This was a super adorable book. I am not usually a fan of YA but this felt mature and witty. I was taken with Pepper's smart, serious personality and Jack's sassy humor. This book made me want to learn how to use Twitter better. I loved the premise of the anonymous online chatroom and the setting in NYC was spot on. Overall a very enjoyable book and I'll likely pick up this author again.

This is an adorable YA contemporary romance. It feels so fresh and relevant and I am in awe that this a debut novel. Pepper and Jack are both characters that I immediately connected to and was rooting for. They are both going through a lot with trying to figure out what they are going to do with their lives since they are Seniors and also trying to navigate some family drama.

The is a classic slow burn romance where I was dying for Pepper and Jack to finally get together. I really love how their relationship started out and how they navigated all the drama surrounding them together. They really became friends first and then we saw their feelings for each other start to grow. I really appreciated that the author, Lord, chose to do this because it made it feel much more realistic. Especially because YA tends to have more insta love and I think this book is a great example of a relationship between teens.

Family dynamics and conflict was very heavily woven throughout this book. As a parent it made it a little difficult to read at times because I was so irritated by the parents and their actions or inactions. Teenage me would have related so much to what Jack and Pepper are dealing with that I know I would have appreciated and related to them so much.

Also, I have to just mention all the amazing baking that happens in this book. Wow, was I so jealous of the characters for getting to eat all the delicious sounding baked goods. I wish there had been a part at the end with recipes for some of the goodies. There are also a few bits dealing with a baking blog which I obviously loved as well.

I do feel though that this book had a lot going on and the ending still had some strings of story still left undone. I wish this book had been more focused on the romance and just one or two other of the side conflicts/dramas that happened. By having so much in the story it made it almost impossible for Lord to wrap it all up in a cohesive way.

This was a charming story of two High School Seniors who find themselves caught up in a Twitter war between their two companies. What starts out as trying to one up the competition turns into so much more than either had intended including a fan base of followers.

Pepper has done what she could to be the best at everything she sets her mind to including grades, swim team Captain, younger sister, daughter and recently has been asked to help send out Tweets for her Mom’s company which is called Big League Burger. She’s been feeling overwhelmed lately trying to keep up with everything else going on but doesn’t want to disappoint her Mom so finds herself caught up in an unexpected Twitter war with another company who has accused her company of stealing their famous grilled cheese that has a secret ingredient. Pepper chooses to fight back with some rather snarky comments and also develops unlikely friendships with two people that she hadn’t expected to like.

Jack has grown up in New York, working at his family’s local deli known as Girl Cheesing, trying to figure out if he wants to take over the family business, often feeling in the shadow of his identical twin Ethan, is a part of the swim team and enjoys playing around with developing apps during his free time. When he sees that Big League Burger appears to have stolen his beloved Grandma’s grilled cheese recipe, he takes to Twitter and finds himself caught up in the craziness of going toe to toe with Big League. What starts out as getting back at them for appearing to steal the grilled cheese turns into something much bigger than expected and leads him down quite the interesting adventure including becoming friends with an unlikely person.

This book was full of snark, fluffiness, the power of friendship, adorable shipping between the Twitter fans of both companies and just a general fun book to read. Jack and Pepper are adorable and I loved watching their friendship grow as well as seeing both realize their dreams while also how important family is to them.

I highly recommend checking out this book if you’re looking for a fun read that does have some romance in and plenty of healthy debate.

This book was so ridiculously cheesy that it was adorable. I mean, the two main characters names are Pepper and Jack, and their two restaurants are feuding over grilled cheese. It doesn’t gat any cheesier than that. 😉
The book follows our two main characters as they battle head-to-head in a twitter war over a grilled cheese recipe. As they grow into restaurant enemies over Twitter, they become friends in school, and develop feelings for each other over Weazel, the anonymous app Jack creates.
Throughout the novel, the sexual tension grows between the characters. I loved their banters and the “enemies-to-lovers” aspect. Both characters reflect two sides of teens that have to grow up with expectations set by their parents. Both teens also experience the societal expectations of high school.
Outside of high school and friend groups, both Pepper and Jack work along side their parents to help run their family businesses. Pepper’s mother was not one of my favourite characters. I found her to be whiny and act more like a child than the teenagers did. Her attitude was closure to that of a stereotypical teenager than her own teenage daughter. I found that the mother/daughter fight was resolved too quickly and under the wrong circumstances.
It would have been nice to the characters interact in a Big League Burger restaurant, like we got to see with Girl Cheesing deli. I did, however, like the atmosphere the deli provided and Jack’s bond with his family. A physical appearance of Pepper’s father would have been a nice surprise.
Overall, the book was very adorable and would make a great read for someone looking for a light contemporary romance to read maybe during the summer.
My rating for this book: 4.25/5

Pepper and Jack! I devoured this book - pun intended! I love love love the rom/com era we are reading in these days. This book was sweet and funny and contemporary without being too much. The romantic tension was great and the characters were written in a way that readers can definitely picture. I enjoyed this one a lot.

