📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Tweet Cute
AUTHOR: Emma Lord
@dilemmalord
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐ ⭐ (Changed from review video!!!)

This was one of my most anticipated reads for 2020 and it did not disappoint. The characters were wonderfully complex, and there was a community aspect that I loved. Once I started reading, I did not want to put it down. Originally when I did my on the spot review video, I gave it 4 stars, but after thinking about it awhile, I would totally read this book again, which is my 5 star premise.

What I love about the story is that there are no black and white, right and wrong sides of the conflict. It is very grey and there are definitely distinct viewpoints to make this story entertaining. Plus, it made me want baked goods and grilled cheese… FOR DAYS.




Short Synopsis (abbreviate from Goodreads):
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.

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

Tweet Cute is, as the title implies, a "meet cute" YA novel that takes a modern spin on classic love stories. We meet Pepper and Jack (yes, destined to become PepperJack)-two NYC high school seniors who attend a demanding private school chalk full of overachievers. Pepper, chief among the overachievers, is the daughter/heiress of Big League Burger while Jack's parents run a family-owned deli. Most of Pepper's classmates are unaware of Pepper's link to Big League Burger, which, until a few years ago, was a small restaurant in Nashville, Once franchised, Pepper's mom moved both Pepper and her older sister Paige to NYC, where she became the CEO of BLB corporate. Pepper packs AP classes, swim-team captain responsibilities and a baking blog with her sister into her crazy schedule while her mom relies on her to also help run BLB's social media.

Jack, a tech wizard, helps run his family's deli while twin brother Ethan is busy running student council, the diving team and photo-ops with his boyfriend Stephen. Feeling the weight of family responsibilities, Jack's true love is developing apps which ultimately led to the creation of a school-only messaging/social media app where everyone's identity is hidden at first. And, everyone is on it, even the elusive Pepper.

Social media drives much of the story, as a Twitter war between Pepper and Jack's family businesses ignites, with Pepper and Jack at the helm of their respective twitter accounts. Off Twitter, Pepper is chatting with the anonymous Wolf on the school's app that Jack created. While Wolf's identity is predictable, the growing relationship between Pepper and Wolf and Pepper and Jack is charming and delightful.

The Twitter war seemed a little far-fetched in that a CEO of a multimillion dollar burger company would pressure her teenage daughter to manage the company's Twitter account while simultaneously pressuring her to maintain her straight-A average and navigate Ivy-League college interviews. That is where the story felt a little flat to me, along with a timeline perspective that alternated between the present and then jumping into the past after we already knew the outcome from the present perspective.

A very cute, if familiar, story with a modern twist. I think most YA readers will really enjoy.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and author for this ARC in exchange for my honest feedback.

Emma Lord’s Tweet Cute is just as delightful as its title implies. Pepper Evans is drowning under the weight of school work, her swim captain responsibilities, and pressure from her mother to help with Big League Burger’s Twitter account, their once-small family business. Pepper’s only solace has been her correspondence with “Wolf” a classmate she’s been messaging on an anonymous app for students at her prep school. Unbeknownst to anyone, Jack is the creator of said app and is Pepper’s mysterious penpal, a fact that he himself doesn’t even know. When Big League Burger tweets about a new sandwich that’s way too similar to one that’s been on Jack’s family’s deli menu for years, a Twitter war starts between the two company accounts. When Pepper and Jack end up striking up an unlikely friendship in real life, it’s only a matter of time before truth about their online personas comes out.

Pepper is the very definition of an overachiever. She’s spent the last few years of her life trying to fit into this new world her mother brought her to after the company’s franchise expansion. Her father is still back in Nashville, running the first Big League Burger. Her home life hasn’t been the best; though her parents had an amicable divorce, her older sister, who is off at college, has a rocky relationship with their mom. Pepper has always played peacemaker between the two and as a result hasn’t been able to stand up to her mother herself because she is afraid of ruining their relationship. She’s never developed any lasting relationships in this new place because she’s always felt out of place and fitting in in a superficial kind of way felt easier than finding out where she actually belonged.

Jack has always been the guy who goofs around too much, the guy who doesn’t have a lot of ambition. The truth is he’s been living in his twin’s shadow for so long, it’s always seemed easier to embrace the narrative than counteract it. Even his parents seem to believe that Ethan is meant for bigger and better things. On the other hand, Jack is already stuck behind the family’s deli counter, making him the perfect person to stay behind and take over when the time comes. Jack’s been keeping his passion for app development a secret because why reveal this side of himself when everyone has already made up their minds about who he is? One of the bright spots in his life is his relationship with his grandma, who started Girl Cheesing. She is one of the only people he can really open up to and one that sees him for who he is and not just a less impressive version of his twin.

I love how organic Jack and Pepper’s friendship developed in this one. They are very different people and at first glance, you can’t see how the two would work but they do. Jack breaks through that very small bubble Pepper has made for herself and Pepper is one of the few people that not only sees Jack for who he is, but sees through all the things he’s pretending to be. The storyline, while familiar, never felt like it was too predictable. I expected to get to know both characters more through their online interactions, but was happy to see that the novel focused more on how their relationship developed in real life. I love when contemporaries give us multiple POVs and even more when it’s well done. Tweet Cute‘s dual POV is well-done. The author does a wonderful job of dividing chapters and giving both characters their own worlds and hang ups that it didn’t feel like it was more Pepper or Jack’s story. They each had their own journeys that just happened to converge. Both perspectives and characters were equally engaging and I loved that both had their own lessons to learn apart from each other.

Emma Lord’s Tweet Cute is an adorable, sweet, satisfying contemporary with characters with undeniable likeability and chemistry.

I have so many things to say about this boooooook! I’m obsessed. I was immediately hooked. So hooked that I stayed up until 5:30 AM to freaking finish it. I just couldn’t help myself. I fell in love with these two characters and didn’t have the willpower to put the book down until I knew how their story panned out.

The Amazing
This book has one of my most favorite very specific book (tropes? plot points?) which is when two characters are speaking to each other over a period of time, not knowing who the other is. Whether it be secret pen pals, anonymous emailing, or, in this case, an app who lets our characters Jack and Pepper chat anonymously with people from their school. Once I found out that was the foundation for this book I. Was. Sold.

On top of that, this is also an enemies to lovers plot. Hellllooo??? It’s near perfect! The tension between Pepper and Jack in the beginning of the book is so delicious I was creepily grinning ear to ear reading their back and forth banter. I may have inwardly (an outwardly) squealed a couple times while reading this book. I am not ashamed.

I think this book is the perfect mix of funny banter, swoony romantic tension, and serious moments. I don’t know how Emma Lord fit so much into one book and still made it an exceptionally enjoyable and fast read. I *cried* at least two times while reading this???? (I’ll be honest, my emotions may have been high due to the sleep deprivation, but the tears still happened so I’m counting it) I feel like I haven’t ridden such an intense emotional roller coaster in a book for a long long time. There are laugh-out-loud jokes and twitter memes aplenty, somehow spliced perfectly with more serious topics i.e. family issues, life after high school panic.

A Must-Read if you’re into:
- enemies to lovers
- NYC teen livin’
- twitter drama (lol)
- experimental baking
- secret pen pals

Abandoned at 12%. Witty YA is a love of mine, but I could not get interested in this one. The witty tweets just didn't seem witty to me at all, and the characters weren't likable.

Quick somebody at Netflix, make this a movie!! This is so amazingly cute. This is a #YA romance that I fell in love with as soon as I started reading. Two high school kids attending a competitive private school in NYC are the focus of this story. Their lives intersect in multiple ways and I got such a kick out of seeing their different levels of interaction. Classmates, chatting over an anonymous app that they do not realize who the other person is, a hilarious twitter war between their family owned companies... This is lighthearted escapism at its best. If you are looking for a feel good read I recommend this highly. ☺️ My only disappointment is that I would have liked to have had a scene where we read the parents hashing out their own sh@!. However I’m not too disappointed as this is a #yabook so the parents relationships are not the primary focus. They more hover on the periphery. 🤷🏼‍♀️

This is the cutest, most heartwarming book I've read in a long time. I had a big, stupid smile plastered on my face for the entirety of the book.

Tweet Cute is about two teens, Pepper and Jack, who both manage the Twitter accounts of their families's respective restaurants. The two are aquantainces at their elite prep school and don't really interact with each other until their family businesses force them together. After Pepper's family restaurant turned corporation, Big League Burger (comparable to Burger King), seemingly steals a recipe from Jack's family's small diner, the two teens start a Twitter war. Soon the Twitter war between the two companies turns into flirty banter as Jack and Pepper grow closer and closer in real life and the line between the internet and reality becomes blurry.

Oh my goodness was this book adorable and so authentic. Nothing about this book felt forced, not even the Twitter war or the pop culture references. I truly felt like Emma Lord understands what it feels like to be a teen in the late 2010s. Pepper and Jack deal with a lot of pressure from their parents and the education system, and I think Lord handled it really well. The pop culture references and web stuff was also handled really well; I never once felt like Lord was trying to be "hip" by using references she didn't understand.

I also loved how soft the relationship is in the book. Pepper and Jack aren't overly dramatic, and my heart would melt the more they fell for each other. It was so cute!! I was smiling and giggling like an idiot. I fell in love with this book and how cute it was.

If I had one complaint, it would be that the side characters fizzled out near the end. The relationship between Jack and Pepper took full stage as the story went on, leaving other characters out of the story. I would have liked to see more of the family members in particular, but I still loved this book. This tiny complaint did nothing to deter me from giving the book 5 stars.

Go read this book if you love cute contemporary romances!

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's press for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review

A public Twitter war, big business vs. small, a private on-line friendship, and coming of age made for a sparkling, heartfelt teenage rom com that I was delighted to delve into.
Review

Tweet Cute begins by introducing zealous Pepper who is in a frenzy to be at the top of her game at the uptown private school she attends, perform a balancing act to keep her broken family connected by the slender ties that is her, and meeting up to her mom’s expectation to help with her business’ social media accounts. Pepper’s moment of sanity is the Weazel app where she has an online friend who really gets her. That friendship becomes more crucial as a Twitter war takes off when a small mom and pop deli claims her mom’s franchise boosted their original grilled cheese sandwich recipe. When she finally meets ‘Wolf’ in real life will he live up to her hopes?

Jack is the school’s goof off. It’s self defense to yuck it up and pretend not to care because his identical twin has already cornered the market on president of the class, cool-crowd king, and most popular. People only get excited about him when they mistake him for his twin. No one knows he came up with the Weazel app and only one person at school ever really sees Jack instead of just his brother’s twin except Pepper Evans- this is why he likes to tweak her tail and make her pay attention again. He started a Twitter war that has blown up their family deli’s following and now he can only ride out this wave as well as what is to come when Pepper learns who Wolf is.

I adored the “You’ve Got Mail’ movie and I was tickled to see the similarities even the fun gender swap of Jack representing the small business and Pepper the larger though she is also from humbler roots and remembers the struggles of her family-owned mom and pop. It dives into their stories swiftly in a dual narration which I was glad to have so I could get to know them both and their perspectives. It sometimes goes alternate chapter, but will also stick with one for a time to finish a thought before swapping back which I thought was much easier to keep my focus. It kept moving and read easily and quickly.

There are real life issues from teen struggles, family splits, finding one’s self, and more going on, but it is all surrounded by heartwarming and many times hilarious scenes. Both teens have wry humor and I felt my age a few times with the fresh and up to the minute thinking and dialogue of this story set against the modern teen life and school scene. I found some of it a bit unreal particularly the mom and the big burger corporation dependent on snarky Pepper to save the day on Twitter and even the mom’s expectations and actions, but it was only a minor distraction.

Pepper and Jack (and oh my was I thinking Pepperjack cheese the whole time with the whole grilled cheese sandwich war) had great chemistry as hostile acquaintances in real life and adorable friendly first romance in Weazel. They’re both engaging and I enjoyed that they had a lot in common where it counted and saw importance in the same things.

The surrounding circle of family and school group played their roles and I liked seeing Pepper and Jack interact with all in their circle of relationships. There were conflicts and the big reveal to keep up the tension, but it was relatively low-angst and had a sweet, heartwarming quality that made it easy to read.

All in all, I enjoyed this one and hope the author has more coming really soon. YA Contemporary isn’t my go-to genre, but I thought this one was abso-fab and can recommend it to mid teens on up to teens at heart.

My thanks to St. Martin’s Press for providing the eARC to read in exchange of an honest review.

If you liked Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston, then you MUST read Tweet Cute by Emma Lord. What a DEBUT NOVEL! ♥♥♥♥♥ A modern, funny, charming take on You've Got Mail..

› Pepper is smart, the swim team captain and perfectionist. She grew up in Nashville with her parents and older sister, Paige until her parent's burger restaurant became a chain, her parents divorced, and she moved to Manhattan with her mom and Paige. Her parents are amicably divorced, her mom is launching Big League Burger internationally, Paige is at UPENN, and has a non-existent relationship with their mother. Pepper and Paige run a Baking Blog together, which acts as a great way for them to have a close sister relationship. Pepper is struggling to balance her school work with the rest of her responsibilities and often gives in to her mother's requests due to the rocky relationship her mom has with Paige. So when their mom asks Pepper to take over the Twitter for Big League Burger (BLB), she gives in even though she knows her plate is already over-flowing.

› Pepper loves to swim and it helps her de-stress, along with chatting on the school APP called Weazel. No one knows who created the APP. Every student is given a random username, giving the kids the ability to chat with others anonymously. Pepper loves to chat with one person in particular - Wolf.

› Jack is one of Pepper's school colleagues who loves to drive her crazy. They don't like each other at all and have no idea that JACK IS WOLF (this is not a spoiler, you learn this pretty quickly). Jack's family expects him to take over the family deli business and he hasn't had the courage to tell them that what he really wants to do is get involved in coding and APP development. OH...Did I mention Jack/Wolf is the secret-creator of Weazel? Ya...no one has any idea how good Jack is at APP development, not even his twin brother, Ethan.

› Ethan is gay, student council president, dive team captain. Jack feels like Ethan is his parents favourite.

› A Twitter war erupts between BLB and Jack's family Deli after BLB tweets about a new grilled cheese recipe - Grandma's Special. It's the SAME "Grandma's Special" recipe which the Deli has been selling for decades. Jack takes over the Deli Twitter and begins a witty battle with BLB Twitter. Jack and Pepper have no idea that they are the ones behind the Twitter battle.

› I love how the story is told from Pepper and Jack's perspective. Every time one sends a tweet then they see each other in school having conversations not knowing that they are the ones behind the twitter war AND that JACK is WOLF! OMG I couldn't get enough of it.

› There is some swearing and kissing, but Tweet Cute is appropriate for teens. I wouldn't have a problem with my twelve-year-old reading it.

"But sometimes even shouting into a void feels better than just staring into it."


› Final Thoughts
• Tweet Cute was the perfect First Read for 2020. I can't wait to buy a copy and read it again! This is a modern, CUTE, funny Rom-Com with fantastic characters, interesting family dynamics, delicious food, and healthy relationships. BIG thanks to Meghan at St. Martin's Press/Wednesday Books for the complimentary digital ARC. Highly recommend!

Thank you to Netgalley and publisher for the complimentary copy in exchange for my honest review.

*Quotes taken from an ARC copy and subject to change*

This is a really cute YA romcom set in New York, very much rooted in the modern world, in which Twitter, Instagram and other apps seem to have taken over our lives. It was definitely a fun read and I enjoyed it for sure.

I liked both Pepper and Jack as characters and we get both perspectives throughout. The pacing was good and the food aspect was mouth watering at times! Of course it was predictable, but in this kind of story I really do not mind that.

Did I absolutely love it? Maybe not quite, but there was nothing I particularly disliked about it either. It was just a tad too fluffy for me, but I should have known that going in. This is the kind of novel you can simply curl up with and enjoy without having to think too much, and we all need those kind of books in our lives!

I would definitely recommend this to anyone who loves a cute romance with likeable characters.

This book was so good it is now 3am and I have read the majority of this story in one sitting. It was hilarious, well paced and beyond refreshing. I have literally not read a contemporary in years And am beyond thrilled I took the leap on this. My heart is a puddle. I love the characters and their stories so much. The story was plotted so well I was surprised and impressed by the different twists it took. The romance was woven in nicely from how many angles it was built from. I wish some characters (ETHAN) experienced more consequences for their actions but I’m overlooking it due to my new devotion to tweet cute.

Thank you for this advanced copy in exchange for an honest review! Can’t wait to buy this one. I want to read it again already.

So first of all, I really liked the style of Tweet Cute. The wit and romance with the hint of backstory reminds me so much of Jane Austen. Exactly what you were expecting me to say, right?

But let me justify my statement! First, our two main characters, Pepper and Jack. Which is as Austen-like as it gets, folks. Pepper is as her name suggests, fiesty and full of good humor. But she’s also relentless and reliable.
Jack seems like her opposite but is he really? Pepper tells us Jack is obnoxious and a prankster and just not her friend by any stretch of the imagination.

But then we also have Jack’s chapters. And they’re lively and full of spunk and a touch of self-deprecation. Maybe Jack isn’t everything Pepper thinks.

And another Austen-like elements, Twins! Jack and Ethan are hilariously different, yet identical twins. Which brings in another fun element – family dynamics. Tweet Cute would not be the warm story it is without the wholesome addition of family.

Even if I didn’t quite trust all the family. Ethan feels vaguely Machiavellian to me. I hate to be a Slytherin reader but something about Ethan never sits right with me. Maybe it’s the fact that he gets out of helping around the cafe, or how he belittles Jack, or even how easily his charm entices a crowd. It just feels like he’s a villain in training. And I mean Jack says something like that when he mentions that Ethan is probably going to be a politician one day.

and for just one more Austenish part of this books – lots of backstory! And it’s woven in so well. It was one of those things that while I was reading, I thought, there HAS to be a backstory with this. And I was right!

But I couldn’t guess what the backstory was. Which was really fun. I kept wondering and trying to figure the answers out but Emma Lord cleverly keeps you guessing until the big reveal.

And some other may

Tweet Cute is a retelling of the 90’s classic, You’ve Got Mail, and it may be even better than its predecessor. Enter Pepper, a country girl at heart living in the Big Apple where her mother is the CEO of a big restaurant chain called Big League Burger. Even after four years of living in NYC and going to her fancy private school Pepper still feels like she doesn’t fit in with her peers and dedicates all of her time making sure she gets the best grades, keeps her position as the captain of the swim team, and, above all else, doesn’t disappoint her mother like her sister did. So, When her mother asks her to tweet back to this small deli who has accused BLB of stealing their famous grilled cheese recipe Pepper doesn’t want to say no.

Jack can’t believe this burger chain would stoop so low as to steal HIS grandmother’s famous grilled cheese recipe and so against his father’s direct orders Jack decides to take matters into his own hands and tweet back to BLB’s snarky twitter posts and before he knows it a Twitter war has begun with half the world for an audience. All’s fair in love and cheese…

Unbeknownst to both Pepper and Jack they are also speaking to each other anonymously on an app called Weazel. An app that Jack made for the student body at their high school and has purposely tweaked to keep their real names a secret from one another but when they start having feelings that go beyond friends Jack wonders if he should just out themselves to one another once and for all.

"At some point, it stopped being a war and started being a game."

Above all else what I really find this book to be is relatable. Underneath the snarky twitter war and sarcastic teenagers are two young adults struggling under the pressure that society has put them under. The need to be the best at everything, the constant competition between themselves and other students, and also the expectations of parents. Although success is important it shouldn’t be at the expense of friendship, letting loose once in a while, and having heart to hearts with the people you care about. Emma Lord did a masterful job of showing a relatable and realistic portrayal of what a teen is facing in today’s society. Many teens, and even older adults, will be able to see themselves in this story and that’s a big deal.

I also love how Emma Lord put her own little spin on the characters. Let’s face it, we see teens in high school as our main setting in a million books today. But I’ve never read about a a young country girl moved to the big city who also happens to be from a middle class family and now is living among the elite of the social classes. Those are big changes and also a huge step away from what we expect in YA contemporary. This also makes it so much easier for Pepper to relate to Jack, who is one of the very few students at their private high school not to come from money. It’s an interesting take.

"I’m starting to think we’re the only ones who weren’t born with silver spoons in multiple orifices."

On a lighter note, this book is simply adorable. I love Pepper and Jack. I think both of their characters are extremely likable and believable. I think adding the social media aspect into the book makes it more relevant, even if I didn’t care for that aspect as much as other parts of the story. Another awesome part of this story is the baking blog between Pepper and her sister, Paige. The names of their baked goods were brilliant, made me laugh out loud, and just made the book more wholesome. This book also portrays a good example of expectation vs. reality. What is expected of a person based on the box they’ve been shoved in versus where that persons interests truly lie and what makes them happy. The romance is so sweet and I was rooting for #Pepperjack the whole time!

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

I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone who loves a feel-good, laugh-out-loud, YA contemporary romance. This one truly stands out from the masses by being unique, relevant, and relatable.

4.5⭐ This book was just freaking adorable. It totally kept a smile on my face, and I didn't want to put it down.

1 - I loved the family dynamics in the book. Between Pepper's divorced parents and the tension it caused with her sister, and Jack's sibling rivalry with his twin, I found it all very relatable.
2 - Pepper and Jack were both well developed, and thoroughly likeable characters. Their snark in their initial interactions, how they got to know each other, and got past their initial assumptions was super sweet.
3 - The supporting characters, both friends and family, were fleshed out pretty well, especially considering the story was told from Jack and Pepper's perspectives. I'd have loved to see more of Grandma Belly though!

The cutest, sweetest and sassiest book I've read recently.
I love love love it. This book is engrossing amd it has the ability to suck you in and keep you there.
It gave me all the feels I needed and made me laugh a lot.
I would love to read more from this author.

Just like the title says, this is CUTE! And not in a way that is overly cheesy (ha) or cliche, but cute, sweet, and fun. Really enjoyed the alternating chapters between Pepper and Jack. I really felt that this helped character development, and it also allowed me to see things from each of their perspectives.

Thanks to Netgalley for the free ebook to review!

This one was adorable! I enjoy meet-cute and enemies-to-lovers so this YA version was so enjoyable!

Pepper and Jack are members of two rivaling family owned and operated restaurants who get into a Twitter war when Pepper’s family’s restaurant does something to target Jack’s family’s restaurant.

This book was adorable, sassy, and feisty all wrapped up into one!

All’s fair in love and cheese 🧀

This book was so cute! I thoroughly enjoyed it for several reasons:

1. Likable characters
2. Adorable romance
3. Naturally progressing relationship (wasn't forced or insta-lovey)
4. Hilarious dialogue
5. The "anonymously chatting to each other" plot
6. Grandma Belly and her sassy self

While I did really enjoy this book, there were a few things I would've liked to have seen, or a few things that I wish were done differently:

1. Grandma Belly - she was such a likable character that was so funny and sassy. I would've loved to have seen her as a main character, or just a more present character, especially since she founded the deli.
2. More diversity - I appreciate the few bits of diversity that were included in the story (Ethan and Pooja), but I wish there was more! I definitely got some vibes from some of the other characters (Paul and Paige) that I wish were explored more. Diversity in race, religion, or disability would've been a great addition to this story.
3. Character development - I honestly can't tell you what any of these characters look like except for Pepper having blonde hair. I would've loved some more description regarding the characters, because when I can't visualize the characters, I have a hard time picturing them and the story.
4. Better text and tweet formatting - texting and tweeting is such a huge part of this story, that I was shocked when there was no formatting for those sections, especially the texting portions. While reading the texting portions they either had a heading for each message for the text app, or they didn't have any sort of heading for regular texting. The regular texting is what was the hardest for me to follow because most of the time I couldn't tell who was saying what, what were actual messages and what was inner dialogue/narration. I had to go back a few times and reread each of those sections in order to figure out what was going on, because there wasn't a font change, spacing, or anything that helped differentiate those portions.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book and am looking forward to reading other books by Emma Lord. Also, make sure to have an endless supply of grilled cheese sandwiches and desserts handy because you will have some serious cravings!

“’Yeah. But it’s also—well, to be honest, this has been kind of good for business.’

Pepper’s brow furrows, that one little crease returning. ‘What, the tweets?’”

I cannot believe what a fun-tropey-lovey-silly-hilarious ride this book is! This is definitely the cutest thing I’ve read so far this year and it’s a read that will have anyone laughing their socks off. Mixing together the modern perils of social media with classic rom-com tropes, Tweet Cute creates a fun, but emotionally impactful story about finding what you’re good at, what you want to do in life, and the space between the two.

Tweet Cute is about Pepper and Jack. And that’s just getting started with the cheese jokes. When a misunderstood case of grilled cheese recipe theft occurs, Pepper and Jack take to their respective family’s food twitter account to hash out this rivalry on a viral scale. This gets really complicated because Pepper and Jack go to the same school, are secret pen pals to each other on an app called Weazel (unbeknoist to them) and generally get on each other’s nerves. This twitter feud takes them on a journey through their family’s expectations, their insecurities, and leads them to who they really are…and each other of course.

Going into a book like this, I expected the tropey stuff, but I did not see the memes coming! All the internet jokes were very funny and I throughly enjoyed them. Yes, some references were more dated than others, but honestly? It was a really solid depiction of how twitter goes down these days.

I also loved that the book put emphasis on how hard running a good social media is! I’m so tired!All the time! Most people think that running an Instagram or Twitter takes a few minutes, but in reality it’s hours of work! I loved how this book paid respect to the effort and didn’t sweep social media under the “people oughta talk to each other!” rug.

In terms of narrators? I can’t pick a favorite. Both Pepper and Jack were so good! I loved Pepper’s baking and weird dessert brain and Jack was very cool with all his tech stuff and general desire to make himself a nuisance to Pepper! They were very easy to ship. They had different and distinct family dynamics that overlapped, but were still individual to each character. I liked reading about their family dramas and I got genuinely upset with said families when things when south.

Warning! This book may make you hungry for: delicious grilled cheese, savory mac and cheese, and addictive desserts! There’s only so much food talk I can handle before I start craving everything on the page, but I have to say I’m very much craving a grilled cheese now.

The only thing I could possibly say against this book is that the concept is a bit too ridiculous. I love it, but yeah. What are the odds that a corporate twitter is run by essentially, one teenage girl? Who just happens to get in a massive twitter fight with her classmate? And they happened to also be chatting anonymously on a school app without suspecting a thing? It’s a lot of coincidences, but once you just suspend your disbelief, you’re solid.

TL;DR: Social Media Antics mixed with family drama that’s relatable at any age pair up to make this a heary-warming and hilarious story about getting your story straight and believing in your own capabilities.

first of all would like to thank the publisher for sending me a E-Arc of this book and for letting me be apart of the blog tour of this wonderful romance novel.

Tweet cute was just the cutest story ever and has all the elements in a romance novel that all/most people would love to read about and it will definitely make you go heart eyes over the two main characters we follow in this book.

Tweet cute follows pepper and Jack who online are currently in a twitter war against each other for their families big restaurent chains who are rivals, but under all this all is not as it seems as the two main characters who go to the same school have no idea that they are the ones that they are having this online and viral against each other. under the surface though we see pepper and jack also are speaking on an app created by jack called weasel which lets you talk anonymously to someone who is in their school for a certain time. so as the story unfolds we see all the trials and tribulations with what happens between the both of them and also the viral sensations of both their families Restaurants.

if your looking for a Romance novel and are looking for a story that will keep you hooked and leaving you wanting more and more from these characters and all their cuteness then you need to pick this book up ASAP!!! just be warned though while your reading this book get ready to imagine and read about all these amazing sounding recipes that Pepper talks about in this book.

recommend this book to everyone and very excited for more to come from Emma Lord and to see what more novels she hopefully has up her sleeve.

if this book interests you it will be available in stores on the 21st of January 2020