Book Blurb:
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.
My Review: 4.25 stars
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors sold me from the cover art alone! Who were these girls and what made them tic? I was thrilled to dig into the audio version of this one and so glad for the opportunity to review it.
These sisters are entirely different from one another, yet they love each other wholly and completely. They are the yin to each other’s yang. When one of the sister’s dies, the siblings are broken. Rather than leaning into each other, they fall apart and use destructive behaviors as coping mechanisms. Addiction is a huge theme throughout the novel, including addiction to drugs and alcohol, to pain, to stealing and to lying.
Watching these girls come to terms with their childhood trauma, the loss of their sister and finding a way to come back together was messy and raw. This story was crafted in a way that made you feel the sibling’s angst and pain. Their personal growth was described with sensitivity and tenderness.
I own the author’s previous book Cleopatra and Frankenstein and look forward to reading it soon.
Quotes I liked:
But what they don’t know is this: As long as you are alive, it is never too late to be found.”
“It was easy to love someone in the beginnings and endings; it was all the time in between that was so hard.”
“True sisterhood is not the same as friendship. You don’t choose each other and there is no furtive period of getting to know each other. You are a part of each other, right from the start.”
“He was the only man in the house, but he also was the house. They lived inside his moods.”
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