This book was incredibly written and incredibly sad and so good that you will not want to put it down. If you don’t like sad books, don’t bother reading this review. Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors was one of my favorites that I’ve read this year. It’s about three sisters, the Blue sisters, who go through their life facing many hardships like grief, addiction, and growing up in their seemingly dysfunctional family.
The three sisters, who were once four, lost their sister Nicky a year ago and they’re trying to figure out how to go along with life but in their own separate ways. Lucky is travelling the world as a model, and despite her success and wealth from her career at such a young age, she really isn’t so lucky in terms of her extreme addiction to drugs and alcohol. Avery, the oldest sister, was a Columbia grad but then found herself living on the streets with a heroin addiction, until one day she just decided to turn her life completely around and now lives with her wife as a successful lawyer. And then there’s Bonnie, a boxer, yet has been watching her career rise and fall over the past few years and doesn’t know how to move on.
Each of these sisters have their own problems but are unable to admit it to each other or even to themselves. Despite Avery’s recovery, she isn’t as perfect as she makes herself out to be. Regardless of Lucky’s success, eventually her luck will run out when she realizes what she is doing to herself. And for Bonnie, she will never be able to make a happy life for herself unless she is doing what she loves, and what if she isn’t able to?
When the sisters all return to their childhood home a year after Nicky dies, many emotions are brought up and many arguments. It is sad, it is sad to read and it is sad to know that it’s very realistic, and that life isn’t perfect for anyone no matter what they present on the outside.
Grab your tissue box for this one because you will definitely need it. Watching the sisters rebuild themselves and move past their addictive coping mechanisms was very nice to read. I gave this book five stars and there really is nothing bad for me to say about it.