Radclyffe

A secretive artist with a haunted past and a young woman escaping a life that has proved to be a lie find their destinies entwined. A fragile melody of love is played between these damaged souls, a song made sweeter and stronger by the day...but will their blossoming romance be destroyed by an outsider's greed or will it succumb to the discord of one woman's tormented heart? A reprint of the classic lesbian high-romance between a deeply secretive musician and the woman who returns the light to her dark days and the melody to her soul.

Love's Melody Lost

Lucia Correa

3 stars for the audible book. 4 Stars for the story minus one star for the narrator.

I first read this classic Radcyffe online years ago. This rating is for the audiobook. The narrator, Paige McKinney is not the worst I've heard but her choices could have been better. She rushes, especially during the in between dialogue or during inner dialogue. It was annoying because a character would be thinking something and then you realize the sentence she just read was said out loud. She needed to take a breath, or change of voice or cadence to delineate spoken dialogue from narrative. I wasn't too thrilled with Anna's high voice. 

But the story was good. Brooding, hermit, wealthy, beautiful, blind musician, Graham Yardley and Anna Reid, a student in landscape architecture. Anna is hired by Graham as a live-in assistant and house manager at the Yardley estate. Yardley Manor with its large grounds near Boston, on the cliffs above the ocean, has a Gothic vibe. Graham was a world class pianist (the best) when she lost her sight in an accident. Anna is recently divorced and is trying to restart her life. Anna decides to clean up and restore the gardens to their former glory. A modern Gothic romance.

Love's Melody Lost

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