I would like to share my YA novel The X Factor: Confessions of a Naïve Fashion Model with reviewers who are interested in taking a dip into Slovenian literature.
The X Factor is a psychological YA novel showing the glamorous fashion world behind its less glamorous scenes.
A short introduction to the novel: It takes three mistakes to be swallowed up and spat out by the fashion industry. You trust the wrong people. You think you know everything there is to know about life. You take drugs.
The almost 18-year-old Maja is a regular high-school kid, who at the threshold of adulthood thinks she knows everything there is to know about life. As she enters the world of fashion modelling she gets completely enchanted.
However, the more her career thrives she’s less able to see the danger lurking around fashion industry. Maja starts falling in a downward spiral of drug addiction and is torn between the tempting dream of becoming a world famous model and the horrendous thought of destroying her body beyond the point of no salvation.
After a violent event Maja realizes her naivety had almost cost her her life. Only a shade of her former self, in a gray space between life and death, she realises the fashion industry sucked everything out of her – except one thing – the will to live.
Maja wants to be her old self again. Ironically, it means losing the only thing that made her special. She has to give up on her hidden X Factor.
Kindly invited to send me an e-mail. I am able to provide an e-copy of my novel in return for a short review. Thank you!
Ivan Sivec, Slovenian writer, poet and publicist ivan.sivec.en@gmail.com
The X Factor
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The X Factor is a psychological YA novel showing the glamorous fashion world behind its less glamorous scenes.
A short introduction to the novel:
It takes three mistakes to be swallowed up and spat out by the fashion industry.
You trust the wrong people. You think you know everything there is to know about life. You take drugs.
The almost 18-year-old Maja is a regular high-school kid, who at the threshold of adulthood thinks she knows everything there is to know about life. As she enters the world of fashion modelling she gets completely enchanted.
However, the more her career thrives she’s less able to see the danger lurking around fashion industry. Maja starts falling in a downward spiral of drug addiction and is torn between the tempting dream of becoming a world famous model and the horrendous thought of destroying her body beyond the point of no salvation.
After a violent event Maja realizes her naivety had almost cost her her life. Only a shade of her former self, in a gray space between life and death, she realises the fashion industry sucked everything out of her – except one thing – the will to live.
Maja wants to be her old self again. Ironically, it means losing the only thing that made her special. She has to give up on her hidden X Factor.
Kindly invited to send me an e-mail. I am able to provide an e-copy of my novel in return for a short review. Thank you!
Ivan Sivec, Slovenian writer, poet and publicist
ivan.sivec.en@gmail.com