This book is just as the title implies and is so CUTE! With this extra long January, it hit all of my rom com sweet spots. Per the blurb, you think it’s a very simple YA story. However, there are so many layers, with parent relationships, school relationships, and romantic relationships that all evolve throughout the book. A classic character mix with Pepper, the chronic overachiever and Jack, the class clown with no cares in the world as our main characters. As you discover more of the story, you realize that everyone is dealing with things that are more than what meets the eye. And it all starts off with a twitter feud. I quickly became enamored with all the characters in this book, and happily laughed my way to the end.

4/5 stars

This was such a sweet YA romance that lightly covers some serious teen subjects. I really loved PepperJack and couldn't help shipping them from the start!

<u>Synopsis</u>
Pepper's family runs Big League Burger and Jack's family runs Girl Cheesing. When Big League Burger releases a grilled cheese that's a identical copy to grandma's special at Girl Cheesing, things take to Twitter and get a little heated. Meanwhile, the teens go to the same school and have been anonymously getting closer on Weazel, a chat app developed by Jack.

<u>Pacing & Points of View</u>
This story was a very quick read with two points of view for Jack and Pepper.

<u>Characters</u>
Pepper was easy to love and you immediately wanted to read more about her. She tried so hard to keep the peace in her family life and be an overachiever in school that you couldn’t help but feel for her. Jack was the class clown with a hidden talent for creating apps. He spends most of his time trying to be everything his twin brother was not and it definitely made me connect to him as the underdog. I really loved reading about how they connected anonymously on Weazel, had different feelings in real life towards each other, and then watching them connect more as the story progressed. I loved all the Pepper and Jack interactions. Them both being on the swim team was a nice addition and a sport you really don’t see a lot in stories. Even though the story is sweet, there were definite serious undertones that Jack and Pepper faced including teen pressure to be good at everything, competitive peers, parental expectations vs. teen's well being, and the life of family run and small businesses. This was seen throughout the story with school, the family run businesses, swim team and their home life. The struggles they faced definitely allowed the characters to connect and made for a deeper story for the reader when it all came together.

<u>Overall</u>
Overall, I really enjoyed this super cute YA read with a few deep issues scattered throughout. Even though everyone is Team Grilled Cheese or Team Burger, I'm honestly still over here craving monster cake.

*Thank you so much to St. Martin's Press and Netgalley for gifting and allowing me the opportunity to read this digital ARC.

Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist. Her family may be falling apart, but their massive fast-food chain is booming ― mainly thanks to Pepper, who is barely managing to juggle real life while secretly running Big League Burger’s massive Twitter account.

Enter Jack, class clown and constant thorn in Pepper’s side. When he isn’t trying to duck out of his obscenely popular twin’s shadow, he’s busy working in his family’s deli. His relationship with the business that holds his future might be love/hate, but when Big League Burger steals his grandma’s iconic grilled cheese recipe, he’ll do whatever it takes to take them down, one tweet at a time.

All’s fair in love and cheese ― that is, until Pepper and Jack’s spat turns into a viral Twitter war. Little do they know, while they’re publicly duking it out with snarky memes and retweet battles, they’re also falling for each other in real life ― on an anonymous chat app Jack built.As their relationship deepens and their online shenanigans escalate ― people on the internet are shipping them?? ― their battle gets more and more personal, until even these two rivals can’t ignore they were destined for the most unexpected, awkward, all-the-feels romance that neither of them expected..

Tweet Cute is a very cute and entertaining new YA book. Altough the story is quite thin and falls flat at some moments, I really liked reading it. The story alternates in POV between Pepper and Jack, it is always nice when the reader knows both sides of the story.
I think this is a book that is most suitable for younger teens, for older ones the twitter issues can sound a little childish. It was a cute and funny storyline that Jack and Pepper started to know each other in real life, and also anonymously online on the Weazel app, without knowing they already knew each other. The unraveling though of their online identities was a bit thin, I truly expected more of that part. But those little critique points, this is a cute romantic comedy for teens.

Tweet Cute follows Pepper Evans and Jack Campbell, two fellow Stone Wall Prep students who hate each other in the real world, but find themselves connecting anonymously online through an app called Weazel, `a la A Cinderella Story, Love Simon, Alex Approximately, and dozens of other movies and books—you get the gist. However, after Pepper’s mother’s fast food chain, Big League Burger, releases a grilled cheese that’s all too similar to Jack’s family’s deli’s grilled cheese special, right down to the name—Grandma’s Special—and not to mention the recipe (I know, I know, grilled cheese is bread and cheese to me, but guys! This has, like, apple butter and bacon and stuff. It’s not average Joe grilled cheese!). Angrily, Jack sends out a tweet accusing Big League Burger of stealing their recipe, and unknowingly starting a Twitter war. When Big League Burger’s social media manager struggles to keep up with the fledgling Twitter war, Pepper is pulled in to take over.

