Supper cute story. The writing style was great. Kept my attention from begging to end which has been hard lately.

This book was so much fun. It is lighthearted and full of witty banter between teens who attend an elite private school on the upper east side (think Gossip Girl, but they make fun of Gossip Girl, so they're better? ... )

The characters, even the annoying ones, were fun to watch grow into themselves. I actually enjoyed that there weren't any horribly evil people in this book. Every single person in the book (in the high school, homes, and businesses) seemed like people I would/could meet in real life, therefore making the book even more realistic. The connections between the friends, the siblings, kids/parents, and even the parents themselves all seem legit and real. It made my heart happy to see that projected from the page.

I'll admit it. At first I was a bit skeptical of the main plot line. A Twitter war? Really? But it was plausible with the way it was written. There was only thing that had me snagged toward the end, so it knocks it down a bit for me.

However, between the writing and the characters and the rest of the story holding its own, the book is a solid debut and I cannot wait to see what else Emma Lord had in store for us!

This book took a while for me to read for some reasons... I really enjoyed this novel it wasn't a five star read for me, but still really good.

Five reasons to read this book:
1) A twitter war over a family recepie
2) Pop culter references
3) Both main characters love grill cheese
4) Made me hungry a lot
5) I laughed a lot in here and love the characters, and love the diversity

Thank you to Wednesday Books and Netgalley for the free review copy!

TWEET CUTE by Emma Lord is (unironically) a very cute rom-com. Like most teens today, our main characters Pepper and Jack are incredibly tech-savvy and social media inclined. Without giving away too many spoilers, this book reads like a modern-day You've Got Mail for young adults. Both Pepper and Jack run large Twitter accounts that are constantly at war with one another, but little do they know they're also falling for each other in life on an anonymous chat app built by Jack. 

Ultimately, if you like quirky characters and fast-paced writing, this book is for you. Personally I don't think I'm exactly the target audience for this particular rom-com (I found it just a little *too* quirky, and the theme combination of cheese and technology didn't really do it for me). Nonetheless, I think it's a book many people will enjoy, so I still highly recommend it!

This review will be posted on my main platform (http://instagram.com/inquisitivebookworm) on 1/25/19.

I loved this book. It's cute, adorable, modern, filled with fun and relatable characters, sprinkled with romance and well-written friendships. I'd definitely recommend this for any contemporary YA reader in your life !

This is a really cute teen romantic comedy where two teens who run their family restaurant businesses' Twitter accounts get into an online feud. Pepper is the overachieving daughter of the CEO of Big League Burger, and between swimming, competing with her other prep school classmates, and stress baking, she helps manage the company's Twitter account. Jack helps out at his family's deli, Girl Cheesing, where his father won't listen to him about expanding their deli's social media presence. When BLB steals a grilled cheese recipe from Girl Cheesing and Jack calls out the company on Twitter, Pepper is called upon by her mom to defend the company. If that weren't enough, Jack and Pepper also antagonize each other at school and on a private chat app, all without realizing who they are really talking to.
This was really funny, cute, and had some twists and turns that I wasn't expecting. Rom-com is having a renaissance, and I'm here for it!

This young adult romance is about tweets and the characters are cute so it wins for most appropriate title, Tweet Cute. Ahhh, first love. Technically, first annoyance and then love.

Pepper is uprooted from her Nashville roots to move to NYC with her family. Their restaurant, Big League Burgers, has gone global. As we meet Pepper, she has gotten used to her ritzy Upper East Side prep school. She is massively competitive both academically and on the school’s female swim team. Pepper’s mother also pressures her to send out snarky (and therefore buzzworthy) tweets for their restaurant chain.

Meanwhile, Jack and his much more popular twin, Ethan, are students at the same prep school. Ethan is captain of the school’s male dive team and on the student counsel. Jack has secretly created a school wide app called Weazel that allows students to talk anonymously with no bullying allowed. He has been chatting with a girl with whom he feels a real connection. But he feels it would be cheating to look in his files for her name.

