, trauma, unreliable family, grief and even addiction. I love that we got to see how each sister experienced and looked at the situation they were all dealing with. Everyone feels and sees things in different ways and that can get messy. At the end of the day though, all of these sisters just wanted the other to be okay.
I think that’s all I can really say about Blue Sisters. This book is one of those stories I think everyone just needs to experience themselves. I will say, if you’re someone who needs a bit of action in your stories, Blue Sisters may not be for you. Not a lot happens, but we get a deep dive in all of these characters during multiple times in their lives. This definitely won’t be the last time I read something written by this author.
After reading Blue Sisters, I really want to read Coco Mellors’ other book, Cleopatra and Frankenstein. I definitely need to read more books like this. Do you have any favorites in the literary fiction genre? Let me know in the comments. I definitely need more recommendations.
