This Beats Perfect, by Rebecca Denton

The ambitions of aspiring singer-songwriter Amelie are crippled by stagefright. Talented musician Max is trapped in declining boy band The Keep. They meet through Amelie’s sound engineer Dad and the stage is set for a musical partnership that could become much more. This rather standard teen romance has an interesting take on the modern music world, with manufactured sounds up against ‘truth’. The author clearly knows her stuff musically, but a decent edit would have remedied some of the jarring technical errors. All in all it is a fun story that moves along at a cracking pace and leaves the reader wanting to know what happens next.