Tweet Cute by Emma Lord Book Review

Title: Tweet Cute
Author: Emma Lord
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Release Date: January 21, 2020
Pages: 368

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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My Thoughts

This book is told in the POVs of Pepper and Jack, two teenagers from New York. 

Mete Pepper, your model student at school, a perfectionist, and in charge of a national fast-food chain, Big League Burger's social media page. She also runs a baking blog with her sister, Paige, who is away at college. 

I’m a perfectionist, through and through, and even at five, I had no interest in embarrassing myself.

Enter Jack, your class clown and constantly in his "golden" twin's shadow. He works at his family's deli and is secretly the creator of Weazel, an app he made that's been going around the students at his school.

She turns her head so slowly to look at me that for a moment I am stricken with the weird unfamiliarity of being seen—no, not seen. Recognized. It’s rare enough someone knows I’m me and not Ethan without getting a good look at me. It’s straight up weird when someone can tell without fully turning around. The only person I know who can do that is Grandma Belly—my parents still mix us up so frequently that there’s about a 50 percent chance I am Ethan, and someone switched us along the way.

Then Big League Burger's new menu item called Grandma's Special sparks controversy on Twitter. Who knew it would launch into a whole Twitter war?

Star Rating: ★★★★★ (5)

The writing flowed nicely and I liked the writing style a lot. I enjoyed every second of it and the pages just flew by. I loved the enemies-to-lovers, the food descriptions (I'm a sucker for them!), and a full-fledged Twitter war over a grilled-cheese sandwich.

Tweet Cute was a super cute and fun read. It was a very good debut novel, close to being one of my favorite books! All that's left is to read You Have a Match. Can't wait to read another book by this author!

About the Author

Emma Lord is a digital media editor and writer living in New York City, where she spends whatever time she isn't writing either running or belting show tunes in community theater. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a major in psychology and a minor in how to tilt your computer screen so nobody will notice you updating your fan fiction from the back row. She was raised on glitter, a whole lot of love, and copious amounts of grilled cheese. Visit her website at https://www.emmalordwriting.com.