I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Such a cute YA Rom Com

Pepper and Jack have families that run competing businesses which causes a Twitter war to ensue. What started out as working together on a fundraiser for swim team has turned into a friendship and maybe more between Jack and Pepper.

This book takes a look at relationships between friends and family throughout all kinds of situations.

Great read, super fun characters

Clever and cute contemporary romance invovling rivalry restaurants/families.


I really like Pepper and Jack. They both seemed very real and vulnerable. Jack's constant feelings of being less than his twin brother felt authentic, making me like him. Pepper's family has fallen apart, her mother in particular was very hard to deal with as she is so centered on her growing business and ignoring the damage she is doing to her youngest daughter. Together, they seemed to create a safe space where they could be themselves, both in real life and online through an app that Jack secretly created.


There's lot of different ways these two characters are communicating, through those I mentioned and also through their companies Twitter accounts where they are creating a huge publicity fight.


Some of the things that happen made me really sad for Pepper (her relationship ith her mother for instance) and I loved the warmth of Jack's family and his relationship with his grandmother.


The story is charming and light and moves very fast between Pepper and Jack's perspectives. When everything finally is resolved at the end, I felt a little disappointed. I don't want to say what the reason for the rivalry was, but I was hoping for a little bit more. Also, I'm totally disappointed in the adults in this book. They act more like teenagers than the teenagers themselves.

Overall, Tweet Cute is adorable and a fun read for anyone looking for some romance with a little bite.

Tweet Cute is the gen-z approach to a classic rom-com. It has all the tropes of something like You’ve Got Mail, the vibe of something like When Harry Met Sally, but with a modern and teenage twist. Technology and social media enhance the story, and create new stakes for the characters.

I immediately connected to our protagonists Jack and Pepper. They’re both very sympathetic and relatable. They embody, in different ways, that universal teenage experience of feeling left out. Jack struggles with feeling overshadowed by his more popular, more charismatic twin; and Pepper with her Mother’s plan for her future. Both struggle with the pressure and expectations of going in to a family business. I think it’s notable that it’s the interests that they choose to pursue outside of their family’s businesses — Jack creating the Weazel app, and Pepper’s baking — that are the things that help bring them together.

It really uses the irresistible appeal of good dramatic irony to it’s advantage. The audience gets to see Jack and Pepper interact in three different forms with no idea they’re talking to the same person every time: at school, on the anonymous Weazel app, and over their family’s business twitter accounts.

Tweet Cute also expertly encompasses the feelings of being in your last year of high school: the fear of an unknown future, the pressure of what others want for you, and figuring out what you want for yourself. Theres a sense of these characters no longer feeling like children, but not quite feeling like adults yet, and not knowing what to do about it.

I’d recommend this delightful YA debut to anyone that wants a lovely fluffy rom-com to escape in to, especially if you’re into character driven, almost fan-fic-esque, stories. A delight from start to end.

The premise for this book peaked my interest and I wasn’t disappointed. It was a very modern take on meeting someone which I enjoyed reading about. I liked the relationship between Pepper and Jack and it was a well paced story.

Who enjoys rom-coms with the feel of a younger version of the classic---You’ve Got Mail??? *hands in the air & jumping up and down* I took a break (happily) from the heavy mysteries and thrillers, to dive right into one of my favorite genres---YA!! Of course, I was interested, right off the bat!!! I saw Pepper (think---young Meg Ryan) as the beautiful, cheery, yet ambitious & driven teen girl. I felt it was more beyond her appearance than most everyone sees. Thus enter Jack, who is the complete and total opposite of Pepper---But...and this is where the story starts to take off for me! I won’t spoil the story for you; just know that you will enjoy revisiting #AlltheFeels of being a teen (at least I did)! I rated this book a 4 out of 5 stars. I mean, it is a ROM-COM and I get a literary high off that S*%&!!! Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC, in return for my honest review.

Fantastic! This YA book was funny, unique, and so charming. I fell in love with the characters and loved the NYC setting.

Adorable teen romance. You've Got Mail enters the social media/smart phone age. Recommended for high schools and also middle schools (especially those with a demand for romance like Jenny Han or Sarah Dessen).

A cute rom-com with surprising depths, a really nice balance of humor and serious subjects. I really connected to Pepper and Jack and their struggles to figure out who they were as individuals and as part of their complicated families. I've been booktalking this title and I had to order extra copies for my library!

I laughed. I cried. I swooned with joy. The characters were sweet and relatable even despite my considerable age difference from them. Pick this up ASAP!!

Tweet cute is a really sweet young adult romance. I enjoyed the twitter war aspect of the story. I wasn't a huge fan of the conflicts in the story and how they were resolved. I recommend this book to lovers of young adult romance.

Tweet Cute is ACTUALLY the present day, YA version of You’ve Got Mail. We have a big corporation vs a small company and the 2 rivals are unknowingly forming a connection behind anonymous screen names. Sure, it’s restaurants instead of bookstores and they’re using an anonymous app instead aol emails but the similarities are definitely there. And you know what, I loved every minute of it!