Now this is just the general plot, but beyond this, there is so much else going on. First off, remember that app Weazel? It just happens to be Jack’s creation for his fellow classmates to anonymously talk with each other online. Jack is proud of his app, hoping to pursue app development if he can get out of the shadow of his perfect twin brother and his parents’ plan to have him take over the family business, Girl Cheesing.

Pepper, on the other hand, is struggling to adjust to life in the big city. After her parents divorced and Big League Burger became a fast food chain, Pepper moved to New York City from Nashville with her mother and sister at the start of her freshman year. Now in her senior year of high school at Stone Wall Prep, an expensive private school for overachievers, Pepper’s found her niche but still feels just as out of place. She tries to do everything she can to come out on top—perfect grades, debate team, fundraising, swim team, the whole spiel—to make her mother happy. She doesn’t have any friends as she quickly realized it’s a dog-eat-dog world at Stone Wall Prep, but she finds her own happiness in baking and managing a baking blog with her sister.

There are so many things that this book just excelled at like managing so many plot lines. We have the Twitter war, Pepper and Jack’s friendship as Wolf and Bluebird on Weazel, their family lives, their friendships, their dreams and struggles, etc. Lord handles all of them like a master, weaving the plots together to make a story that feels real but not over loaded.

Next, there’s the wit, which really should have been the first thing I mentioned. Whether it’s Pepper and Jack, Bluebird and Wolf, or Big League Burger and Girl Cheesing trading spars, the conversations and Tweets are fresh and funny, keeping you invested and on your toes. For example:
“Big League Burger @B1gLeagueBurger
Anyone who unfollows Girl Cheesing on Twitter gets 50% off our grilled cheese too! All three and a half of you are welcome anytime
Girl Cheesing @GCheesing
Anyone who unfollows Big League Burger on Twitter gets 50% off their next grilled cheese! And, y’know, the relative comfort of knowing they’re eating something that doesn’t suck”

Then there’s the characters, who all seem so carefully crafted and have their own personalities, preventing them from blending together. Besides the main characters of Jack and Pepper, there’s also Paige, Pepper’s confident older sister attending college in Philly; Paul, Jack’s hopelessly naive (but adorable!) best friend/sidekick; Pooja, Pepper’s rival/frenemey; Landon, Pepper’s sort of crush; Ethan, Jack’s golden child twin; Taffy, the dog loving social media manager for Big League Burger; and not to mention the parents—Pepper’s domineering CEO mother, Jack’s busy dad and cool mom, and of course, Grandma Belly who’s the sassy, caring grandmother we all need in this story. There’s also the students of Stone Hall and the regulars at Girl Cheesing making appearances on the side who are more vivid and realistic than your average side characters.

And there’s the family dynamics! Pepper’s family feels very distant. Her parents are divorced and her mother and sister have had a falling out and don’t speak to each other. Pepper also feels a weird type of guilt for disappointing her mother, pressuring her to be perfect. However, Pepper and Paige have a great sisterly bond that feels real and true through the pages. Jack, on the other hand, has a tight knit family, but he also seems to clash with his father, who he doesn’t always see eye to eye with. He has a great relationship with his mother and she gives him lots of motherly advice. Grandma Belly takes the role of being Jack’s listening ear and helping him be more understanding of life.

And I kind of loved Jack and Ethan’s brotherly relationship. They had a sort of sibling rivalry I don’t really see in other books, and I loved how Emma Lord described Jack’s struggle to get out of a shadow identical to his own. Ethan is the popular guy at school and most of the students mistake Jack for his brother only to be disappointed it’s Jack, not Ethan. I felt like this was a really interesting dynamic that a lot of people can relate to in different ways.

You also might have guessed from the play on words in the title that there is eventually a romance—and you’re right! It’s slow building, but it doesn’t leave you eye rolling or annoyed. It’s realistic, guiding Jack and Pepper from enemies to friends to something more so smoothly you can’t really tell where they even start to like each other.

Unfortunately, there’s some odd points in this book that just didn’t hit the mark. Like Landon.

For a good chunk of the book Pepper insisted she only liked him her freshman year and no longer had a thing for him, but boy she could’ve fooled me. She quickly revisits that crush, but I couldn’t tell you why. The boy is rude, arrogant, and sort of a jerk. He constantly blows her off and hardly acknowledges her. However, it does show that sometimes crushes are only surface level in the real world.

