Blue Sisters: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By: Coco Mellors

Narrated by: Kit Griffiths

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister’s death in this “deeply nuanced and compelling” (Vogue) novel, from the acclaimed author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein.

“A beautiful portrait of grief and the world-shaping bond sisters share.”—Real Simple

A VOGUE AND HARPER’S BAZAAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

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 the family 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 that the greatest secrets they’ve been keeping might not have been from one another but from themselves.

Imbued with Coco Mellors’s signature combination of humor and heart, Blue Sisters is a story of what it takes to keep living after loss—and, ultimately, to fall in love with life again.

Good story terrible narrator

Better to read the book I think. The narrator was monotone and annoying to listen to.

The story was lovely. The relationships between the sisters and their mothers really resonated. It was tormented and sweet.

I didn’t care for the voice of the narrator. Although the book has beautiful prose and the narrators accents was the native tongue of the main characters it was choppy and distracting to the telling of the story.

Horrible narration

I am sorry for saying this but the narrator absolutely ruined this book for me. Her voice was monotone but what bothered me the most was when she would pause at awkward parts of a sentence that just completely disrupted the flow of the storytelling. I got through half before I gave up. The story was alright so far, nothing too special happened yet. I probably would have continued if the narration would have been better.

Overrated story

This make all the rounds but I found the story to be flat and predictable. As someone who is on a journey through grief I’m not sure the author has gone through one yet. The experiences with grief seemed very canned.

The biggest dislike with this story, as mentioned, is the narrator. Too many dialects and forced accents.

The love between the sisters was so endearing.

The narrator was very flat and not fun to listen to. Her monotone narration made it hard to listen.