A sweet little rom-com that I definitely will be ordering for the high school library!
Okay, the tweeting was a little annoying, but I'm just old, as I was told by a teenager!

This was a cute YA, although sometimes I thought there was too much going on - tweets, anon texts, and IRL conversations. I also felt like it was a little too YA - perfect for high schoolers, but not something most adults would enjoy.

Thanks to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tweet Cute - Emma Lord
Out Jan 21st, 2020

Thank you to Wednesday Books and Netgalley for the complimentary eARC in exchange for an honest review.

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Tweet Cute follows the tale of teens Jack and Pepper, two seniors at a prestigious New York high school attempting to balance their extracurriculars and maintain straight A’s while striving to get admitted to Ivy League schools. Things are further complicated when they find themselves caught in the middle of a family business twitter war over which family restaurant is creator of an infamous grilled cheese sandwich.

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This was an adorable light hearted book, which was exactly the palette cleanser I have been craving after several thrillers and heavy reads! I enjoyed both Pepper and Jacks characters and found them very likeable. Tweet Cute is extremely cheesy - both figuratively and literally (the main plot is about a grilled cheese after all..) but in the best way! Oddly enough, despite the title being “Tweet Cute” I found the tweets were my least favourite part of the tale, although I love how Lord ties everything together. If you want to start your year off with a sweet, quick read, I highly recommend picking up Tweet Cute!

This book was so freaking cute! Pepper and Jack are some of the best ya contemporary characters I've read in awhile. If you're looking for a modern Romeo & Juliet with splashes of sarcastic humor, then this book is for you. Book also tackles expectations teens get (or feel) from parents and how it effects their life as a whole; Social media is also in the spot light in this book and how it is handled is well done. Recipes need to be added in this book once it's published because we need to know how to make all the delicious food in this book.

Reading Tweet Cute was like being thrown back into high school and the melodrama of being a teenager. Meeting Pepper and Jack was fantastic. These two are such bold characters in their own ways, and are very unapologetically themselves the entire novel. Seeing them banter and have these little crushes on each other is what makes the novel all the sweeter. Overall, teenage angst and an enemies to friends to lovers growth made this novel just so much better.

Full review on my blog come January 21st as part of the blog review!

My least liked part of the story, parents behaving badly who should have their social media account access taken away from them. Pepper and Jack were cute. I wish Jack had told Pepper right away that he was Wolf once he discovered her online identity. I wanted the parents to just encourage the kids to follow what they're passionate about instead of dragging into the family's businesses.

This book is a happy little bundle of froth. A story of an unlikely romance with a nice play on the social media obsession and a bunch of lovely little twists. Pepper and Jack come from different backgrounds and have different family lives. Pepper lives in an uptown apartment with her mum, her sister is away at college and does not get on with her mother. Pepper runs the social media account for the family business a national burger chain. She is a high achieving control freak. Jack works in the family business, a deli on the other side of town. He is a twin and has a close and loving extended family living with him. Jack has invented an app for the kids at school to chat on and this is how these two connect, but they don't know who they are on the app as it anonymises them. These two are good at water sports and are at the pool all the time. Opposites attract and you can see what is going to happen. Young love will bloom but it will take time and be fraught with difficulties.

I really enjoyed this book, it is full of quick one liners and witty banter. A winning book for the school library and one that will have lots of appeal. There is a lot going on and the pace is really good to keep you turning the pages. A great choice for romance fans.

Tweet Cute is the young adult novel I have been waiting for. Tweet Cute is the debut novel from Emma Lord and hits all the marks that I was looking for. 

Tweet Cute follows the story of Pepper and Jack. Pepper is the overachiever, swim team captain and overall perfectionist. Her life might be full of chaos, but the family business is doing better than ever. Then we've got Jack. Jack is the class clown and Pepper's mortal enemy. Between trying to escape his brother's shadow and keeping his family's business afloat, Jack's life is anything but easy. He has a love/hate relationship with the family business, but when the competitor comes out with a recipe that's a dead ringer for his grandma's, he'll stop at nothing to take his enemy down...

All's fair in love and war, and Tweet Cute was a real treat. This book was a fantastic debut novel and was a fun read to spend my day getting lost in. I loved the modern take on You've Got Mail. I thought the authors take was fresh and entertaining. Not only was this book a part of one of my favorite troupes, Enemies to Lovers, but it also delivered on excellent chemistry and push and pull. I loved the interactions between Pepper and Jack. They appeared to be so opposite, yet so alike at the same time. I thought their story was well written and entertaining. And I for one, couldn't wait to see their story play out.

