It’s hard to review this without comparing it to Blue Sisters now that I have read both and I will say I liked that one more, but I’m still rating this five stars because I want Coco Mellors to keep writing books forever and I do think this deserves a separate kind of five stars. The characters are so unlikeable which I know bothers so many people but if you know me you know I love to read about people making poor decisions and muddling their way through life because aren’t we all? There were a few lines that absolutely gut-punched me (like when Cleo says “I want my mom” in the hospital—crying just thinking about it) and the entirety of Eleanor’s chapters were gorgeous. Anyway I didn’t mean to write this much but basically this book made me think about the randomness of life and how much the people we bring into it matter and how we’re all just trying to figure it out. And I love books that do that.