Most students have trouble telling the twins apart but not Pepper. So when Jack appears as Ethan to meet her about the swim team, she immediately lets him know that she knows he is “parent trapping” her. While Jack has always annoyed Pepper with his constant ribbing, she feels strangely at ease in his company.

However, Jack is rather snarky on Twitter too on behalf of his family’s small local deli. He tweets to the large chain restaurant who stole the name, and possibly the recipe, of their most famous sandwich. Of course, the restaurant is Pepper’s family business.

Tweet Cute uses the app, tweets, and swim/dive team connection to spark a romance between Jack and Pepper. Despite being totally predictable, I enjoyed spending a few hours in the lives of Jack and Pepper. Their story is engaging. It forces you to root for them to make it no matter how many obstacles the author puts in their way. It’s a feel-good story with genuine characters and many laugh-out-loud moments. 4 stars!

Thanks to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

Jack and Pepper clash on Twitter in a war that escalates and goes viral. While they hash it out on the Twittosphere, they grow closer and closer in real life and before long, they’re falling for each other.

The plot was an interesting one with complications thrown in at every curve and emotional bombs blowing up in their faces left and right. How to navigate all those pitfalls while also trying to juggle their respective families, school lives and potential love interests without breaking down and crying ‘Uncle’? These two teens had their work cut out for them.

I had some issues with the main characters and there were times when I wanted to yell at them to stand up for themselves against their family but they were likable sorts.

There were a lot of scenes I liked and smiled over and some that I felt dragged a bit. Overall, this was a nice story with a good plot and interesting characters.

I loved this book, couldn’t put it down and read it in one gulp. A unique take on the literary rom-com, meet cute style. Highly recommend.

Tweet Cute was one of my most anticipated reads of 2020 and, needless to say that I was kind of ecstatic to get to participate in this blog tour and to discover this book early, just as well. I’m even happier to be able to state that, yes, this book defied my expectations and I will scream about it forever okay? OKAY.

A TWITTER WAR, A MODERN ROM-COM I LOVED
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Tweet Cute is about two classmates from a preppy New York high school, both taking care of their respective food company’s twitter account and starting a twitter war with each other over who does the best grilled sandwich. Basically. Obviously, they don’t know they’re fighting with each other, obviously they’re also, on another, school app, exchanging messages, as friends, this time. Basically, it’s a really modern spin of You’ve Got Mail and it’s fun and filled with banter and laughter and social media. It’s modern and fun and twisted and it’s all I ever wanted in a tweet contemporary romance.

Oops.

SWEET. Not Tweet.

A CAST OF RELATABLE CHARACTERS I WANT TO HUG
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Told in two point of views, we get to see both Jack and Pepper’s points, each on their side of this twitter war, each with their own family issues, struggles, fears, hopes and dreams. Both point of views felt different and unique and I loved both characters so, so much my heart melted like cheese.

Pepper was one of the most relatable characters, for sure. She’s trying to balance school and her mother’s expectations, trying to handle the social media of one of the biggest food chain companies in the country. She’s a perfectionnist, she’s hard working and she’s incredible, she also tries to do way too much and is terrified of getting out of her comfort zone and the familiar blocks she’s used to in the city of New York. Honestly? I found Pepper to be VERY relatable and I really, really wanted her to chill, to be okay and to, just, relax and find her own self and her own wants, aside from her mother’s expectations.

Jack was another character I’d like to add to the “characters I need to hug” master-list. He’s working in his father’s small deli, he feels like he’s living in the shadow of his popular twin brother and he loves coding and creating apps, but also deals with his own family’s expectations to take the deli once he graduates. I loved Jack so, so much and I found myself rooting for him, too, wanting him to get out of his shell and to affirm his passions, too.