Then there’s also Stephen. For some reason, I picture Stephen (Ethan’s boyfriend) in my mind as this cool, sweet, nice guy everyone is friends with. And, um, why??? First of all, Stephen is rarely mentioned in the book other than when he’s making out with Ethan. And he also never talks. Like at all. It isn’t until the epilogue that we finally see him talk all of two times (and I was right, he's lovely!).

And the sandwich stealing ending. It felt like the whole time we were supposed to be mad at Pepper’s mom for Big League Burger stealing the grilled cheese recipe only for the ending to seemingly try to pin the fault on someone else. It just felt awkward and uncomfortable, especially since that character didn’t even address his/her own fault in the situation.

To round out this super long review, I’m giving this book 5 stars. Sure it has a couple minor faults, but it really excelled across the board. I would recommend it to anyone who likes a little wit in their stories and is tired of easy, one-dimensional love stories. Tweet Cute is fresh and sweet, but leaves you hungry for grilled cheese and Monster Cake!

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Pepper, the daughter of the founders of Big League Burger, is just trying to stay ahead in her extremely competitive high school. When Big League Burger introduces a new grilled cheese to the menu with the same name and ingredients as local Girl Cheesing’s sandwich, a Twitter war breaks out. Pepper’s mom is pressuring her to stay on top of it, but she finds herself closer to her classmate Jack whose parents own Girl Cheesing in the process.

I didn’t give myself a lot of time to read this. Luckily that wasn’t a problem because I could not put this down! It alternates between Pepper and Jack’s points of view, which allows the story to unfold in a unique way. With elements of You’ve Got Mail, this is such a perfect teenage love story.

It's Pepper and Jack's senior year. Pepper is trying to stay on top of her grades and be captain of the swim team. Jack is living in the shadows of his twin brother, Ethan, while helping his family with their deli. Each of their families owns a restaurant, but Pepper's family has gone national. The Twitter battle between the two restaurants will fall into the hands of these young adults. But even though they know each other from school, they don't know that the other is on the other side of the battle. What will happen when it's all laid out on the table?

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the opportunity to read and review this book.

When I was about 30% of the way through this book, I was sure I was going to give it three stars. The story was cute, but it was moving slowly and I could predict how this story was going to end. But not too long afterwards, there was a twist, I didn't see coming. And there were more surprises to come. When it was all said and done, I really enjoyed this story and I even found myself getting a bit emotional towards the end.

This book is about family and young love. It's about food and friendship and finding out who you are supposed to be at a pivotal point in your life.

For all of my YA Romance fans, I highly recommend that you check this title out.

I was so happy to get this book because I was in a reading slump and the synopsis sounded like exactly what I needed to get our of it. And it definitely did not disappoint. It was fast paced and kept me wanting to read it so I went through it pretty fast. I really loved seeing the connection between the two main characters develop and loved being able to see both of their perspectives through the dual point of view. It was a really cute, witty, and enjoyable rom-com, and I can't wait to see what else this author puts out.

Tweet Cute is cuteness personified! It's about two teens who find their family restaurants in competition for ownership of a legendary grilled cheese recipe! Circumstances force them to wage a Twitter war and these tweets with snarky memes goes viral fast. Tweeting with your enemy shouldn't be this fun, should it?
Overall, this debut is perfect for YA contemporary fans. It can be described as Gossip Girl meets You've Got Mail with a bit of To All the Boys I've Loved Before. Thank to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC

I am so happy I was granted a copy of this book. The premise sounded cute, and I went in expecting a quick fluff read. Man this book was so fun to read. I was immediately engaged and rooting for the characters. I just wish there was a way to taste all the delicious food they mention throughout the book.

Cute romcom that is very with the times. The characters were easy to fall in love with and share their struggles. Easy, light reading.

I wished for a copy of this book on Netgalley and was lucky enough to get a copy! I really enjoyed this book. I wasn't sure how I would feel about reading about a modern day love story that starts around a tweet war. The characters were relatable. The story wasn't completely unrealistic. I enjoyed the writing style as well as the pop culture references. I thought it was adorable that the main characters names are Pepper and Jack. I would have loved to see more of where this story is going, even though I know it is a stand alone. I will very much be looking forward to more books from Emma Lord in the future.

This book is so freaking cute! I loved how we got to see Jack and Pepper both in school and with their families and slowly saw how they got thrown together by circumstances. It's sweet and very funny (their banter is A+) and the kind of rom com you might see on Netflix. Fantastic!

Tweet Cute

I Picked Up This Book Because: Seemed like a good idea at the time.

