3.5/5 Tiny Threads

Samara is living her dream. She's accepted a job with the infamous designer Antonio Mota, been given a fancy new apartment, and is surrounded by high class clothes and people. But there's a darker side to the city of Vernon and the people who reside in it. A slaughterhouse "perfume" coats the streets, pigs squeals in the night, and Samara is having visions of a blood soaked woman. 

Are these visions simply the effect of her heavy drinking mixed with the caffeine pills and drugs she's using to keep up with the high stress fashion work environment or is she truly being haunted by the ghosts of Vernon's past. 

The Devil Wears Prada meets Last Night In Soho, wrapped in psychological horror - Tiny Threads shows how systemic racism and classism can be just as terrifying, if not more so, than being haunted by literal ghosts. 

It took me a good eighty pages to get into the swing of this novel. The focus of the first half of the book is primarily character development and background of Samara. There are snippets of horror elements until the halfway point, when Samara begins to spiral, then more direct hauntings come into the story after that. 

Samara was a difficult character to connect to for me mostly because she needed everyone to like her, she wanted to be the center of attention receiving "gold stars" with every complement, and that's my least favorite type of person. I understand that is a part of fashion industry culture and key to the novel but her anxiety about being liked didn't endear me to her until the very end. 

Overall, Tiny Threads was an enjoyable read and I would recommend it to those who enjoy psychological horror. 

Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read an ARC copy of this novel.