THE BANTER, THE SLOW BURNING ROMANCE AND THE FAMILY VIBES
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I think that one of my favorite things about Tweet Cute, was the banter between Jack and Pepper, a.k.a the very foundation of their relationship. From the A+ tweeting content they both put out to each other (without really knowing it), to their conversations in real life, their every interaction was so much fun to read and always, always had me smiling. Their slow burning relationship, growing from strangers to friends to more, was wonderfully done, too and had me rooting for them to finally grow these feelings, face them and get together already.

Aside from the romance, Tweet Cute also explores family relationships and expectations in a great way. I loved seeing both sides of the story and how, both Jack and Pepper had their own expectations to deal with and how the situation grew thorough the story. I also loved how the story included siblings dynamics. We got to see Pepper’s sister, Paige, away for college and the complex relationship she had with their mother, too. I loved how close Pepper and her were, their Skype conversations and more. I also loved seeing how complex Jack and Ethan’s relationship was and how it influenced the plot, even if I wish we got more interaction between those two.

Another thing I loved was the exploration and growth of an unlikely friendship between Pepper and Pooja, because yes yes yes to girls friendships growing and helping each other out.

OVERALL
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A whole lot of banter, a slow-burning relationship, family pressure and expectations, unlikely friendships and a whole lot of cheese…. Tweet Cute has got it all in this modern rom-com that had me smiling from page one. I devoured this book and I just can’t, can’t wait for you all to fall in love with these characters the way I did.

This book was everything I needed. It pulled me out of a slump and made me laugh. The overall theme of “everything is not what it seems” really held a cloud of the book but in the best way. I kept coming back to this with Pepper and Jack as we watched the story unravel. I know this book just got published but I can’t wait to see the journey it takes as one of the best contemporary fiction love stories of the year.

Tweet Cute felt like a warm hug on the particularly crappy day I was having when I read it. It's an entertaining read filled with banter, pop culture references, and family issues and I can't recommend it enough!

when two rival students end up in a twitter war over their families' rival restaurants, a surprising rapport evolves between the two, especially given their very different philosophies about school. but underneath their differences, they find they have a lot in common.

tweet cute is a charming romantic comedy. pepper and jack are both funny and smart, and the story has just enough emotional depth to make it more than fluff.

this was an enjoyable read, just the perfect way to spend an afternoon.

**tweet cute will publish on january 21, 2020. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/st. martin's press (wednesday books) in exchange for my honest review.

Pepper is experiencing the extreme busyness of life that only a high-achieving senior at a private school can. She spends all her time pushing herself to be the absolute best in academics and on the swim team. Plus, she is trying to take some time here and there to work on the baking blog she and her college-student sister are running together. Not only that, but her parents own a popular restaurant chain that they started as one burger shop a decade earlier, and her mom is pushing hard to take it international.

Jack is a senior at the same exclusive private school in New York City that Pepper attends. He gets good enough grades and is on the dive team, but it’s his identical twin, Ethan, who is hyper-involved and popular. So Jack spends more of his time working at his family’s deli. He’s also learned on his own to build apps, and now his newest one, Weazel, a way for students to communicate anonymously with each other, has gotten very popular at his school. Only he hasn’t told anyone he created it. He is enjoying how well-liked his creation is — and he is enjoying the opportunity he (as “Wolf”) has had through it to get to know a girl at his school he only knows as “Bluebird.”

The two don’t really connect much at school, except for Jack to give Pepper teasing nicknames about how hard she works, but then they end up becoming largely responsible for their parents’ businesses’ Twitter accounts. When Big League Burger introduces a new grilled cheese sandwich, it is suspiciously similar to Girl Cheesing’s old family recipe —and the teens’ snarky jabs at each other’s restaurants erupt into an all-out Twitter war.

Meanwhile, Bluebird and Wolf are supporting each other through the app and wondering who the other is in real life. They’re falling for each other, even as Jack and Pepper go from bitter rivals to friendly rivals to … friends. And maybe even more.

This young adult novel really is cute. It is an updated teen version of “You’ve Got Mail,” and it’s utterly delightful. Pepper and Jack are dealing with all the challenges of their age, with college right around the corner, and jobs and “real life” right after that. They are busy helping their families and feeling obligated to their businesses even as they find themselves frustrated by differing family dynamics. Their tweets and texts are entertaining, as are their interactions with each other IRL. I was thoroughly enchanted.