At the end of the day, Tweet Cute was the perfect light read. It was paced well, smart and filled with some great swoon-worthy moments. As far as debut novels go, this one is pretty fantastic. I look forward to seeing what this author will have in store for readers in the future.

This book was so much fun to read!

It was in the style of You've Got Mail and that is by far my favorite trope! I don't why I love it so much but I do. I enjoyed the twitter war aspect and how these main characters could relate so well to each other, even before fully understanding who the other person was.

I tried my hand at making a Monster Cake, a creation one of the main characters makes with her sister, but there wasn't a specific recipe so I made it up on my own. I didn't care for it, but my coworkers all seemed to love it. I want to try it again but doing a few things different.

The dual POV was a little weird with this book. There were many times I kept reading it in the others voice but then they would start talking in the third person and I would have to go back and see who's chapter I was in. So in all I guess it didn't seem as if they both had their own distinctive voices throughout, but that's really the only complaint I have.

Overall this was a quick and addictive read. I didn't want to put it down! If you enjoy reading things in the style of You've Got Mail and Alex, Approximately then pick this one up! It's a very enjoyable read!

What if You’ve Got Mail had a baby? Tweet Cute would be the cutest wittle baby 😍.

Y’all. I knew this was YA and I have had some trouble with YA...it has to be the perfect storm to work for me....Perfect storm, meet Tweet Cute.

I loved this fun little story. The premise is simple. A twitter war between a large burger chain and the sweet little deli that’s been around the corner forever. The fun part. Two high school classmates are unknowingly running the twitter war...hi jinx ensues.

These characters were real...but not annoying 😂. The location...New York City...always a good idea. The premise....executed well.

It bears repeating...a perfect storm.

I will be recommending this one for those who want lighthearted fun. Not a lot of teenage angst (can I get a hallelujah) helps me feel confident in this recommendation 😂. If you are a fan of You’ve got mail...you should try it. Just go in knowing it is young adult!

4 solid 🌟’s. Out 1.21.20 by Wednesday Books.

I received a free ARC from NetGalley.com in exchange for an honest review.

Tweet cute is the story of Jack and Pepper, two seniors at an exclusive NYC school with a lot more in common than they think. Both come from restaurant families. Pepper’s parents recently turned their family business, Bug League Burger, into an international corporation and moved to NYC to run it, while Jack’s parents own the neighborhood staple Girl Cheesing, a deli famous for its grilled cheese made with Grandma Belly’s secret recipe. Both members of their school swim and dive teams, both struggling under the weight of parental expectations and senior year pressure, they also both have a knack for snarky, ever-escalating twitter retorts. Oh, and did we mention they’re both in love with each other, but don’t know because they’re sparring on not one, but two anonymous internet platforms?

Overall, the story was predictable but fun, but often had a “How do you do, fellow kids?” feel about it.

A solid three stars.

Actual Rating: 4.5 stars

This book was just so freaking adorable! I laughed out loud, and thoroughly enjoyed Tweet Cute. This is You've Got Mail for Gen Z and the social media era. It's a little slow to start, but once it gets going, it has all the cuteness and humor you want in a teen romcom, with a side of characters figuring out what they want in life and going after it. This hits ALL the major beats of You've Got Mail, if the characters happened to be teenagers working for their parents rival food companies and engaging in a Twitter war over a grilled cheese sandwich! I loved this so much and I think it is going to be a huge hit.

Pepper is a straight-A student, captain of the swim team, baking extraordinaire, and secretly juggling the Twitter account for Big League Burgers, along with school work from an elite school in the Upper West Side of New York City. Her parents are divorced but friendly, her sister doesn't talk to her mom, and her mom is intensely focused on the business and pressuring Pepper to help with snarky social media content.

Jack is the class clown, twin to his "golden boy" brother who seems to overshadow him (Ethan: Dive team captain, student council, universally liked, frequently making out with his boyfriend). Ethan thinks Pepper is robotic in her quest for academic perfection, but things slowly change when a Twitter war between Big League Burger and his families deli erupts. Jack feels pressured to eventually take over the family business, but he has a secret passion...app development.