SO CUTE!!!

Again I find myself asking why I don't read YA more often! This book was just what I needed and was the perfect reminder of why I love Young Adult Contemporary books so much! Jack and Pepper's story made me laugh, swoon, and even get a little teary eyed.

Tweet Cute, is as much a star-crossed romance as it is a story of seniors in high school dealing with the pressures of college and family expectations. These things are presented in an extremely realistic way and I felt all the pressure and stress right along with Jack and Pepper. The addition of the massive "Twitter" war was refreshing and I love when authors bring in social media as it is such a big part of most of our lives.

I absolutely loved watching these two connect in the most unusual of circumstances and then become friends and slowly watch their feelings grow into something more. This had all of my favorite tropes packed into one: opposites attract, slow burn, and friends-to-lovers.

I am in complete shock that this is a debut novel! I absolutely can not wait for more by this author and I know I will devour her next work right up!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go eat some grilled cheese and sweets!

Grateful to have received a complimentary ARC copy to honestly review.

I knew I had to get my hands on Emma Lord's debut from the moment I first heard about it. Not only did it sound adorable, but it also has a bunch of elements that I'm unashamedly a complete sucker for. We've got teens with jobs, teens on the internet, and anonymous correspondence. I just had to see how all of these elements would come together in one book.

I have to say, Tweet Cute completely met my expectations and lives up to its title. This book is so sticking cute. First of all, I absolutely loved the relationship between Pepper and Jack. I'm all in for fictional relationships with a fair amount of snark, and these two can really deliver. I really enjoyed how this book had Jack and Pepper interacting on multiple platforms. It was fun to see how their relationship developed when they both knew with whom they were interacting and when they didn't.

But Tweet Cute isn't all fluff, Jack and Pepper have some family issues that make this book both a little more serious and a little more meaty. Both teens are part of families with big expectations. They are trying to navigate the tricky road of being true to themselves and wanting to please the people they love. I knew that, before the end of the book, the characters would not only have to face the feelings they had for one another, but would also have to have a serious heart to heart with their respective families.

All of this takes place in the fast-paced, private school, New York setting, where the big franchise is pitted against the downtown deli. I love a good New York setting, and, as an overachiever and former high school athlete, I found Pepper's character to be very relatable.

If you like baking (or eating) desserts, if you love New York, if you are a swimmer or a diver, if you can't resist a good grilled cheese, or, if you just enjoy a cute teen romance, you might want to check out this book.

Tweet Cute by Emma Lord is a wonderful young adult book, that I really enjoyed. Pepper's family owns a fast food burger chain, and Jack's family owns a deli. The two communicate through tweets, not knowing who the other one is. This book is a young adult version of You Got Mail, which I loved. I highly recommend this book, and will be reading more by this author.
I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

A cute take of the Shop Around the Corner theme with the addition of social media. This book will do well in my library for teens that are looking for a light romance. Would buy for my library.

Hey you! Yes, you! Do you like Nora Ephron movies (particularly You’ve Got Mail), Romeo and Juliet, grilled cheese sandwiches, New York City, stories about family relationships, and cute romance? Do Twitter wars make you laugh (or scoff)? If you answered yes to any (or all) of the above questions, then this is the book for you!

From the book jacket:

"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."

This book is delightful. If you, like me, live in a place where the winter weather is just a little too dark and cold for your liking these days, this book is a sweet little refuge from the winter muck. It’s filled with quippy dialogue, strong family relationships, and a very real commentary on how our culture of “busyness” and over-functioning affects the lives of young people. Add to that the fact that there are a variety of plot points in this storyline and that Emma Lord somehow finds a way to resolve all of them in a satisfying manner, and you have a solid case for picking this story up.

With rotating perspectives and complex family dynamics, this book really gives you a sense of the depth of these characters and their interior lives. I especially appreciated how the author uses Weazel, an anonymous chat app used only by members of Jack and Pepper’s high school, as a way to illuminate the dynamics of personal and public personas. The question of who we’re willing to be vulnerable with (and why) is raised by this book, and is an invitation to self-examination that isn’t just for young adults.

Is this book cheesy? Yes! (It’s about grilled cheese, after all.) But it’s also about how we choose to participate in the unfolding of our own lives, about how we show up to the relationships that matter most to us, and about how quickly we throw that all away for the narratives and expectations that the world hands to us.