The Characters:

Pepper Evans:
Jack Campbell:
Paige Evans, Ethan Campbell, Pooja, Paul

The Story:

So imagine You’ve Got Mail but with teenagers and restaurants instead of bookstores. Oh and they “go to the mattresses” via Twitter. I have to say I was waiting for the story to divert from the YGM format and it did but it didn’t. Fortunately I love that movie so I didn’t mind much but my inability to stop comparing them annoys me. I’m going to try to talk about this without comparison, we’ll see how it goes.

I love Jack and Pepper. Their flirty “fighting” is cute from the get go even before they discovered they were Twitter enemies. Both Jack and Pepper go through a ton with each other but also at home. Jack is constantly feeling inferior to his twin Ethan and Pepper is trying to navigate the rocky relationship between her sister and her mom. And speaking of Mrs. Evans what a bully. Even after she explains why her actions are still inexcusable but I digress. The story line is multifaceted and my random summarization probably makes little sense. I’ll just say I liked it.

The Random Thoughts:

Can I just say I hate the name Girl Cheesing. It’s so awkward to say/read.

The Score Card:

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4 Stars

Tweet Cute is the perfect read if you are looking for a love story that will make you smile. If you're wondering what a 2020 teen romance version of You Got Mail would be like look no further. Chapters are told through Pepper and Jack's perspective, two classmates that have more in common than they originally thought.

They get into an online twitter war over grilled cheese and that's where the fun begins. This was a cute, quirky and grilled cheesy read and I loved it. I loved the two characters so much and I enjoyed the banter between them. Also all the Mean Girls references made my basic heart so happy. This is a romance read for the millennial but its so much more!

Thank you Wednesday books for the advanced copy of this one!

First Impressions...
Gah!!! I loved this so freaking much! Have you ever finished a book and loved it so much that you wish you hadn't finished it just so that you could go back and immediately read it again for the first time? Well, that's how TWEET CUTE made me feel...*happy sobs*

This Book In 5 Words:
Adorable. Funny. Amazing. Sassy. Sweet.

What Did I Like:
- Everything..seriously this book was packed full of snark, cuteness, flirty banter, and all of the goodness that make rom-coms so wonderful!

- The characters! Pepper and Jack were absolutely amazing! I loved them both, and I adored seeing them get to know each other on so many levels. I also loved seeing how they both helped each other come into themselves and fight for their dreams. The secondary characters were also fantastic, especially Jack's Grandma Belly and some of Pepper and Jack's classmates. :)

- The You've Got Mail parallels...You've Got Mail is my absolute favourite rom-com, so anytime I get to read a book that can be compared to it, I jump at the chance, and TWEET CUTE used the tropes/similar setups perfectly!

- The story itself! Twitter Wars! Grilled Cheese! Memes Galore! Seriously this book was so much fun, and I loved how pop culture and social media was woven so intricately throughout the story. I also adored the romance so much. It was sweet, and so, so wonderful! It left me swoony, and super happy...the epilogue in particular had me smiling like crazy! Also...their shipname...adorable! :

What Didn't I Like:
- Hmmm....honestly, nothing. I seriously loved TWEET CUTE and highly recommend it!

Star Rating:
★★★★★

Read If You Like:
Rom-coms, especially if you're a fan of You've Got Mail! I think you'll also love this one if you're a fan of contemporaries, and if you have a soft spot for funny Twitter exchanges/any and all memes, you'll love it even more!

Overall, I absolutely loved TWEET CUTE! I thought it was wonderful, and I adored Pepper and Jack! TWEET CUTE is packed full of classic rom-com goodness and is sure to make you swoon, sigh, giggle, and just pretty much feel ALL THE THINGS!

*4.5*

This was the absolute CUTEST thing! Exactly what I needed to get me to fall back in love with reading. It's been such a long time since I've connected well to a character, but I felt myself really relating to both Jack and Pepper. This was so witty and sweet, with the perfect mix of some more serious topics. It was VERY YA, but what do you expect? It's about two teenagers in a Twitter war... Obviously it'll be a bit cliche YA. But it was, nevertheless, amazing. I'm only knocking down a half star because there were some parts that were unnecessary IMO or dragged on a bit. There was never a time it didn't pick back up though. I loved this book and am so grateful for getting a chance to read it. I kept finding myself smiling down at the words on the page and it's been so long since a story has had that effect on me. SO CUTE!!!


Thank you SO much to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a free advanced copy! All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This was too cute! This book was so romantic and over the top novel, absolutely loved it, will absolutely recommend it!