I won't say too much more and spoil things, but this book is truly funny and adorable. I am living for Jack's mom and her sense of humor. Plus all of the descriptions of baked goods will make you HUNGRY, so be prepared! This has so much heart and is about love, family, and finding the courage to be yourself. I received an advance copy of this book for review via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

I absolutely adored this Young Adult book! It’s You’ve Got Mail, but with grilled cheese instead of books and Twitter instead of newspaper articles/tv interviews. The comparison in plot to a beloved movie is really fun, but the characters and the story are unique and hold up on their own. I expected to enjoy this, but I didn’t know how much I would; I ended up bingeing it in 24 hours over a weekend. When finished, I was so sad that it was over! Reading YA as an adult can go either way for me, but the best ones will immediately take me back to high school, which this certainly did.

This book is a 4.5 star for me, but when forced to round to 4 or 5 on Goodreads, I happily went with 5. I read this on a really tough day and it constantly kept a smile on my face- I can’t think of a better way to summarize my feelings on this book than that!

For fans of YA done really well - I would add this to my YA favorites list with Tell Me Three Things and Love & Gelato.

Thank you to Wednesday Book, St. Martin's Press, NetGalley and Emma Lord for the opportunity to read this eARC! Review will be shared on my social media accounts closer to pub date.

This was such a cute book! I absolutely loved it! The story moved along well without any big gaps or slow moving sections. I really liked the characters, I thought they were well fleshed out and were believable as a couple.

This was so stinking cute! Pepper and Jack are both so lovable and funny. All the different layers of communication feel believable and don't fall into miscommunication tropes. The family dynamics were interesting. The romance was just fluffy, cute, and great. Everything about this book made me smile.

Publisher’s description: 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.

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I loved this book!

Emma Lord’s “Tweet Cute” is a witty, fast-paced, updated version of Nora Ephron’s 1998 film “You’ve Got Mail”...VERY updated. In the film, the love interests are waiting impatiently for a dial-up internet connection in order to chat. In “Tweet Cute,” responses are instantaneous, and Pepper and Jack’s world can get turned upside down in the time it takes Jack to jump off the high dive.

We know these two are destined for love, and it’s so much fun taking the ride with them. Classified as Teens and Young Adult, this is an appealing story for adults as well.

So much fun!

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. This title will be available on January 21, 2020.

I was really excited for this one because everything about the summary screamed to me. Two people controlling company twitter accounts, going at each other on twitter, and then actually falling in love? Count me in any day. While I did really enjoy that along with the other aspects and plot points of this book, I did feel like it tried to do too much for me at one point, and i it hadn’t tried to do those different things I would have enjoyed it more.
This book can be split into two parts, you have the aspect of our two main characters controlling their parents company twitter accounts and both being in on it and knowing who the other is and then you have them talking to each other through an app, getting to know one another, but both being secretly hidden behind an anonymous username. Now, I definitely liked both of the plots, but it got to a point where it seemed like the app and that relationship they had formed through it was forgotten, and while it did come back in the end, it just fell flat for me, and that is where the “trying to do too much” came in for me. I wish we could have either not had that story line in there at all, or it could have been just a little more relevant where I didn't complete forget about it at one point.
Other than that one problem, I would definitely recommend this book, if you are looking for something cute and you love the sound of the synopsis! This book screams rom com material to me and I would watch this immediately (and then probably rewatch it) if they made it into a move (which they should, someone should get on that).

This is a modern retelling of You've Got Mail, and I just loved it. There is a twitter war between the true owner of a grilled cheese recipe: the small diner around the corner, and the large chain restaurant. Caught in the middle are the daughter and son of the owners of each restaurant. Meanwhile, the two students are becoming friends, or at least frenemies, at school. Unbeknownst to them , they have ALSO been talking on an anonymous app called Weasel.

The book is funny, the characters are charming, and I thoroughly loved this book. More retellings of classic and beloved stories for a new and modern generation!

This book had the perfect amount of cheesy, angsty teen drama that everyone needs to get through the Winter blues. It's a really cute story of two people finding love in an unexpected place, and finding themselves in a world that demands so much of them.

This book was everything. This book went above and beyond my expectations. The interactions between the two main characters had me laughing and crying. The story was fresh and I loved the twitter war they had going on. The writing was just so well done and it makes me want to read more by this author. I loved this book so much and I am so grateful for netgally for giving me a copy. One of my top books of the year. I cant wait to recommend this to all my friends and the patrons at the library, I know the teens will love it.