Emma Lord has written a stellar YA debut. This is a rom com with real heart, filled with the humor and charm necessary for the genre, plus a healthy dollop of depth to make it something more. Pepper is under immense pressure at home and at school. After a childhood spent at her family's burger joint in Nashville, Pepper and her mom have relocated to the Upper West Side, and the burger joint has turned into a massive national fast food chain. Not only does Pepper attend one of the best and most intense prep schools in the country and harbor Ivy League ambitions, but her mom also insists that she "help" the company's out-of-touch social media manager (Taffy) run their Twitter account—to the point that she regularly scolds her daughter for not answering Taffy's calls during the school day. Jack, a far less serious student at the same prep school, is under different kinds of pressure: his family's beloved deli is struggling, and the vice principal has just declared war on Weazel, the wildly successful and semi-anonymous app Jack created as a way to help students to connect and communicate more openly with one another. Lord has managed to balance a relationship between Pepper and Jack that is operated on three different platforms/levels simultaneously. In person, Jack's class-clowning grates at Pepper's nerve, and they're pushed together as the captains of the swim and diving teams. On Weazel, the two have been bantering and getting along for months, understanding each other better than anyone else in their lives—but neither one knows who they're speaking to. Finally, on Twitter, they're engaged in a feud on behalf of their families' restaurants over a stolen grilled cheese recipe. Miscommunication abounds, but in a pleasant change of pace from so many other YA rom coms, the duo work hard to correct course, understand each other, and make amends whenever things go wrong. This is a sweet, funny teen romance with real issues and pressures (divorce, financial woes, family estrangement, sibling rivalry, school stress, competition, etc.) at its heart. I look forward to seeing what Emma Lord does next!

It is a rare thing for me to read young adult. I got burned out on it after being on a few committees and it is just not something I have picked back up again, despite knowing there are so many great titles out there being published. When I was approached about participating in the blog tour for Tweet Cute by Emma Lord, I was very intrigued by the premise. It sounded fun to me and since I’ve had a tough time reading in general, fun is just what I wanted. And this book is definitely fun, make no mistake. But there is a lot of striking character development and a plot with more depth than I expected.

Pepper Evans is a leader in her New York school. She is a straight A student, she has been elected as the swim team captain for her senior year, and she is overall a people pleasing student trying to make the best grades and the best future for herself. It comes with a price though. On top of dealing with all her AP classes, Pepper is basically the de facto person in charge of social media at her mother’s company, Big League Burger. What started out as a mom and pop restaurant in Nashville has grown into the fourth largest burger chain. It is a lot of pressure and Pepper’s mom unfortunately kind of uses her daughter’s snarky talents to make the BLB social media shine.

When Jack Campbell sees Big League Burger has come out with a new sandwich called “Grandma’s Special” he is angry and hits back on twitter. His family’s restaurant, Girl Cheesing, has been part of the East Village for years. He has grown up in the restaurant and knows its customers. He also knows that Girl Cheesing is well known for their Grandma’s Special. He isn’t going to let Big League Burger live this down.

And well, a twitter feud begins. It is not necessarily as fun as it sounds though because while Jack and his twin brother, Ethan, are sending a few retaliatory tweets, for Pepper, these tweets come at the cost of her state of mind. The pressure is on big time.

Tweet Cute has a great mix of humor and teen pressure. Both Pepper and Jack are facing a few assumptions about what the future will hold for them via their individual family members. And unfortunately, neither of them is super gung ho into the restaurant business. Jack is developing apps that may just take off if he gives himself the chance and Pepper loves baking more than she likes high pressure business dealings. Add to that, Jack and Pepper are being thrown together a lot lately in school and while they are starting to become friends, all that swiftly changes with the reveal about who Pepper’s mom is. And the thing is, Pepper needs and deserves some friends. She doesn’t give herself much time to just be herself. She is constantly playing one role or another to appease her mom, or her older sister, or her classmates. No one really knows the Pepper that grew up in Nashville.