Pepper Evans helps out her family's booming burger business by running their social media accounts. When they announce their newest item, Grandma's Grilled Cheese, a local deli claims theft publicly on Twitter, which, unbeknownst to Pepper, is run by Pepper's classmate, Jack. Now, Pepper and Jack have always studiously avoided each other for the most part in the halls of their high school and the lanes in the community pool where they have swim practice, but when they discover who is behind slamming each of their families on Twitter, it becomes an all-out war, and neither can avoid the other anymore, and, if they are being honest, do they even want to? This was an original young-adult novel that did not induce one eye roll from me, which is incredibly surprising, since eye rolls usually run rampant for me in YA. Thank you to St. Martin's Press & Wednesday Books, Emma Lord, and Netgalley for my advance copy. I'm excited to see what else this author comes up with.

Sometimes you come upon that rare gem of a book that makes you laugh out loud, relate to the characters and simply delight with its clever and witty dialogue. That book was Tweet Cute! It was such a fun, banterific book that left me so happy and thinking about the story for days afterward. Let me tell you why you need to get this book on your must read list ASAP!

Pepper was transplanted to NYC from Nashville at the beginning of high school when her parents burger restaurant took off into a national chain. Plopped into an elite high school reminiscent of the show Gossip Girl, she quickly chameleoned herself to blend in with her high achieving classmates. She is a straight A student, captain of the swim team and an avid baker, co-blogging with her older sister about the creations they’ve been putting together since childhood. She also finds herself unceremoniously saddled with the corporate Twitter account for Big League burgers when a local New York deli accuses them of stealing their infamous grandma’s grilled cheese recipe. Armed with wise cracks and snarky memes, a full out Twitter emerges between the two companies but little did she know the face behind the opposition’s Twitter is her fellow classmate!

Jack is one half of a twin and fiercely loyal to his family’s deli. Indignant about this corporate burger place stealing his Grandma Belly’s recipe, he dives into the Twitter war feet first without hesitation. As he spars with Pepper he finds that he actually is starting to enjoy her company and her smart wise cracks — and vice versa. Little do the BOTH of them know they’ve been anonymously talking on an app everyone at their school is chatting on. Rivals, Twitter war enemies…friends?

There are SO many hilarious memes and popular internet mentions in here, it’s like an Easter egg minefield and had me chuckling and snickering to myself basically nonstop. It was DELIGHTFUL. The popular memes mentioned does beg the question: how will this book age? I think the answer to that is it’ll age just fine — look at how much people love Ready Player One for the dropped mentions and nostalgic nods. I can picture Tweet Cute years and years from now and people falling into nostalgic memories in much the same way!

The banter and back and forth between Jack and Pepper not only in their biting tweets to each other but in their actual conversations is the literal best. Their comebacks are just so on point and snarky and I seriously can’t resist banter. It launches immediate heart eyes and shippy feels for me and Tweet Cute has the banter in spades! I also loved Jack so much – I basically smiled every time he flashed a smile. The swoon factor was high and he is just such a sweet and thoughtful guy!

Not only is the evolution of Pepper and Jack’s friendship so natural and fantastic, the book also explores familial relationships and other friendships so well! It addresses parental expectations, obligations and family dynamics very authentically and in a relatable way. I could totally empathize with those expectations and that weighty senior year feeling as you look out into your future of college and life beyond the four walls of high school. All the high school friendships held an authenticity that some YA novels miss but this one nails it on the head.

And I haven’t even mentioned another favorite part that made me love this book. The FOOD. My friends know me to be a foodie and the greatest compliment you can give me is to compare me to the food-loving Merry or Pippin from Lord of the Rings. This book, you guys, it made my foodie heart sing. Grilled cheeses, Monster Cakes, Kitchen Sink Macaroons and other amazing baked goods abound! I was drooling. So, of course I had to take these creations and test it out myself a la Pepper experimenting in her kitchen.

In short…
Tweet Cute was such a delightful contemporary debut! A laugh out loud, relatable story with characters I adore! Filled to the brim with banter and clever witticisms, Tweet Cute will have you falling in love with Pepper and Jack and rooting for the both of them as they battle it out online and slowly fall for each other in real life. I dare you not to crave a fresh grilled cheese and baked good when reading this and long to stroll through NYC while eating a combination of both.

This was such a cute, witty, enjoyable little rom com, a classic enemies to lovers. I loved seeing the connection between the two main characters develop. It was told from dual perspective which I think added to the story.
Pepper, swim team captain and perfectionists finds herself in a Twitter war with Jack the class clown. Of course the enemies find themselves sitting right next to eachother in class. As they start spending more time together, they start to fall for one another. Will they be able to put their differences aside to keep their budding relationship going, only time will tell.