Tiny Threads, Lilliam Rivera
Tiny Threads, Lilliam Rivera
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Tiny Threads

Author: Lilliam Rivera

Narrator: Frankie Corzo

Unabridged: 7 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/24/2024


Synopsis

In this sinister, slow-burn novel of supernatural suspense, a young woman gets her dream job working for a famous designer—and discovers the dark side of high-stakes fashion.

“Lilliam Rivera cuts the fashion industry to shreds in this horror-filled take on late-stage capitalism.”—CrimeReads, "Best Books of the Year"

Fashion-obsessed Samara finally has the life she’s always dreamed of: A high-powered job with legendary designer Antonio Mota. A new home in sunny California, far away from those drab Jersey winters. And an intriguing love interest, Brandon, a wealthy investor in Mota’s fashion line.

But it’s not long before Samara’s dream life begins to turn into a living nightmare as Mota’s big fashion show approaches and the pressure on her turns crushing. Perhaps that’s why she begins hearing voices in her room at night—and seeing strange things that can’t be explained away by stress or anxiety or the number of drinks she’s been consuming.

And it may not be just Samara imagining things as her psyche unravels, because she soon discovers hints that her new city—and the House of Mota—may be built on a foundation of secrets and lies. Now Samara must uncover what hideous truths lurk in the shadows of this illusory world of glamour and beauty before those shadows claim her.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kara on February 13, 2024

I was so excited for the premise of this story - like a gothic Devil Wears Prada, but with supernatural horror!! Alas, that is not what this was. Instead, we see the main character, Samara, escaping some sort of trauma, fleeing across the country to a new, stressful job and self-medicating like craz......more

Goodreads review by AndiReads on February 05, 2024

This Latina Gothic story will haunt you long after you finish the novel. Samara has uprooted herself to California to work for a legendary designer with a legendary temper. The stress of working for the aging desinger causes Samara to drink to excess. Maybe that is why she hears voices every night o......more

Goodreads review by thevampireslibrary on March 29, 2024

The Devil Wears Prada but if it was produced by A24, this haunting story had the same paranoid insidious atmosphere found in Rosemary's Baby, somethings not quite right in the city of Vernon, Rivera seamlessly weaves threads ( 👀 ) of supernatural horror and the very real horrors of racism and oppres......more

Goodreads review by OutlawPoet on March 04, 2024

I really wanted to like this, and I did not. Samara frustrated the heck out of me. She was so busy being ‘not like other girls’ and ‘pick me’ that I just hated her. Her background should have resonated with me, but every time she put on her ‘white voice’ (her words), I wanted to scream. I loved that t......more

Goodreads review by Katie on February 28, 2024

I’m honestly unsure how to start this review. I’ll start by saying that I am extremely grateful for the opportunity provided by NetGalley, Random House - Ballantine, and Lilliam Rivera to read this book ahead of publication. I’m struggling to try to find things that I liked about this book outside of......more


Quotes

Tiny Threads lives up to its genre. It is a horror novel, its supernatural and real elements interwoven so seamlessly that the reader begins to question reality. . . . Tiny Threads is also a social critique. . . . Rivera’s talent is formidable enough to make the book’s big questions as engrossing as its horrors.”Los Angeles Times
 
“Lilliam Rivera cuts the fashion industry to shreds in this horror-filled take on late stage capitalism.”CrimeReads
 
“If you’re in the mood for a hallucinatory, terrifying tale that involves a character’s sanity unraveling, add this one to your TBR pile.”Reader’s Digest
 
“A fashion writer tangles with sinister secrets in this harrowing haute couture thriller. . . . There’s enough masterful detailing and vividly imagined scares to keep readers on pins and needles. Horror fans shouldn’t miss it.”Publishers Weekly

“A shimmering supernatural thriller that interrogates the world of fashion through a sharp, critical eye . . . I couldn’t put it down.”—Sarah Rose Etter, author of RIPE and The Book of X

Tiny Threads is a chilling and compelling tale of a young woman trying to find herself even as she’s desperate to shed her past. Beneath the novel’s irresistible world of fashion and style—and beyond the sinister, supernatural plot twists—lies a story of erasure and grief that won’t soon let you go. Lilliam Rivera’s work will haunt you.”—Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling author of California

“Ephemeral and haunting and layered in captivating prose, Tiny Threads is a modern Gothic jewel. Lilliam Rivera spins the fabric of grief, social structures, and painful secrets wrapped in ancestry and history that whisper to us in the night and challenge us in the day.”—Bram Stoker Award–winning author Cynthia Pelayo

“A searing novel . . . Rivera shows you a side of the fashion industry you’ve never seen before.”—Erika T. Wurth, author of White Horse

Tiny Threads is a hallucinatory, irresistible tale about the slow unraveling of generational trauma, the intersection of beauty and violence, and the monstrous power of reclamation. Vicious, terrifying, and glamorous, with a character so real I felt her pulse in my own throat . . . You won’t know whether you’re devouring this novel or it’s devouring you. Lilliam Rivera is a force.”—Katie Gutierrez, bestselling author of More Than You’ll Ever Know