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#FashionVictim: A Novel Hardcover – September 11, 2018

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Heathers meets The Devil Wears Prada in this “sick and vicious and funny” thriller set in the cut-throat world of fashion (Caroline Kepnes, New York Times–bestselling author of You)

Fashion editor Anya St. Clair is on the verge of greatness. A to-die-for wardrobe. Killer social media numbers. And the path behind her is littered with the bodies of anyone who got in her way. She’s worked hard to get where she is, but she doesn’t have everything.

Not like Sarah Taft. Anya’s obsession sits one desk away. Beautiful, stylish, and rich, Sarah’s a natural fashion icon. From her beach-wave blonde hair to her on-trend nail art, she’s a walking editorial spread. Anya wants to be her friend. Her best friend. Her only friend.

When Sarah becomes her top competition for a promotion, Anya’s plan to win her friendship goes into overdrive. In order to beat Sarah, she’ll have to become her. Friendly competition may turn fatal, but as they say in fashion: One day you’re in, and the next day you’re dead.

 
“As awesome as it sounds . . . welcome to the cruel world of fashion where women’s looks, weight, and youth is the only thing to value.” —Book Riot
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Praise for #FashionVictim:

“#FashionVictim is sick and vicious and funny and voicey...I ’totes’ loved this one."
—Caroline Kepnes, New York Times bestselling author

"For those craving a new fashionably vicious read, this book is darkly satisfying."
—Martha Stewart Living

"A diabolical page-turner...impossible to put down."
—Forbes

"Darkly funny."
—Fashionista

"As awesome as it sounds...welcome to the cruel world of fashion where women’s looks, weight, and youth is the only thing to value."
—Book Riot

Hilariously funny as well as profoundly unsettling...will keep readers hooked and laughing, if a bit uncomfortably, from Page 1 until the shocking ending.”
—Kirkus

"Full of suspense, social satire, and deliciously dark humor, #FashionVictim gives ’killer wardrobe’ a whole new meaning. I couldn’t put it down."
—Alison Gaylin, USA Today Bestselling Author of If I Die Tonight

“#FashionVictim is sharp, stylish, and gleefully sinister; you’ll never read Vogue the same way again."
—Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks, founders of Go Fug Yourself and authors of the national bestseller, The Royal We

“#FashionVictim gives new meaning to the phrase “Dressed to Kill”...instead of the devil wearing Prada, she’s wearing her victim’s blood in a perfect shade of Essie red."
— Aliza Licht, EVP marketing & communications and the author of Leave Your Mark

“Every page of #FashionVictim pops with a dark and dishy verve. Fierce in every sense of the word.”
—Jessica Tom, author of Food Whore

"#FashionVictim is a book to not only buy, keep and read, but to inhale from page one. The sense of menace in the prologue will hook readers from the get-go, and Akhtar’s sharp as a tack writing will carry you along this entertaining read to a stunning end, um, ending."
—New York Journal of Books

"Gleefully bloodthirsty...This dark novel has the energy of Heathers gone 20-something."
—Publishers Weekly

“The characters reminded me a great deal of the dark movie, Heathers...A whole lot of sick fun...All I can hope is that the author was not speaking from reality...and that another book will be written very, very soon."
—Suspense Magazine

"The story’s dark humor is one of its best attributes, and while the reader may wonder if Anya will get caught, there’s no doubt that whatever happens, she’ll be dressed to kill."
—Mystery Scene

About the Author

Amina Akhtar is a former fashion writer and editor. She’s worked at Vogue, Elle, Style, NYTimes.com, and NYMag.com, where she was the founding editor of The Cut blog. She’s written for numerous publications, including Yahoo Style, Fashionista, xoJane, Refinery29, Billboard, and for brands like Bergdorf Goodman and H&M’s 10 Years of Style tome. After toiling in the fashion ranks for over 15 years, she now writes full time in the desert mountains, where she’s detoxing from her once glam life. #FashionVictim is Amina’s first novel.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 168331834X
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crooked Lane Books (September 11, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781683318347
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1683318347
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.8 x 1 x 8.6 inches
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Amina Akhtar is a former fashion writer and editor. She’s worked at Vogue, Elle.com, Style.com, NYTimes.com, and NYMag.com where she was the founding editor of The Cut blog. She’s written for numerous publications, including Yahoo Style, Fashionista, xoJane, Refinery29, Billboard, and for brands like Bergdorf Goodman and H&M’s 10 Years of Style tome. After toiling in the fashion ranks for over fifteen years, she now writes full time in the desert mountains, where she’s detoxing from her once glam life. #FashionVictim is Amina’s first novel.