Overall I give this book 4 out of 5 stars, and I hope you’ll give it a try!

Tweet Cute was an amazingly fast and fun read. It had elements of surprise and I loved the modern spin on a traditional "meet cute" trope.

I really loved the dynamic between Pepper and Jack. The quiet, "goody-goody" and the loud, class clown. I can definitely relate to Pepper because I was the quiet type in school. Not exactly the overachiever like she was, but I still didn't like to do anything that could potentially have consequences and played it relatively safe.

However, Jack was also relatable because of his love for playing around with programming. I really enjoyed how Emma had a character whose hobby was in creating something digitally. The millennial generation definitely all had those times where we were coding in MySpace or Tumblr where HTML/CSS is something you just picked up because it was what you did. I started when I was 13 because I had an interest and found out I was pretty good at it.

Twitter is also such a huge part of culture these days. I enjoyed that there was a big "battle" between a multibillion dollar brand and a small town gem. It was also extremely relatable with Pepper, who is not of age or actually employed by her parents company, having to be the social media brains to be relevant.

I love that in the end, Pepper and Jack are the mature ones of this story. It was like in a Disney show where the parents are just ridiculous, but it was very realistic in that sometimes adults can be jaded or get so caught up in themselves that they forget everything and everyone around them.

This story is not only an intelligent "meet cute", but also a good look into the modern technology-based culture of today. I gave it 4 stars.

Not a cheesy romance at all! This is already one of my top favorite reads of 2020, and what a way to kick it off! I loved this book - lots of witty dialog, tweeting, delicious food, and of course, high school drama. I also love that it's kind of a "You've Got Mail" retake in a whole new updated way - Girl and Boy meet in a "chat", start falling for each other without knowing who the other is, while in the real world they are not only competing at school, but also with their families businesses over a grilled cheese sandwich on Twitter where they pretty much feel like they hate each other. So classic.

Pepper is a strong, Type "A" personality who is not only dealing with the demands of keeping up in a private school, but also with her family's demands to help with their business on Twitter. Jack is also dealing with being in the shadow of his twin, and again, dealing with his family's demands to help with their business. Both have so much in common, but only via an anonymous chat do they see how they really connect.

So, so much fun reading this book. Highly recommend for a quick, fun read. I gobbled this one up in a few hours - I couldn't put it down!

Note: I received an advanced copy of this book from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

This was so cute! I love a good rivals-fall-in-love story.
Pepper and Jack were both precious lil jellybeans and they really brought the sass in their twitter war, which was a ton of fun to read about. I also appreciated the good divorce representation. Not all divorces are bitter and hateful, and it was nice to see how Pepper's parents were able to co-parent like mature adults.
If you enjoy a bit of YA good-natured smartass-ery like myself, this is definitely worth a read.

Happy Release day to Tweet Cute!

This book is just what the title says! Its a cute fun read. I usually shy away from romance, but this was so much fun to read. Its a teen version of You've Got Mail but replace books with Food and older adults with adorable younger ones. :)

Its sweet, its funny, its INNOCENT! That's right. The love story is innocent and refreshing! Its been a while since I've read such a refreshing book like this!

Unfortunately this was a DNF . for me. It's a case of it's me not the book. I loved the premise but hated the high school scenes and forgot this is YA book. Again it's not the book, it's me.

This book is so wonderful! I’ve been reading a lot of YA lately and this is for sure at the top!

I loved that both teens are seniors (I prefer my YA romances to been at the top end of the age range) and that the theme of exploring who you are, while trying to deal with parental pressure and expectations was done so well.

Jack and Pepper have such deliciously delightful banter, they click and connect over so many things! I loved that their relationship was so multi-layered and that even though they have a twitter war going on – they were keeping it up because it was fun for them!

Honestly, I just really really enjoyed their characters – I loved that they weren't whiny or bratty, but were mature seniors who had their families best interest at heart, even if it wasn’t what they wanted to do!

There were so many things that I was frustrated with, mostly Pepper’s mum, that when I twist came – suddenly, it all made sense! And I wasn’t frustrated anymore but rather in love with how it all worked out!

One of my big loves of this book was the baking blog that Pepper ran with her sister and the crazy creations that they came up with, and how everything she made, just made Jack’s mouth water! After all I was always told “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach!” And this delightful story proved that to be true!

Thank you to Net Galley and Wednesday Books for a copy in exchange for an honest review! Available today and I highly encourage you to get a copy if you love YA!

Synopsis in Comments!

Tweet Cute

**received an ARC in exchange for an honest review**

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This debt book from Emma Lord is a definite must read, especially if you are looking for a new author. This book is charming and will have you hooked from beginning to end.

