Tweet Cute
By: Emma Lord
Published Year: 2020
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Pages: 368
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This in no way shape or form influenced my opinion of this book.
Summary (Provided by 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.
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.
First Impressions
Cutesy cartoon cover with a punny title? Count me intrigued! Add in a star-crossed lovers storyline and I was hooked.
What I thought
This book was beyond cute.
Pepper is that daughter of Big League Burger moguls while Jack is one of the sons of small business Girl Cheese. When Big League Burger puts a suspiciously familiar grilled cheese on their menu, Jack comes to the defense of his family’s business by starting a Twitter war. What he didn’t know was that the person sitting on the other end of this war was his classmate, Pepper.
Even though this book sounds like it could be extremely predictable and boring, it is everything but. The twists that I expected to drop like halfway through the book were dropped earlier which intrigued me into not knowing how the rest of the book was going to play out.
Jack and Pepper also have the best banter. I love how they tease each other and it never gets mean. Pepper also is a baker and has some incredibly fun names for her baked goods. I don’t know what it is exactly about this book that made it so enjoyable but it just has that indescribable “it” factor.
I think when I read the summary I expected a lot more of the hate to love kind of story, but it’s more along the lines of slightly dislike but really like to love. From the beginning it’s obvious that even though Jack and Pepper aren’t friends, they don’t hate each other. In fact, they fall into being friends very quickly.
I feel like I’m not saying much about this book at all and maybe it’s just because my feelings about it are purely “eeee!! So cute!” so I can’t get enough thoughts together to do it justice.
Basically, read this book. It’s a cute YA love story with adorable banter and fun character development. I loved every moment of this book and can’t wait to read more by Lord in the future. The only thing that held me back from rating this book 5 stars is that it didn’t have much staying power. I greatly enjoyed reading this as I did so, but I can’t say I remember very much of the details.