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#FashionVictim is a treat, like running through a Halloween haunted house — you know it’s all pretend, but you still laugh-cry as your heart races, and you keep going while wondering what’s coming around the corner. Being inside Anya's mind is a demented roller coaster ride that you can’t get off, so might as well enjoy it. You start off asking what others must be seeing/ thinking in reality, but it’s so much more fun to go along with #TeamAnya. I think the most important question to ask is whether you have ever had thoughts like Anya’s. There are some definite surprises at the end. Crossing fingers for the next part to Anya’s story.
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AJ Holmes
5.0 out of 5 stars No one's ever who they say they are.
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2024
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There's a lot going on at La Vie, and I'm not talking about fashion. After reading the first few pages, it didn't take long to discover that a certain someone isn't wrapped too tight, but you're compelled to continue reading to discover just how unhinged that person really is. Great book and great author!
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lindseyleeann
4.0 out of 5 stars Good story
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2019
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It is a good book, but the main character drove me nuts at times. I guess that is the sign of good writing, though. I was questioning myself and my sanity by the end of the book.
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3.0 out of 5 stars The Good, the Bad, and the Unbearable
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2020
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A skillful and devilish writer, this author takes dark humor to a whole new level. Think murder can’t be funny? Think again. But think yet again when the book bogs down with one graphically depicted murder after another, each more grizzly than the last. But after the horror wears off, the thought process of this psychopath and the repetition of her dastardly deeds become rather tedious, if not downright boring. At first I thought this character was going to be like a female Dexter but that didn’t turn out to be the case, and at a certain point, I realized Anya could no longer elicit any positive feelings from me, especially since the laughs had long ago subsided. But that said, Akhtar certainly did create a memorable protagonist, and I’ll be interested to see what her second novel turns out to be – unless it’s a sequel to this one - I’ve seen more than enough of Anya.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Pure escapist happiness and homicide.
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2020
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Anya St. Clair is a mid-level editor at La Vie, a top New York fashion magazine and she is obsessed with her co-worker and beloved fashionista Sarah Taft. She NEEDS to be Sarah’s BFF and she will do whatever is necessary to accomplish that. Whatever. Is. Necessary.

OK, this isn’t the great American novel, but it’s perfect for what it intends to be, a great beach (or quarantine) read filled with frothy fashion, fun bitchiness and a psychotic protagonist whom you actually kind of rooting for? And, underneath are real, tongue in cheek depictions of racism in the fashion industry and the misogyny found in female “frenemy” relationships.

Plus the author loves her dog and totally gets that “what was the point of SVU without Stabler?” 4.5 stars.
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sprag80
5.0 out of 5 stars A Devilishly Fashionable Novel!
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2022
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#Fashion Victim takes the reader on a memorable ride. Part satire, part American Psycho, part Devil Wears Prada, this book zips along at 90 mph from one victim/high fashion event to the next. I love thrillers, horror and Chick lit, and this devilishly great read possessed all three in spades.

For me, this immersive novel contained two horrors: Anya and the Machiavellian World of High fashion.

I would love to see both, again.
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Nathalie Reynolds
2.0 out of 5 stars Badly conjured revenge porn
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2021
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Needlessly vicious and dull at the same time , this book really was pretty awful and I couldn’t finish reading it. It seemed as if the author was imagining a fantasy revenge scenario where she could slay the elites she disdains. Got that. But - it isn’t worth reading on my end.
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The Write Edge
4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of fun! Just don't overthink it
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2018
A woman obsessed with her coworker must compete with her for a promotion. She’ll stop at nothing to reach that higher level, even if that means resorting to murder. Author Amina Akhtar shocks readers and invites them into her bizarre world that hits all the right story elements in her debut novel #FashionVictim.

