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.

Thank you Netgalley as well as the publisher for providing me with an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

This book sounded absolutely adorable, and just the right amount of cuteness overload a person could handle. I was absolutely correct this book was adorable!

The characters in this novel had chemistry from the very beginning and I was rooting for them the whole way through. They just seemed to mesh together even though they were supposed to be enemies. I loved the dynamic they had, they constantly teased each other. With all this said the main trope I had an issue with was miscommunication. Instead of being honest with each other all the time, they tried to hide things. When these things would come to light they would blow up.

This book seemed very realistic in the way the teens acted as well as their parents. This is not the way most parents act, but there are parents out there that would act this way. I loved how the parents had a rocky history even though that seemed to be a bit to convenient.

All in all I definitely recommend this novel if you are looking for something light and fluffy.

I cannot express how happy I am that Wednesday Books emailed me, asking me to be on this blog tour. Tweet Cute was a funny, unique, and perfect book.

My favorite part of this book was the characters. Jack and Pepper (or should I say PepperJack) were both hilarious characters who went through amazing changes. My favorite interaction between them was when Jack would try Pepper’s baking. I also enjoyed their conversations as Wolf and Bluebird, but I won’t spoil those for you😋.

This book started out so different than it ended, in the best way possible. I loved this book and I’m so sad the journey is over! I highly recommend Tweet Cute for fans of “Tell Me Three Things” or readers who are looking for lots of sass.

I enjoyed this book. It was cute and fun and romantic. Loved getting an opportunity to read this book early. Will recommend to friends going forward!

A super cute YA romance between the children of feuding restaurants. Pepper and Jack were well rounded characters, and I loved how it incorporated both the tropes of anonymity and enemies to lovers. Somewhat predictable, but this didn't take away from my enjoyment of the novel.

So much fun! There are so many things that the reader gets to know about the two main characters that they don't get to know, and they are laid out very nicely. It's funny, it's got heart, it's really a perfect teen rom com set in NYC.

"Tweet Cute" by Emma Lord has a very appropriate title because it was the cutest book ever. Between the "You've Got Mail" vibes and the New York City setting and the restaurant Twitter wars and the swimming pool flirtations and the baked goods and the snappy banter—there was just so much to love. I was hooked almost immediately and had a hard time putting it down. It was the kind of book where I got really grumpy when my best friend called because I was busy reading! I just loved PepperJack (cutest ship name) and the voice was phenomenal and seriously everything about it. I highly recommend this book!

omg I fucking LOVED this book!!! I related so much to Jack and Pepper, and I adored all the social media stuff, the family stuff, the school stuff. It was super cute, and also super current.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a chance to review this title.

Okay so, this was my absolute favorite contemporary book of 2019.

Let's start with the meat on this adorable rom-com of a book:

Pepper: she's the daughter of a family-owned burger empire, excels at school in an almost obsessive way, a swimmer, and loves to bake and runs a blog with her older sister.

Jack: Aspiring app creator, twin, diver, and son of local deli owners.

These two meet in three different platforms. First is the anonymous high school chat app that Jack created where everyone has animal names and nobody knows anyone's identities. Second is on Twitter when Pepper's mother decides to roll out a new menu of grilled cheese and confidently names one after Jack's family's specialty. Pepper and Jack, unbeknownst to anyone who they really are in real life, find themselves in a Twitter war. Third, they both go to the same school and end up friends after the dive team cuts into the sim teams' training sessions.

Both kids are equally as obsessed with the Twitter war they rage, even when they discover who each other is in real life and eventually through the chat app.

I loved:

The Twitter war, no matter how petty it was
The budding romance between two rivals
The subplots into their family dynanimcs
The food
The morals
The pop-culture references
GAH DID I SAY THE ROMANCE???

Not a fan of:


Yea, that's blank. I loved this book for its cheese (quite literally). I cannot wait to see what else Emma Lord has in store for the future. She is one to watch.

Tweet Cute was so adorable and I loved it. But don't read it if you're hungry. That's my warning to you.

