Tweet Cute is a well-written, adorable YA book. I've seen the comparisons to a YA modern "You've Got Mail" and I agree. Instead of email or IM, these teens are using Twitter. One of the things I liked the most was when one realized who the other was, it wasn't kept a big secret. It got out and they had to figure out how to deal with it. Their parents were involved (so often in YA books, especially romances, the parents are MIA). It dealt with many issues that teens face as they navigate high school, but was done in a very cute way. There was little-to-no swearing and it was very PG.

Overall, I enjoyed this book and would recommend it for those looking for a cute YA. Although, beware, it will make you hungry: so much talk of yummy desserts and grilled cheese!

If you’re a fan of rom-coms, you are going to want to read Emma Lord’s Tweet Cute right away! This books is freakin’ adorable, and I instantly fell in love with Pepper and Jack. Their banter is so delightful, and I loved how the Twitter war unfolded and how the two grew closer through it. This book also touches on family expectations and high school burnout, which is a very relevant experience. Plus, it was so fun reading about all of Pepper’s delicious desserts—now I want to bake all of her creations.

The idea for this book was really clever and the writing style reminded me of Sarah Dessen. I found that the book had some interesting twists and turns and all the characters were likeable. It was an easy read and one that many would enjoy. It was also great to see a book themed around food and I wish that some of the recipes were included within the pages of the book, so I could recreate them in my kitchen.

Ok, first and foremost, I adore this book! It is so much fun and I just absolutely loved the characters and their story!

Pepper feels so much pressure to be the best at school, to help the family business, to not disappoint her mom, and to fit in in New York. She is unsure and feels alone most of the time, but she is also very strong and witty. She has no idea what she wants to do with her life, she just knows she's exhausted and wants to sleep.

Jack feels pressure as well, to live up to his popular identical twin Ethan and to take over the family business. He loves his family so much and would do anything for them, but he feels alone and invisible, hiding his true desires to do what is expected of him.

Together, Jack and Pepper are amazing! The reluctantly become friends, and use that to their advantage while trying to help both of their families. But as things progress, they feel like they have to choose between their dreams, their families and their relationship with each other. As will most stories of this kind, there are rivalries, misunderstandings, and a whole lot of hurt feelings along the way.

I loved almost all of the supporting characters as well. Each character contributes to the growth of both Jack and Pepper as they navigate their Twitter war, school, and everything else. The one character that I really didn't like overall was Pepper's mom. She essentially used Pepper for her own purposes and refused to listen when she tried to tell her she was overwhelmed. Even when everything is revealed at the end, I still didn't sympathize with mom at all.

When you add amazing bakery delights, grilled cheese, macaroni & cheese, cupcakes, and secret penpals in the mix, and I was hooked. And seriously, I need to get my hands on some Monster Cake stat!

Disclaimer: I received an eARC of this book through Net Galley and the publisher {St. Martin's Press} in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. I think that it is a fantastic contemporary book and definitely something that I would recommend for young teens. I struggled with the writing at the beginning which caused me to put the book down for a while. The pace of the writing and the plot was quite slow in the beginning but once I got past that first couple of pages, the book flew by. The romance was cute and often had me smiling and swooning. The characters, beyond the main characters, were a bit flat but the main characters really took to centre stage in this book. I loved how different they were and how their experiences shaped them. If you are looking for a cute modern YA contemporary then this is the book you need to read. Thank you so much to Wednesday Books for providing me with a copy of this book!

I really loved this one! It had been quite a while since I had read a true YA novel and this was a perfect one with which to jump back into the genre.

It is kind of a retelling of You’ve Got Mail, but a modern YA version. The author does a great job making it its own unique story. It doesn’t feel like a copycat version and there are some twists and turns that kept me on my toes.

Pepper and Jack are such great characters and I loved seeing their friendship evolve and grow. There’s a lot that goes on and several subplots, but I didn’t find it difficult to follow. I really like how multilayered the story is.

This is a pretty great example of the kind of YA books I love. I can’t wait to read more from Emma Lord!

Gave this one a bash, but it wasn't quite my cup of tea! Many thanks to the publisher for sending me a copy of this book.

This book was absolutely incredible. It keep me entertained and intrigued from front to back, and I loved getting know both Pepper and Jack rather well. As a social media specialist myself, I found the social ties and lingo super fun!

Overall though, Lord’s writing is witty, engaging, timely and balances romance with comedy. While I’m not typically one for a YA novel, this didn’t even feel like it to me in the best way possible. Highly recommend everyone pick it up! I imagine it’d make an especially great beach or vacation read.

Rating: 4/5

Thanks NetGalley for the digital copy in
exchange for an honest review.

Pepper helps to manage her parents' restaurant twitter account, then this restaurant is accused by another twitter account from copying one of their traditional recipes and the person behind this - Jack - is one of her classmates whom she cannot stand.