I love how this book is so current but also timeless. Sure, Twitter feuds will probably go away in favor of a new app but there will always be kids trying to fit in and find their way. There were will be always teenagers discovering what their own path looks like vs what their parents want for them.

This book was cute and lots of fun but it also had food. SO MUCH food. I want the grilled cheese and the monster cake and the blondies. I want it all. Luckily Emma Lord is awesome and posted the monster cake on her website. I think I want to be her best friend.

Every year I promise myself to read more YA, and every year I fall in love with so many great stories. Tweet Cute by Emma Lord went above and beyond my expectations. It is described as a modern-day twist on “You’ve Got Mail,” and I could not agree more. It was clever, fun, and captured the essence of modern teen struggles.

Tweet Cute had so many great subplots to further engulf into the main plot. I was impressed by how each working piece fits the bigger picture. The use of Twitter was fresh and fun. The author took a snapshot of what is relevant today and ran with it to make her Characters. Their witty comebacks both on and off-screen had me smiling and giddy as I watched this young love play out. Their struggles outside of the Twitter war were relatable but specific enough; the characters felt dynamic.

I was surprised to hear this was Lord’s debut novel. The writing was detailed and flowed well. This book is classic YA with many modern twists. I honestly could not put this book down once I started. It is a perfect example of YA romance.

The concept is freaking adorable. I really liked it. I'm not a fan of books that swap perspectives, but that's just me. Overall, I did enjoy it. If you're looking for a cute romance, here it is.

4.5 stars

This was such a good and fun read, and it didn’t actually take me long to finish it when I actually sat down and focused on reading instead of prioritizing other tasks. Both Pepper and Jack were interesting characters, and the story was well plotted out.

I loved the trifecta of interactions between the two. First there’s the Weazl app–so named because of the song “Pop Goes the Weasel”–where all the users start off anonymous and then the more they interact the more likely that their true identities will be revealed to the other person. I thought that it was a fun and fascinating way to handle this part of the story. Because Pepper wonders why they’ve been talking for months without being revealed…not realizing that she has been speaking to the app developer the whole time, and he decided that he likes the anonymous conversation.

Then there’s Pepper and Jack’s interactions in person. Pepper is on the Swim Team and Jack is on the Dive Team, so they bump into each other a lot. Add in the fact that Jack has to take on a lot of tasks because his twin brother (the Dive Team Captain) has so many other activities that he can’t possibly do everything, and Jack and Pepper end up having to work together quite a bit.

Finally, there is their interactions on Twitter. Jack is the primary poster on his family deli’s Twitter feed, and Pepper’s mom keeps asking her to post things for her family’s corporate burger joint’s account (since the actual social media girl isn’t fast or witty enough to come up with good zingers). At first Pepper and Jack don’t realize it’s each other running this online Twitter feud, but when they figure it out they talk about calling off the war…but it is helping bring in the business to Jack’s family’s deli. So they make a deal to keep the war going, with no holds barred.

Honestly it was so fun to see the myriad ways that Pepper and Jack interacted with each other. They are both intelligent people and high achievers. Then throw in fellow student academics, a principal out to stop the app that he thinks promotes harassment, all the Swim and Dive team antics, and a blooming romance and other potential romances, and wow, this book was just chock full of great plot lines.

I seriously can’t wait to pick up my own copy, because this was a fun and cute and witty rom-com novel with a lot of heart and great characters. I’m so glad I read this, and that it lived up to my cuteness expectations. This is a great way to start off the reading year, and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I have.

Tweet Cute was great! The story had a lot of elements and it kept me entertained the entire time. I feel it really stayed realistic to the thoughts and actions of teenagers and sometimes that's really hard to capture in YA contemporaries. It was very up to date and usually reading about memes and Twitter is too cringy in YA, but I think Tweet Cute did a fantastic job! I like that the author wasn't afraid of being outdated in a few years. I also really like the portrayal of NYC in Tweet Cute. Pepper is initially against the city and I was afraid the book was going to finish without her exploring and falling in love with it. Luckily, my fears were not realized, haha, because I love when stories make New York to be like a mythical place of dreams.

The romance was adorable and I don't want to spoil anything, but I love the decision this book made when it came to the two characters going to college. It didn't give us an ambiguous ending about the future like a lot of YA contemporaries do. At the end of the day all books are fantasy and I don't always need a lesson regarding what is right and what is wrong when considering going to college. Hopefully this doesn't just make sense to me lol, sorry.

The only downside about Tweet Cute is I think the author spent too much time explaining emotions. Sometimes you have to let dialog and actions speak for themselves, characters don't have to make ten different similes to explain what something felt like. Also along the same lines, the plotline about the two characters being anonymous penpals (while was great) was weakly explained. Pepper and Jack would state that the other (Bluebird and Wolf) were the only person they could confine in/trust/etc. and we never really saw that. I didn't believe based on the few text interactions we actually saw from them that there was any special connection. Again, I think the book was trying to pull off a lot of different storylines and most were absolutely great, but this one needed a little more work.