I really liked the characters in Tweet Cute and of course, I enjoyed the David versus Goliath battle between Big League Burger and Girl Cheesing. The battle of the corporation versus the hometown favorite may remind people of Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks’ You’ve Got Mail. Tweet Cute stands on its own two feet though. I loved seeing the city through home town guy Jack versus transplant, Pepper. I really liked reading about all the delicious food in this story too!

Tweet Cute has the perfect modern flair and the right amount of teen high stakes pressure to make this book an easy sell to any reader. And of course, there is a great developing romance!

In "Tweet Cute" by Emma Lord we meet Pepper and Jack who could not be more different from one another. Emma the overachieving teenage girl with a demanding mother of an expanding Burger empire, who thinks supporting the social media sides of the company especially Twitter can be done in between things. And Jack the supposely missunderstood twin, who thinks is brother is the golden boy who can't do wrong and he has to pick up his brothers slack.
Both of them go to the same highschool and somehow always cross paths, because their after school activities are quite similar (swim captian for Pepper and diving "quasi"-captian for Jack, because his brother is not doing the Job). But both of them are also helping their parents respective companies with their Twitter accounts.
Everything starts with a tweet from Peppers mothers company about a new menu item which looks ridiculus similar (and also named similar) as a sandwich, which Jacks parents have on their menu.
What started as an innocent retweet to show that they might have stolen the recipe just escalates from there.

To be honest I was curious, how those two parties will interact with each other and their snarky comments trying to up one over the other. But in the end at least on this part it was just a couple of tweets, which were also just semi-funny (at least for my understanding).
The fun part started more on a different angle, where the characters were also chatting with each other on an app, which all students of the school use (which was developed by Jack). There Pepper and Jack had really fun conversations with each other and also sharing of their problems. So there the "hidden identity" came more into play in an interesting way.
Of course of the curse of the book they also start to hangout with each other as well texting each other.

Through the story both characters go through some transformation or at least change of thought process, where they either start to question the status quo, but also are willing to change and adapt. Often our own interpretation of a situation is slightly screwed, especially when you already are uncomfortable because of being "the new kid in school".
But not only Pepper felt insecure, also Jack always felt he is just within the shadow of his brother, who can do no wrong, is super popular and nobody cares about him. Even between siblings there can be wrong assumption develop.

Overall I really enjoyed the book for its lightness and entertaining read. Nevertheless it was intersting how fast social media hypes can be created and how they can turn into a shit storm. Especially intersting was, how mature the teenagers handled it and tried to take a step back to really think things through. The characters were likeable, maybe a little bit too much teenage angst, but that was to be expected.

As I read an Advanced Reading Copy, I hope the actual text messages between Pepper and Jack either as their own or behind their aliases on the school app are a little bit better distinguishable, because sometimes it was a little bit hard to understand, who said what. Contextwise it was clear, but is some cases it would have been easier.

Thank you very much to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for the Advanced Reading Copy.

This book is adorbs and my heart just can’t get over it! Emma Lord’s debut novel, Tweet Cute, is just so fluffy, irresistibly charming, and at times quite chessy, but this book also has heart and I absolutely loved it all.

I had so much fun with this book and can easily say that this will be one of my favorite contemporary romance reads this year. The writing style, for a debut author, is quite impressive. The pacing is good and even when some parts of the story slowed down a bit, I wasn’t really bothered by it and just kept turning the pages. The plot has so many wonderful moments that definitely made me smile, laugh, and warmed my heart. There’s also plenty of snark, a few surprises and twists, and just pages and pages of yummy goodness that had me hooked. I enjoyed the drama, the twitter rivalry, the humor, the lighthearted moments, and the cute romance. I liked the ending and while I kind of craved more swoons and feels (like a pinch or two more), I was pretty happy and satisfied with the conclusion.