I've always liked this kind of book with this Romeo And Juliet vibe, the rivalry between the families and all that, so the moment I read the synopsis, I've been dying to read it and I'm glad to say it did not disappoint me.

It was my first contact with the author - since it's her debut novel - and I really liked her humor. It's not the kind of book that made me laugh out loud, because it's a subtle kind of humor - which I prefer - so I was constantly grinning throughout the read because of some sarcastic comment or a funny pun.

Pepper and Jack's relationship is very cute and a joy to see coming to life. They have this hate to love you kind of relationship - which is my absolute favorite - so we have lots of funny arguments and dialogs. Also they have to face the problems their families have with each other, so there's also this forbidden love trope which - surprise, surprise - I also love!

There are also dilemmas they have to deal with such as going off to college, their future, and family issues.

It's a fun, light and cute read that has some clichés like most romance books. The writing is very smooth and easy to read. Plus, it's a very current book and with a lot of technology and pop culture references.

Toothachingly sweet!

That’s how I would describe Tweet Cute. This book is troupe heaven! Just think an updated version of You’ve Got Mail –rivals falling in love with each other – with a tinge of some Gossip Girl vibe on the side mixed with some overachiever and class clown pairing. It’s as soft and fluffy as you expect it to be!

But more than the obvious (and totes adorbs!!!) romantic plot, Tweet Cute packs more, tackling familial pressure, self-discovery, and charting your own course all while serving up some snarky, sassy banter and Twitter gold punny moments.

The story follows Pepper and Jack. Heiress and heir to their family’s respective food businesses, the two had to balance academics and extra-curriculars – not to mention college applications and interviews – wading through the competitive air of their swanky Upper East Side prep school with helping out their parents run their businesses’ social media accounts.

The summary pretty much covers the highlights of this book, but what it doesn’t mention is just how wonderfully Pepper and Jack’s (#TeamPepperjack! Get it? Pepperjack?!?) story unfold. These two characters’ relationship is easily my favorite thing about Tweet Cute. Their sniping and snapping on Twitter, fighting over who has the right to the pool for swim/dive practice, their exchanges on Weazel, and all of the little twists and turns they both take were what made this story so fun to read. They seemed so different at first, but as the story progressed, their similarities surfaced. Their high involvement with their families and their respective businesses was a common ground: Pepper, caught in between her mother and sister’s fight, pressured into handling Big League Burger’s Twitter account by her mom, and still expected to bring home straight A’s; Jack, feeling secondary to his twin, expected to take over his family’s deli, his parents – especially his father – oblivious to the fact that it’s not what he wants.

You just couldn’t help but feel for these two darlings, and I think a great part of that is because of Emma Lord’s solid work on these her characters. She built Pepper and Jack’s story layer after layer letting them grow as they face and solve the conflicts laid out on their path. Lord’s easy and flowing writing style, her expert handling of all the social media bits incorporated into this story (god, gimme all the memes!) also adds color to this already fun read.

I enjoyed this book so very much. It came at the right time when I needed and wanted something light and happy. Tweet Cute was fluffy and romantic and cheesy – everything I could ever as of from a rom-com. Dare I say, this is going to be among my favorite books of this year. Just, maybe, some warning before you go into this story: have food and drinks on hand because you’ll get hungry reading this (grilled cheese sandwiches, anyone?)

Tweet Cute is the cutest, sweetest YA romance ever!
Pepper moved from Nashville to New York City a few years ago, she struggled to adjust to her elite new school while her family was falling apart but she’s an overachiever so she’s now top of her class and swim team captain. She doesn’t have much time for other stuff besides baking and running her family’s fast-food chain, Big League Burger, social media account.
Jack has a very, very popular twin and he’s very tired of constantly being in Ethan’s shadow. They’re identical twins but they have very different personalities. Jack likes to play around with apps, he’s a really funny, good guy, works for his family’s deli and runs the deli’s social media account.
Both Pepper and Jack have inner struggles like any typical teen and I really liked how the story explored their feelings, their expectations, the pressure they were putting in their own shoulders and what they thought their parents expected and demanded from them. Both of them were amazing characters! I’m probably being vague but honestly I don’t want to spoil much about this story.
I absolutely loved the Twitter feud, I laughed so much during some of the tweets and I loved Jack and Pepper’s antics trying to gain the upper hand. I fell in love with Pepper and Jack and I was very invested in their relationship.
Overall, Tweet Cute was funny, sassy, witty, sweet and emotional. I adored it and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys lighthearted YA contemporary.

When I started this book I had no intention of staying up until 4:00 a.m. to finish it, but I was having such a good time that I didn't want to stop! The dialog flew along at 100 miles an hour, and was a delight to get swept up in. Even though the story ostensibly follows a Romeo and Juliet storyline, it definitely had a great deal of Beatrice and Benedict in it as well. One of the things I liked was that even as the characters fell deeper and deeper into the Twitter war they accidentally started, this was also balanced by Pepper and Jack's very real concerns as teens trying to navigate family expectations, the pressures of college decisions and keeping up with school and home commitments. This book also made me fervently wish that I lived in the same universe as Monster Cake. It is a read that will keep you up at night in the best possible way.

