Prelude to Love

Prelude to love is sweet enjoyable book to kill a few hours. It is a story of family and friend.
Andrew McFerrin did a good job narrating and had a distinct voice for each character.
If your looking for a sweet story, lots of feels, and a great Hea romance this is for you.

Reviews by the Wicked Reads Review Team

Sarah – ☆☆☆
This is the story of a slow, simple romance between two very ordinary men. Joel is a music teacher. Marcus is a landscape gardener. The story focuses on the lead up to an important high school concert that Joel is organising.

This is gentle romance and I found the mundane domesticity of the story pretty tedious at times. There isn’t really any excitement at all. It’s a low-heat romance with a cute cat and a cute kid at the centre of it. Even Joel’s family estrangement resolves easily and doesn’t cause too much angst.

Personally, I was bored. I found both Joel and Marcus pretty bland and I really wasn’t terribly interested in their lives. For me, fiction always needs to be more exciting than real life and this just wasn’t enough to keep my interest.

Reviewers received a free copy of this book to read and review for Wicked Reads.

This story isn't just a story of two men finding each other and falling in love. It is also the story of what makes for family. It is also the healing that you can bring to another as you deal with your past.

Reviewed by Racheal for Diverse Reader

Joel loves being a teacher! Even on those days when parents make their kids take lessons even though he knows it's not something they want to do, and he must remind himself to have patience just to get through some of his private classes. His love life; now that is a whole another matter. Since breaking off with his boyfriend Reed five years prior, he really hasn't found anyone to fill that void in his life. Not that it stops his best friends Darin and Ella from trying to persuade him into finding that someone special.

Marcus is moving in with his sister, Ella, after what appears to be a mutual break up from his boyfriend, Garth, just six months prior. He is looking to start up his business in Wellington. He needs a fresh start in a place where he isn't reminded of his ex. Little does Marcus know that Ella, Darin, and even his fourteen-year-old niece, Isabel, have a game plan already set in motion for him.

Bringing together Marcus and Joel is like bringing beautiful music together. Even though some notes may not seem to fit once you hear them together it's like the best melody ever. The two balance each other out whereas their other partners couldn't.


However, with a lack of communication, could these two miss out on the best harmony created for these two emotionally seeking souls?