Pepper and Jack stole a piece of my heart and I’ll forever ship them. I loved their chemistry, playful bantering, and how their relationship developed throughout the story. I definitely swooned as I watched them fall for each other and my heart ached whenever there would be some sort of misunderstanding between them. I really liked them as individuals too and seeing them succeed and grow into their own was interesting and fun. The supporting casts are great and played their roles well even if some frustrated me, but Pooja definitely stood out the most and in a really good way. I definitely adored Grandma Belly and Jack’s mom is such a sweetheart.

Emma Lord served an irresistibly delightful, fun, swoony, and heartwarming story that had me cheesin’ like crazy until the end. I devoured everything about this deliciously entertaining YA rom-com and I will surely miss PepperJack, monster cakes, and all the chessy feel good moments. But more than anything, this is a story about family, friendship, forgiveness, love and ultimately doing what truly makes you happy. Such fantastic and beautiful story and I truly recommend this book with all my heart.

If you’re looking for an adorable, lighthearted, sweet, and endearing story that will make you laugh, swoon, and crave your favorite food and desserts, then I think you should definitely add this book on your TBR!

I received an advance reader copy from the publisher, Wednesday Books, via Netgalley in exchange for a fair and honest reviews. All thoughts, opinions, and swoon are my own.

I really enjoyed this book!
I thought the writing was really well done and the characters were enjoyable.

This book follows our two main characters in a dual-perspective, Pepper and Jack. Pepper and Jack both live in New York and go to this really nice, for lack of better word, pretentious private school. Think Gossip Girl kind of school here. Everyone gets into Ivy League schools and is super smart. Pepper fits right in. She is super studious, and is always worried about her grades.. Jack has always thought of her as a "robot" with how systematic she is. Pepper's parents are divorced but together they run a large chain of burger restaurants, Big League Burger. One day, a Twitter debacle begins between Big League Burger and a smaller restaurant, Girl Cheesing which Jack's family owns. Jack and Pepper both run the twitter accounts for their family's businesses so they are going back and forth with one another online, without knowing who the other is. They also are messaging anonymously on an app that Jack created called Weazel. Neither of them knows who the other is as they anonymously message, and this story follows them getting further connected to each other and maybe falling in love???

Overall, this story was very enjoyable for me. I do wish there was more diversity within the characters. I did love the family dynamics that were presented. The only thing that took me out of the story at times was how quickly a lot of the issues presented were resolved. At times, characters would be in a disagreement and then a page later everything is fine and all is forgiven. To me that just didn't feel realistic and I would have loved more tension going into these situations.

All in all, I enjoyed picking up the book and thought it was well done and I enjoyed my time reading it.

This book was a cute, quick read. It definitely had a bit of "You've Got Mail!" vibe to it. At first it feels like a truly fluffy read without too much substance, but then as you get closer to the end you realize there's more to it than you originally thought.
Pepper is an overachiever and is constantly in competition with one another in their classes and in the pool. Pepper has managed to blend in well with this group of elite teens despite growing up in another state. When she's not filling out college applications and doing essays, homework, baking, or working on swim team captain things, she chats on Weazel with someone named Wolf. Who is wolf? Why has the app not revealed the person's true name yet? Things start to get crazy in her life when suddenly there's a Twitter war between Big League Burger (which is family owned) and some small business named Girl Cheesing. This Twitter war is ridiculous and wearing her own. Fortunately she has Wolf to talk to.
Jack is an identical twin who feels like he always has to be the responsible one. While his brother is out and about having fun, Jack stays behind and works at the family's deli, Girl Cheesing. Soon, things get crazy for his family when they believe Big League Burger has stolen Grandma Belly's secret grilled cheese recipe. He repays snark with snark on the Twitter page for the deli (which his father has not approved of) and suddenly the Twitter war becomes a thing. There are youtube vlogs and people following their Twitter feeds and the whole thing starts to spiral out of control. Will there ever be peace for the two business and their cheese game?
The ending is charming and sweet and wrapped the whole story up in a pretty package.