I was expecting this to be freaking adorable but alas, it was not at all. The first 75% of the book was a bore and it took me forever to really get into the story. However, the last quarter was redeemed itself. Unfortunately it wasn't enough to make the book amazing for me.

This book tweet cute was something different I ever read and I enjoyrd it in some parts but overall it was good book. The storyline was good but they were some parts where I was skimming because I feel like the parts in the book was very unnecessary

I requested this book via NetGalley because the blurb sounded like it would be a pretty cute read.

Pepper and Jack go to the same high school, but they're not friends. By chance, they get stuck working together because of her spot on the swim team and his on the dive team. They also get embroiled into a Twitter war, their family-owned restaurants duking it out via social media. As the war heats up, so do things between Pepper and Jack. Can they push aside their competing businesses and build something between them?

I really enjoyed this book. On the surface, it sounds like it's just a YA romantic comedy, but it's more than that. Yes, it has those elements carrying it through, and that is the main plot, but under the surface are family struggles, college decisions, and two teenagers just trying to figure their lives out. Emma Lord did a great job of balancing humor, a developing relationship, family, and identity struggles. I definitely recommend this book, and I'd read anything else Emma Lord wants to write!

"You know, for someone named Pepper, you're pretty salty about losing."

Instead of being called Tweet Cute, this book should be called Tweet CUTE because I just want to pinch this book's chubby cheeks for all of eternity. Tweet Cute has two main cute-tagonists: you've got Jack, who is part of a family business (a local Deli called Girl Cheesing), class clown, member of the dive team, and creator of an app called Weazel where students at his school are assigned animal characters to disguise their identities as they chat with fellow cohorts. Then you've got Pepper, an overachiever, swim team captain, Weazel user, and daughter to the founder of a wildly successful burger chain called Big League Burger. IRL, these two already know they're frenemies - with the class clown vs. overachiever and the dive team vs. swim team dynamic, it's to be expected. But when Big League Burger appears to steal Girl Cheesing's secret grilled cheese sammy recipe, they also (unknowingly) start to engage in a BLB vs. Girl Cheesing Twitter feud - since it's totally normal for both of their parents to put teenagers in charge of their corporate Twitter accounts. And in a twist no one saw coming, they start to fall for each other via the Weazel app too - without knowing the identity of who it is they're each chatting and flirting with. I don't remember 'zactly what the plot is of the 1998 rom-com movie You've Got Mail, but from what I do remember, Tweet Cute is essentially a reboot for a YA audience.

A few things about this book seem wildly implausible, but I didn't let it bug me too much because books like this usually tend to have plot holes and stretch-your-imagination aspects that the reader simply needs to overlook, amiright? I already mentioned the fact that you've got a couple of kiddos running corporate Twitter accounts, which is explained by one parent not being tech savvy enough to understand social media and one parent thinking her daughter is just a super good Tweeter so she wanted to put her in charge of the corporate account. Ohhhhkay. Then you've got the fact that (somehow) no one knows that Pepper's parents are the founders of Big League Burger, even though she's been attending the same school for several years. Wouldn't you (and everyone and everyone's mothers) know it if you went to school with, say, the kid of the founder of Chipotle? And with Weazel - if this app usually outs your true identity to the peeps you're chatting with within a few weeks, wouldn't everyone at the school know everyone else's aliases almost immediately? It doesn't seem plausible that Jack and Pepper wouldn't be able to suss out the other's true identity earlier in the book.

But nitpicking aside, this is a well written YA romance full of snark, foodstuffs, realistic and likable characters, drama, fluff, and fun.

"There you have it, folks. A fitting end to the cheesiest romance ever told, and a love we can all brie-lieve in."

Aw, adorable romance through social media. A little bit of strained incredulity that these two teenagers are allowed that much power in managing the social media for their family business but nice overall plot and connections and romance.

Cute! But I’m not the right audience- it was a little too juvenile for me. I won’t be posting a review this time. Thanks, anyway.

This book was absolutely wonderful and enjoyable to read. It's perfect for fans of You've Got Mail, Well Met, and Sandhya Menon. The characters are fleshed out, the banter is top notch, and the alternating perspective gives the reader the delightful feeling of seeing how awfully wrong situations are about to go. And the food descriptions! As a self=proclaimed foodie, I was salivating during most of this book. I wish more recipes were available, other than Monster Cake. By the end of this book, I was whipping up brownie/cookie concoctions and planning a trip to NYC to investigate small bakeries and delis.

Tweet Cute was sweet as, well, Monster Cake. If you know, you know!

Absolutely loved this YA debut. Pepper and Jack are smart, self-effacing, kind, and completely adorable. Hate to love is one of my favorite tropes. This fell in that category but in a complex way, deftly weaving in high school culture and social media.