Pepper is a super uptight girl, competing to be the best at everything. Her grades are perfect and she's on the swim team. The only thing is that Pepper really doesn't have friends. She and her mom moved to New York City after her parents got divorced. Her sister, Paige, lived there for awhile, but she's away in college. Pepper's mom runs a food chain that is getting larger. They started Big League Burger as a family business and it took off. They went from barely paying bills to money and private school in NYC. Pepper does talk to someone on an app that only has kids from school on it. They have become close, but it's anonymous. She is known as Bluebird and the boy is Wolf.

Jack's family runs a small deli called Girl Cheesing. It was started by his grandma and now his parents run it. Jack and his twin, Ethan, have grown up there. They don't have a lot of money, but his grandparents are paying for private school. Jack is a bit goofy, but it becomes clear that he has pretty low self esteem. His brother Ethan is loved by everyone. He's the "golden child" and Jack believes he's expected to take over the family business while Ethan goes off to college and make something of himself. Jack and Ethan's relationship isn't the best, but it's obvious they love each other. Jack's relationship with his grandma was the best though. I loved her and how she was with Jack.

Pepper's mom puts a new item on the menu, a Grandma's Special grilled cheese. Jack's family freaks out when they see it. Grandma Belly made that sandwich and Big League Burger stole it. A twitter war starts and takes off way faster than expected. Jack runs the twitter account. Big League Burger has a whole team, but no one has the snark and comebacks that Pepper has. So her mom pushes her into this war. Neither Jack nor Pepper know each other except for at school.

While at war, Pepper and Jack become friends and feelings start to grow to more. Not only are they having this twitter war, but we find out early that they are also Bluebird and Wolf. Jack actually made the app, Weazel. Pepper and Jack are pretty opposite in ways, but they are more similar than they think. Each one is stressed out about the future, but for different reasons. For all of Pepper's work, she has no idea what she really wants to do, except to bake. Paige and Pepper started a food blog. They create all these different deserts with cute names. Monster cake is a big hit with anyone who has tried it.

I loved watching Jack and Pepper's relationships develop, but I also loved watching how they grew individually, too. The friends and family members were great (except that Pepper's mom pissed me off all the time). Everything about this book was just cute and I loved every minute of it.

I gave this book 5 stars. Thank you to Wednesday Books for my review copy.

I literally don’t even know where to begin because this was absolutely the cutest thing I have ever read. This novel is told in dual perspective of Pepper and Jack. They both have lots of stuff going on at home but also get sucked into their family businesses twitter drama. And let me tell you… the drama was HILARIOUS.

I honestly didn’t know what to expect from this story, especially because all I knew was that it was a modern day You’ve Got Mail. And I feel like going into it just knowing that made the entire thing so much more entertaining!

What made this story surprising was that I didn’t expect them to have three different layers of their friendship: Twitter, IRL, Weazel. I thought that was a really fun way to integrate the whole “enemies-lovers-friends” trope! I especially liked that the dual perspective allowed us to see each side of the story. It was interesting seeing the internal conflicts between the families. I really love learning about family drama (however strange that might sound) and seeing sibling relationships.

Along with the family dynamics, I obviously loved the dynamic between Pepper and Jack. I was obviously shipping them so hard, and I honestly was screaming “OH MY GOSH THIS IS SO CUTE” every few chapters! It was so great to see both of them slowly learning about each other via different platforms. I especially loved how Pepper just KNEW it was Jack even though he literally is a twin and everybody gets them mixed up.

I’m going to be saying “I LOVED” a lot during this review because I seriously loved everything about it! I loved the friendships Pepper made throughout the book (I don’t want to give anything away). I loved how she grew and learned. I loved their little twitter war and the pranks related to it (though there is one slightly uh-oh moment when Jack sneaks into her bag and takes her phone for a minute… but they sort of talk about that after and it isn’t made into a problem so I didn’t think too much of it).

I especially loved the incorporation of baking was brought into it. I loved the fun Waitress-esque names for all the desserts Pepper would make (and I really want to try Monster Cake). Overall, I had zero issues with this book! It gave me a great happy, fulfilling story filled with sweetness and cheesiness (puns totally intended)!

I would recommend this to anyone who loves memes, social media, baking, twitters wars, anonymous chats, hilarious second-hand embarrassment, and an enemies-lovers trope executed perfectly! If you like puns, Mean Girl gifs used as perfect comebacks, the best ship name to exist, interesting family relationships, learning to navigate the bus system for the first time, and perfect endings, this is the book for you!