The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Everyone joins a band in life. 3.75 stars .

For the first ~150 pages it was a 4.5 stars for me. The plot was so perfectly laid out and interwoven. It was clear that the author did not write a single word until the outline of his story was complete and no guess work was done. The only issue I had was the cheesy narration which is fine, I can easily get over.

But this book was long and the more it dragged out, the more flimsy the plotline was and the more it relied on weird coincidences and random people doing things for the main character who basically floated through life.

The romantic trope was yuck in a lot of places, too.