Blog Tour: Like A Love Song by Gabriela Martins

Thank you to TBR and Beyond Tours for having me on the blog tour for Like A Love Song by Gabriela Martins! Today is my stop on the tour and you can view the schedule and view the other hosts here. I’m also on the bookstagram tour for this book and you can check out my post here.

There is also a giveaway going along with the blog tour, which you can check out below!

*Disclaimer: This review is based on an advance copy of the book. Some things may differ from the final version

SYNOPSIS

This debut paperback original romance follows a Latina teen pop star whose image takes a diveafter a messy public breakup, until she’s set up with a swoon-worthy fake boyfriend.

Fake boyfriend. Real heartbreak?

Natalie is living her dream: topping the charts and setting records as a Brazilian pop star…until she’s dumped spectacularly on live television. Not only is it humiliating—it could end her career.

Her PR team’s desperate plan? A gorgeous yet oh-so-fake boyfriend. Nati reluctantly agrees, but William is not what she expected. She was hoping for a fierce bad boy—not a soft-hearted British indie film star. While she fights her way back to the top with a sweet and surprisingly swoon-worthy boy on her arm, she starts to fall for William—and realizes that maybe she’s the biggest fake of the mall. Can she reclaim her voice and her heart?

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DETAILS

TITLE: Like a Love Song
AUTHOR: Gabriela Martins
PUBLISHER: Underlined/Delacorte Press
COVER DESIGNER: Casey Moses
COVER ILLUSTRATOR: Erick Dávila
PUBLICATION DATE: August 3, 2021

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

GABRIELA MARTINS is a Brazilian kidlit author and linguist. Her stories feature Brazilian characters finding themselves and love. She was a high school teacher and has also worked as a TED Ed-Club facilitator, where she helped teens develop their own talks in TED format to present. She edited and self-published a pro-bono LGBTQ+ anthology (KEEP FAITH) with all funds going to queer people in need. When she’s not writing, she can be found cuddling with her two cats, or singing loudly and off-key.

AUTHOR LINKS:

Website: https://www.gabrielawrites.com/
Goodreads: Gabriela Martins
Twitter: gabhimartins
Instagram: gabhi

REVIEW

my rating: 5⭐

To put it simply, I’m a sucker for any kind of book that has fake dating. It’s one of my favorite tropes of all time and when I started reading Like a Love Song, I knew I would love it. And I was right. This book far surpassed my expectations and I just fell in love.

The story starts like this. 17 year old pop star Natalie suffers a humiliating, public break up that goes viral. To help mitigate the fall out and get her career back on track, her PR team decides to set her up in a fake relationship. Natalie expects that she’ll be fake dating a fierce bad boy, but instead finds out that her boyfriend is with a British indie film star, William.

This book has the vibes of a classic rom-com and I was grinning the entire time I was reading it. It was so utterly fluffy and cute and adorable and fun; this book made me so incredibly happy. Seriously, I was squealing so much while I was reading this.

There were literally so many scenes that made me react like the gif above 🤭. I would have also liked to see more of Natalie’s friends, Brenda and Padma, but at the same time, I also enjoyed how the story focused mainly on Natalie and William and didn’t have any unnecessary subplots. And I loved, I absolutely loved the casual queer representation in this book. More of this in other books please!

Natalie’s struggle with fame and social media and being a BIPOC woman in the spotlight felt so utterly realistic and there were many moments throughout the book that I wanted to give her a massive hug. And same goes for William; I loved how intensely caring he was about his family and how he did what he did for them.

I’m going to be singing praises of Gabriela Martins’ writing for days. Literally, this book is perfection and I’m pretty sure that it will end up becoming a comfort read for me. I know for sure that I’ll be revisiting it soon.

GIVEAWAY (US ONLY)

One winner will receive a finished copy of Like a Love Song. The giveaway starts on August 2nd, 2021 and ends on August 9th, 2021

Enter the giveaway here!