“How can you love a frog?” “He’s a very nice green,” six-year-old Io had replied. This thread leads to a frog,” Thais had once chastised. Most threads frayed over time and distance, but never Io’s. If she loved something, even for a minute, like the fish noodles at the market stall or the teacher who’d smiled at her last week, she held on to that love with tooth and claw.

Thais had said once that Io was a hoarder. For example, Rosa-Io’s best friend and the only person who had patiently let Io count her threads-had sixteen: her life-thread, eleven threads leading to her family and friends, three to various spots in the city that were important to her, one to her typewriter, and one to her favorite pair of boots.

Full quote: 'People averaged fifteen threads, the most common being threads to other people they cared about, places they loved, objects that bore some significance. ✨ Book is THREADS THAT BIND by Kika Hatzopoulou out May 30 by Penguin ✨ In which a girl with the power of the Greek Fates becomes embroiled in a nefarious conspiracy. For a long time, she has carried a secret which fills her with shame - and a bright hope: that one day, she is going to meet the boy she is destined to love… #thefatesarecoming #threadsthatbind #threadsthatbindbook #penguinteen #greekfantasybook #2023debuts #yaauthor #yabooks #bookish #bookarcs #authorlife #kikahatzopoulou #bookstagram #bookstagramuk #booktokuk She hates heights, which is unfortunate in a city that exists in rooftops half the time, and suffers from bursts of anxiety. She loves eclairs, scalding hot coffee, her best friend Rosa and her sisters Ava and Thais, her tiny apartment, and well, frogs, if they’re a nice shade of green. Io loves in multitudes: instead of the twenty or so threads of love a normal person has, she has thirty-six.

She uses these powers as a detective in the Silts, the slums where she grew up in. As a descendant of the Moirae, the Greek Fates, she can see and cut the threads that connect people to the things they love – and to life itself. Introducing… IO ORA from Threads That Bind! Io is eighteen, the youngest of three sisters.

Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou