Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou - OPTIONAL

Threads That Bind
by Kika Hatzopoulou,
352 pages. Penguin Young Readers Group/Razorbill, 2023. $17 

Language: R (107 swears 0 'f'); Mature Content: PG-13 (detailed kissing) Violence: R (bleeding, dead security guards, bloody injury, bloody death with details, bloody shootings, torn out throats.) 

BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

18yo Io lives with her sister Ava in the half-sunken city of Alante. The eldest sister, Thais, raised them after their parents died but left abruptly two years ago to be on her own. The three sisters are descendants of the Fates who decide the lives of others. Io is an investigator trying to solve murders and Ava is a performer at the Mob Queen’s casino. Thais is the fiancé of Io’s number one suspect and high-ranking politician. When Io finally discovers the truth behind the murders, it’s going to alter her life and all that she believes in. 

So many descriptions of magic-born abilities that it became confusing. Slow building story, so it took a while to draw me in. I enjoyed the characters Io and Edei and the prophecy that ties them together. Edei had brown skin but ethnicity predominantly falls to white 

LynnDell Watson, Delta High School Librarian

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