Well, damn you Rebecca Denton. I wanted a nice easy read that I could forget about but nooooooo. Rebecca Denton had to write a book that a) made me want to be the main character and b) is part of a series so now I have to read the rest. I repeat, damn you Rebecca Denton (shakes fist).

The story follows Amelie who has dreams of being a musician and whilst she has opportunity to receive support from family, she wants to do it by herself. When she meets mega pop star Max from The Keep her world turns upside down.

This is like the dream. Make this real life and change the name to Lisa and the band to Busted and this is all younger me wanted…and it is for this reason I need to read the full series.

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This was such a sweet and heartfelt YA story all about love, growing up and music. I enjoyed the book and the characters and thought it was a fun read. If you like behind the scenes looks at the music industry and pop culture and what really goes on then I think you would really enjoy this one!

Amelie doesn't like boybands. She'd rather be listening to her diverse collection of original vinyl. However, because of her dad's job in the music industry, she finds herself surrounded by the biggest pop band of the moment 'The Keep'.

This is a book I'd been really looking forward to, and it was a quick YA read. The plot wasn't complex, but didn't need to be as it was still very readable.

My main issue was that I didn't always like Amelie and her ways. Yes, she is a teenager, but she came across as a bit brattish at times. However, I really liked the character Maxx and his motivations and story were very believable.

I'd have loved this book in my teens and I'm sure many fangirls will be hooked by this story of romance, the music industry and being true to yourself.

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As someone who has kept an eye on boyband lit in YA fiction, I’d hoped this book would be an admirable addition to a sub-genre which is often fun, engaging and appealing to modern audiences. Unfortunately, I was left disappointed by a book which wastes its potential and, worse still, trivialises a style which has been so cleverly adapted in contemporaries like Sophia Bennett’s brilliant Love Song.

Teenage songwriter Amelie Ayers, visiting her sound producer father, finds herself backstage at the gig of one of the biggest boybands in the world – the only problem is, she has zero interest in the peppy pop and flashy outfits that have made them famous. She’s surprised by what it’s like to meet the boys behind the band, but when one of them snaps a selfie with her, the rumour mill goes into overdrive. Caught up in the world of the band whether she likes it or not, Amelie must navigate jealousy, paparazzi, hints of romance and her own stage fright if she’s to find where she truly wants, or needs, to be. Unfortunately, the most interesting elements of this plot – the pressures of the fame, behind-the-scenes figures, possibilities for complex characterisation – are lost in a soup of bad dialogue, flat characters, and poor prose.

There is far better writing out there in YA than appears in this book. This Beats Perfect is patronising, vapid and full of the pseudo-dialogue that would half make you think the author had never actually heard a real teenager speak. It underestimates and undervalues its intended readership, insulting their intelligence and inadvertently making a mockery of the passion which is poured into fandom and music. The interest in music that’s supposed to make Amelie stand out quickly reveals itself to be music snobbery of the worst kind, transplanted onto a protagonist presented as knowing and somehow superior to other girls (and you know how much I dislike the ‘I’m not like other girls’ trope) but who is ultimately incredibly immature, particularly considering she and her friends are supposed to be sixteen. I liked Amelie’s interest in music production and there was potential in her relationship with her father, but Denton does a disservice to real teenagers in her stilted characterisation and in not being able to make her mind up about what the book is trying to say, or indeed in not having it say anything really meaningful at all.

I wanted to like this one, but This Beats Perfect wastes its potential and fails to deliver the intelligent and complex depictions of fandom, passion and music teenage readers deserve. Sophia Bennett’s Love Song and Jenny McLachlan’s Flirty Dancing are more enjoyable alternatives.

Rebecca Denton’s debut is officially my favourite book of 2017 so far! I completely loved it.

I’m not a pop fangirl by any means, I still love the boybands of my childhood but I was never as intensely in love with them as teens are today, but I can never resist a bit of #boybandlit. The angst, the sweet romance, the whole dream come true of a boyband member falling head over heels for you. It’s glorious.

I was totally swept away by the magic of This Beasts perfect. There’s a particular feeling that really good contemporary gives you - a mix of giddy happiness, stomach butterflies and total sweetness that I’ve never found with any other genre. This Beats Perfect totally nailed it for me for the first time in a really long while.

I really, really hope This Beats Perfect is the start of a series and I want more.

A fun, easy read. Different to the other boy-band lit books out there at the moment and very much a book about a girl who wants to make it on her own two feet (with a side dose of a gorgeous pop star). I loved it and devoured this book in one sitting!

This book is for every boy band obsessed bookworm!

This Beats Perfect was devoured within 24 hour. It is for every boyband obsessed bookworm who wouldn't mind gaining an extra fictional crush!

This book features lots of English banter and lots of Britishness in general.It features some amazing characters such as Amelie's best friend Masie who was probably my favourite character.I also loved Geoff.

This is a lovely debut novel with an incredibly hot guy!! I would definitely reccommend this book.

Amelie lives with her hippy mum in a flat in London but is in close contact with her dad who is a sound engineer. She loves music and has very cool taste so she is surprised to find herself enjoying being backstage at a well known boy band's gig. She is a singer herself and after several misunderstandings and a social media storm she eventually becomes friends with one of the band members. More muddles happen but all ends happily, when she gets an important gig and her boy! I really enjoyed this tale of first love, the author perfectly captures the awkwardness and self doubt that can plague young people and her in depth knowledge of the music business really shows. I really wish I was musical lol, this book made me want to be able to play the guitar like the cool kids!