Blue Sisters
Lush, cozy prose ... Though not all of Mellors’s metaphors land...and her prose can collapse into sentimentality, she is nonetheless able to capture the ferality, stickiness and beauty of both sisterhood and grief.
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The characterisation of each of the sisters is strong, offering a complexity and humanity that elevates what at times reads as quite tedious exposition of the past, repetition of thought, and frustratingly slow forward momentum ... Mellors’ debut highlighted her talent for a twinkling turn of phrase and clever wordplay, but one that was weakened by its overuse. This tendency to over-write, over-explain and tell all in often excruciating detail prevails here ... The main narrative is not centred on lovers this time, but the sibling chemistry crackles, which ultimately delivers a sophomoric story from Mellors with a more convincing heartbeat.
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The dialogue is frequently excruciating ... But the book was undeniably immediate, sexy and fast-paced. There were flashes of writerly beauty too, if you took time to separate the wheat from the cringe ... The heart of the novel is love and grief, not lust and ambition ... Blips are more forgivable when there is a core of humanity at the novel’s heart.
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