All in all though, I would highly recommend Tweet Cute. Social Media is endlessly fascinating and I love that the book wasn't trying to teach a lesson about it. It was just another factor in the story, as it is in real life.

5 BIG HUGE FREAKING STARS! I’d give it 10, 50, a 100 if I could! I. Loved. This. Book 🥰 so so much!

I have been looking for a romance book to make me feel this way for a long while. Warm, gushy and all smiles. Who knew I would get it from a YA but it happened and I won’t be able to stop thinking or talking about this one for a VERY long time.

I will tell anyone who asks or even doesn’t that they need to read this. Seriously. It’s so stinking cute!

The banter, the fighting, the love. THE ENDING 🙌🏻 it was all perfect. Just perfect. ((Chefs kiss)) Read. This. Book!

This book was so cute!! I really loved the story as well as Pepper and Jack's relationship. The whole anon-texting/writing trope is a huge favorite of mine...as well as the rivals to love. I found this one hard to put down once I started it and can't wait until the next book from Emma Lord.

***Thank you to NetGalley, Wednesday Books and Emma Lord. I voluntarily read and reviewed this book. All opinions are my own.***

There are simply not enough good things to say about Tweet Cute. It was exactly the YA sweetness, heartache and laughs that I needed, without ever feeling clichéd. Lord did an exceptional job with expressing the ever-present and often overwhelming emotions of teens. I absolutely fell in love with her writing. It’s an impressive read for a first novel.

Pepper is an overachieving overachiever, often to her own detriment, and runs the Twitter account for her family’s chain of burger restaurants. When they introduce a grilled cheese, a local deli accuses them of stealing the recipe, sparking a Twitter war. Little does Pepper know that the person behind the deli’s twitter account is Jack, member of the dive team and all-around thorn in her side. As swim team captain, she has to work with Jack to find a pool schedule that works for both teams. She’s also talking to him anonymously—and falling for him—on a school chat app that Jack built. Things are getting personal on all fronts, but as rivals, things could never work out between them, could it?

I was in love with Jack from the moment I met him. He’s smart and snarky and so quick-thinking that it was impossible not to fall for him. I loved Pepper too. She’s a match for Jack in smarts and wit, not to mention snark. It was so hard to see the toll of her mother’s constant pressure took on Pepper, but I think it made the little moments with Jack that much more. The story had wonderful balance. There were tender moments, angry moments and lots of laughs. Stories like this are the reason that I read YA, and I honestly can’t recommend this book strongly enough. Even if you’re not a giant fan of YA, Lord’s storytelling and talent for writing are worth the read!

Great job, debut author, Emma Lord! Tweet Cute offered so much more than just the totes adorbs title and cover; there was definitely some substance behind the fluffiness. Told in alternating POVs, Tweet Cute is the story of Pepper and Jack (who eventually become known on the internets as PepperJack, OMG can you stand it???). Pepper is an overachiever who has never felt quite at home in NYC after her parents’ amicable divorce transported she, her mother and sister from Nashville. Her Mom, now CEO of the chain of Big League Burger restaurants (which she and her husband began in Nashville when Pepper was little), drags Pepper into the company’s Twitter war started by Girl Cheesing. Enter our second POV . . . Jack is a classmate of Pepper’s. He’s not as charismatic as his identical twin but he’s whatever. His parents own Girl Cheesing, a deli started by his Grandma Belly. Jack loves it; it’s a part of him and a part of his neighborhood. But he’s not sure he wants it to be his whole life. His true love is app developing. He anonymously created an app called Weazel for kids in his private high school to communicate, anonymously. Everyone is on it. Even Pepper. Pepper and Jack are basically BFFs on Weazel and both feel a deep connection that could lead to more than friendship . . . Anyway, when Jack discovers that Big League Burger has added a grilled cheese called “Grandma’s Special” to their menu, which just happens to be an exact featured item on Girl Cheesing’s menu, he takes to Twitter. And all hell breaks loose. Social. Media. War. That goes very, very viral. What follows is Pepper v. Jack (in addition to lots of family stuff). Will their frenemistry turn into straight-up love??? The internet is shipping them!!! Will that help or hurt??? What will happen when they discover their true identities in Weazel???

In addition to the romantic tension between Pepper and Jack, I absolutely loved the family-run business storyline and the logistics of running a restaurant. I really, really like YA books that focus on teens with jobs because that is such a reality for most teens. Although I’m sure few teens will relate to the family-run business aspect of the story, they will definitely relate to the challenges of working while maintaining good grades and college aspirations, pressure from parents and peers, the pitfalls of high school relationships, and the thrills and dangers of going viral. Great stuff. Excellent audio, narrated by Dan Bittner <3 and Emily Shaffer.

Wow, how did it take me so long to read .this book after graciously being approved for it on Netgalley(thank you to the publisher),
This book was so dang cute (with a matching cute title) and lighthearted, maybe a little cheesy (ha!) but also frustrating at times. The romance was swoon-worthy and I loved the banter and snark. Read it in just a few hours and couldn’t put it down. Happy endings FTW!