Prelude (Get Your Rocks Off) by G. Eilsel

I don't know how I missed this series when it first released but I'm so glad I know about it now!


From the blurb:

Before the stage lights, screaming fans, and aggression of our reunion, we were just two guys, a battered acoustic guitar, a beat-up drum set, and feelings neither of us dared to name.

Eric
Dmitri crashed into my life and became my constant from day one. We do everything together—coffee runs between classes, music theory debates in the quad, and swap late-night playlists when neither of us can sleep. We share everything, but now I’m noticing things I never noticed before, and this new awareness is rocking my entire world.

At first, I told myself it was nothing more than appreciation for my best friend, but the thoughts won’t stop. He’s my first thought in the morning and the last before bed, and he occupies the daydreams in between.

I’m realizing what I’m feeling is more than friendship, and that truth is unraveling everything I thought I knew.

Dmitri
I fell for Eric the night we met at open mic, right before freshman year. One song was all it took, and I was finished. I buried it fast, because he was straight, and I refused to gamble the best friendship I’d ever had. So I stayed his musical other half and called him my best friend. I convinced myself being this close was enough.

It wasn’t.

Lately the air between us has changed. He’s holding my gaze a little longer, letting his hands linger when before they wouldn’t, and everything feels like it’s shifting. Songs feel like openings, lyrics like confessions, and questions hang unspoken in both our eyes.

The lines are blurring fast, and I have to decide whether I’m brave enough to risk everything for the chance that he might feel this too.


This prequel novella to the Get Your Rocks Off series follows the beginnings of Eric and Dmitri’s story when they were younger, sweeter, and far more innocent. This is the story before the band, before the fame, and long before they get a second chance. Prelude is a slow-burn MM friends-to-almost lovers romance packed with bi-awakening, mutual pining, musical soul-bonding, and the bittersweet pull of what might’ve been. This novella is not considered a standalone read. It ends on a cliffhanger and unresolved HEA that isn't achieved until GYRO Book 1: First Verse.


Angel's review:

I never got a chance to read this series when it was first released, so I'm very excited to be able to read the updated & expanded version! Prelude is the beginning of Eric and Dimitri's story, and what a beginning it was! I wasn't expecting the amount of depth the author was able to pack into such a short story but they managed to do so!

I loved the slow burn that developed between the MC's and how their friendship was such an anchorpoint for both of them. Also, the details about all the music was exceptional!!

Seeing as this is just the beginning and how it isn't Eric and Dimitri's whole story, it does end on a cliffhanger. They don't get a HEA in this book but they do get one in the next book, which I'm very excited to read!!!

All in all, a fantastic way to kick off a musically inclined series!

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