Anya St. Clair works at La Vie, one of the hottest fashion magazines in New York City. She gets to see the latest trends before the world does and hang out with clothes and accessories designers. For most women with an abiding interest in fashion, this would be a dream job and for Anya it is. Especially since she works alongside Sarah Taft, her fashion icon.

All Anya wants is to be Sarah’s BFF. Besties. The person Sarah turns to in crisis and the first name on Sarah’s list for nights out. Sarah, however, doesn’t seem to get it, no matter how much Anya ingratiates herself to her. It’s almost as if Sarah doesn’t like her or something.

When both of them get tapped to compete for a promotion at work, then, it’s simultaneously the easiest and hardest thing Anya has done. She would do anything for Sarah, and working for her—getting to spend infinite amounts of time with her—would make Anya’s life complete. But Anya isn’t totally blind; she sees how Sarah belittles her. Maybe, she decides, Sarah needs to learn a lesson.

As Anya works out how to make Sarah realize they should be intrinsic parts of one another lives, a variety of other people just keep getting in the way of their friendship. There’s Cassie, the intern; Lisa, Sarah’s current bestie; Diana, the frequent commenter on La Vie’s website who can’t keep her insults of Anya’s articles to herself; even Zhazha, the exotic Russian blogger who Anya brings on board as a contributor.

All of these people and more keep annoying Anya, and she keeps having to take care of them. Murder is hard work but only second to the diet that editor-in-chief Celia insists on for Anya. All in all, none of it seems to be impressing Sarah much, and Anya starts to wonder what other measures she might need to take in order to make Sarah—and the rest of the fashion world—notice her once and for all.

Debut author Amina Akhtar relies, no doubt, on her own training in writing about fashion to build the story world for her first novel. The result is a strange version of a magazine workplace, but that version actually works. With a little bit of patience, readers who are open to a creepy version of The Devil Wears Prada will encounter a joyride that will leave them grinning at the end of the book.

Anya doesn’t try to hide the fact that she’s a psychopath, and Akhtar has capture Anya’s voice with perfection. The sarcasm, the snark, the astute observations of the fashion world, all these traits and more will make readers want to know just what Anya will do next. After a certain point in the book, it becomes easy to believe that Anya truly is capable of absolutely anything. For a change, it’s fun to get deep inside the point of view of this kind of unhinged character.

Readers looking for some moral resolution or a finger-shaking at Anya will be sorely disappointed. Instead, the story should be approached as a brief interlude in the life of someone who is flat-out nuts. It’s never clear whether Anya knows just how far off the deep end she’s dropped, and at some point readers may not even care. Akhtar shares hints of Anya’s past, and while it might have been nice to have had a little more context for Anya’s background at some point the body count gets so high readers will find themselves just trying to keep track of it and nothing else.

For those readers looking for a rollicking ride that doesn’t require thinking about what came before or what happens after the story, I recommend they Bookmark #FashionVictim.
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John V
5.0 out of 5 stars Darkly funny
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2020
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What do you get when American Psycho (the darkly fun movie version) meets Swimming with Sharks meets The Devil Wears Prada? A book with more than a few laugh-out-loud moments that is the definition of unputdownable. When you think Akhtar's Anya can't get any more batshit, she ups the ante in gruesomely comedic fashion. This book was ridiculously entertaining and I'm anxiously awaiting the follow up.
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MissBecka
4.0 out of 5 stars This was a light and giggle filled read that I hope turns into a series 'cause it was mega fun!
Reviewed in Canada on June 16, 2022
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Anya is a young miss just trying to make her way in the fashion world and *bleeps* keep getting in her way.
I thought this would be a Devil Wears Prada sort of book with a hint of mystery.
It is soooooooo much better!!!
Anya is neurotic, paranoid, hilarious and creepy.
So of course I LOVED her!!!!
Though if I'm being honest I would never wanna meet that brand of crazy.
The side characters were interesting and catty (Jack was super adorable!) without stealing the show.
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