Tweet Cute is about two teens who unknowingly get into a tweet war with one another, not knowing they are fighting one another online. As the story shapes around their war, they begin to spend time with one another and see that maybe what they have been looking for is right in front of them. But once they find out that they have been fighting one another online can they continue to be friends in real life? Or will they let the outside pressures that are ruling their feud come between them?

“All is fair in love and cheese”⁣
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Pepper is the swim team captain and overall perfectionist. Which is probably why her mother, the CEO of Big League Burger, has her managing their Twitter. Pepper has been able to squeeze by without anyone knowing who she really is or her family legacy ⁣
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Jack is the class clown who is always getting mistaken for his identical twin brother. Jack also happens to be a huge pain in Peppers side. Jack is in a few of Pepper’s classes and is on the dive team. His parents also happen to be the owners of Girl Cheesing. So one day when Jack sees that Big League has obviously stolen one of their recipes, he calls them out on Twitter from the Girl Cheesing account. Which then gets retweeted by a famous pop star and the Twitter feud has officially began. ⁣
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Now Pepper and Jack’s Twitter feud is viral. As the viral feud continues, their online shenanigans start to deepen their relationship online and also in an anonymous chat app Jack built. Neither of them expected to feel develop feelings for eachother. ⁣
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What an amazing, all-in-the-feels YA romance! PepperJack is literally the cutest couple name (and possibly the cheesiest!). I love a good pun. This YA had all the cute, awkward, and sweetness of young love. Jack had insecurities about being his brothers shadow that hit me right in the heart. I loved that he felt seen by Pepper because she always knew he was Jack and not Ethan when no one else but his grandma and parents could tell them apart. Also, huge shout out to @wednesday_design team for such an adorable and eye catching cover! I’m obsessed!! ⁣
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Thank you @wednesdaybooks for the ARC! And Happy Pub Day! This book is now available! ⁣

Thanks NetGalley for the Preview!

I have to admit that I picked this book to follow a heavier more serious novel and it was a breath of fresh air! I loved the witty banter and sneaky jokes. I found myself loving this book so much I read it in a day! I loved Pepper's fierce personality and her slow realization that like many other teenagers she is just taking a little time to figure it all out. Jack was so down to earth and embodied what it's like to have sibling rivalry. I will certainly be reading this one again!

If you could take the warmest, happiest, and Hupplepuff-iest moments in life and turn it into a book, you would get the spectacular story that is Tweet Cute. 😍 I have been non-stop raving about for months because the second that I started reading I fell in love with all the characters and fun plotline. This book easily became an instant favorite because it has all the cute fluffiness of enemies-to-lovers, fun family relationships, delicious food descriptions, and classic high school drama. 🥪🍰

Tweet Cute follows the perspectives of two of my new favorite characters, Pepper and Jack. (i know it’s literally the cutest thing ever) Pepper is the all-around perfectionist who not only balances the demanding responsibilities of high school, but she also manages the social media of Big League Burger, a national fast food chain and her family’s company. Jack is the class clown, secret genius, and wholesome underdog, and when he’s not hiding in the shadows of his popular twin brother, he’s working his family’s local deli. When suspicions arise that Big League Burger has stolen the local deli’s famous grilled cheese recipe, it’s time for war...Twitter war.

Enemies-to-lovers? ✅ Yummy food descriptions? ✅ Anonymous flirting over text message? ✅ Emma Lord manages to take all of the ~best tropes~ in the history of YA Fiction and expertly weaves them all together in a show-stopping retelling of You’ve Got Mail. There will never be a dull moment in the story, and the writing itself is extremely fun to read. All of the food descriptions made me incredibly hungry, and never in my life have I ever wanted a grilled cheese sandwich more. Pepper and her sister also run a baking blog together so we get to see tons of amazing treats to brighten your mood. (i’m still on a mission to find the recipe for monster cake!!)

I have SO MUCH LOVE for this book and all of its characters. Pepper and Jack’s chemistry is just *mwah* magnificent, and I loved watching them fall for each other slowly both online and offline. They manage to challenge and encourage each other as enemies turned friends, and it was just so!! darn!! cute!!! 😭❤️ Even more, the book explores greater themes of family, competitive culture in school, and exploring your passions despite other people’s expectations for you.

If you want to experience happiness through a book, you need to read this story now. I promise you will not have a single regret (like 99.99% sure) because it just made my heart soar and eyes water from happiness. I am blown away by Emma Lord’s story-telling, and I can not wait for her next novel. If it’s anything like Tweet Cute, I know it’s going to become an instant favorite!