Thank you to the author, Netgalley and of course the publisher, Simon & Schuster, for this chance to be on the blog tour for Love Songs for Sceptics, the utterly fabulous debut from Christina Peshiris. You can buy your copy here, and click here for my review!
The Blurb
"My brother’s getting married in a few weeks and asked for help picking a song for his first dance. I suggested Kiss’s ‘Love’s a Slap in the Face’.
It didn’t go down well."
When she was a teenager, Zoë Frixos fell in love with Simon Baxter, her best friend and the boy next door. But his family moved to America before she could tell him how she felt and, like a scratched record, she’s never quite moved on. Now, almost twenty years later, Simon is heading back to London, newly single and as charming as ever . . .
But as obstacles continue to get in her way – Simon’s perfect ex-girlfriend, her brother’s big(ish) fat(ish) Greek wedding, and an obnoxious publicist determined to run Zoë – Zoë begins to wonder whether, after all these years, she and Simon just aren’t meant to be.
What if, despite what all the songs and movies say, you're first love isn't always all it's cracked up to be? What if, instead Zoë and Simon are forever destined to shuffle around their feelings for each other, never quite getting the steps right . . .
With a smart, relatable central character and razor-sharp wit, Love Songs for Sceptics is perfect for fans of Mhairi McFarlane, Lucy Vine and Lindsey Kelk.
Vikbat's Love Song for Sceptics...
Sometimes soppy love songs just don't cut it.
Sometimes you want to listen to something that reflects real life a bit more, something, you know, that isn't sugary sweet (it's bad for diabetics and teeth).
Something that hits a nerve.
So when asked by those lovely people at Simon & Schuster to come up with my own Love Song for Sceptics, I wracked my brains. I went all through the lyrics by my beloved band Muse, but even Matt Bellamy has fallen in love and got married now (not to me though... silly boy!). Nothing really stood out as being suitable for this.
Until I was listening to Guns N' Roses on Spotify... and the perfect song came on, and I literally punched the air with glee. I don't know why I hadn't thought of it before - although it is definitely a blast from the past. It's an absolutely glorious song, celebrating the end of a relationship, describing what I would imagine a great many people have dreamed of doing to their exes...
The song was released as a B-side way back in 1988, and is on the album G N' R Lies. I know it's not exactly PC, but I believe it was written as a joke, not with any malicious intent behind it. That's how I have always taken it, just one of those songs, with the 'Her' being interchangeable with 'Him'.
The song is a lovely, country-style rock song and it's so damn catchy! It's called 'I Used to Love Her', and basically, Axl goes on about how he used to love her, but he had to kill her, she's six feet under, and now she's buried in his back yard.
I love it.
If anything ever happens to my husband, this blog post never happened!
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