The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Before I start my unnecessary rant, I want to say that this book wasn't terrible, and the author has a unique story here. It just wasn't what I was expecting in a historical fiction.

This book was a little frustrating to me. I absolutely love music, especially the music scene during 50s-70s, as it's a benchmark of my taste today, but this book left me unsatisfied with an almost flawless main character that is a short-lived rewrite of music legends of the past.

Frankie Presto is a very lucky man who meets some of the greatest musicians on every other chapter. The story imitates a tour of music of the past that you might find at Universal Studios, which can be great for a lot of people. Not much me, even though I love Universal, just not in book form.

Frankie became uninteresting to me halfway through the story. Not much of a spoiler, but there is a pivotal moment for me where the love interest's sister makes a point how she's never seen anyone more in love with each other than Frankie and her sister, even more so than herself and her husband of 40+ years... I just can't imagine my own sister-in-law saying she doesn't love her husband as much as me and my wife. I started questioning my thoughts of the story at this point.

What is pretty cool about this story is that the author also narrated the audiobook and he's actually pretty good at it too.

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Audio read by: Mitch Albom and a full cast