Tweet Cute

Okay, honestly?
This is really friggin' cute. 100% here for it and loved how slow their romance built up.

Listened to it while playing Dave and wondered what marketing Bancho's would really be like

This book started off well. The characters were likeable but but unfortunately it dragged on and on with the twitter war drama. I read for romance and found it lacking.

Cute, fun, brain cotton candy.

This has been in my tbr pile for so long and I'm so glad I took the time to pick it up.

I didn't expect to like this story as much as I did but this was so cute and felt so modern to me. The banter between Jack and Pepper was definitely the highlight for me. I found myself laughing at multiple occasions.

I loved Jack and Pepper's characters and the development of them throughout the story. Reading them trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives as the end of high school neared felt so relatable and it felt like so could feel their anxiety through the pages.

This was the perfect debut novel and I am so excited to read more of Emma Lord's works.

Cute. I liked the story line, however improbable it is. It was hard to tell the characters apart by voice only in the beginning- the chapters didn't have enough of a different vibe at first.

I kept grinning while reading this book.
The emotions and the actions here feel really real. Like I can understand why the MCs did what they did.

**3.5 stars!!

This was super cute!! I love the conversations about expectations from parents and pairing them with what you want for yourself. I feel like there's not a ton of that in YA romance. I also liked the writing style, it was simple and straightforward, but I loved how Emma Lord would relate things to food whenever she could, since that was what the two of them had in common.

The characters overall were a bit underdeveloped, ESPECIALLY the side characters. Pooja, Paul, and Paige (just now realizing they all start with P's lol) were all just caricatures of people, boiled down to 1.5 personality traits, made solely to serve the main characters. Ethan was a bit more of a character but I think that was only because Jack's main conflict revolved around him.

I feel like the ending also could've been shortened a bit, it felt like it rambled for a while.

Overall, pretty cute story with some interesting new perspectives!!

Muy cute todo

This was such a cute read! Now I need to try to Monster Cake or the So Sorry Blondies.

This book was recommended by a friend and MY GOSH, IT WAS SO SO SO CUTE, FUNNY AND WARM AND FULL OF FUZZY FEELINGS. I will recommend my friends to buy a copy too. ♥
I love the complicity of Jack and Pepper. Their secret smiles ♥

This was very cute.
Things I liked:
-Misunderstandings that actually make sense
-The baked goods
- I liked that they knew who was on the other end of twitter account early on. It allowed for a more competitive spirit and they didn't have to forgive each other for as much stuff. Also, it makes sense that it would come up in conversation.
-Weazel!
Things that weren't so great:
-Some of the side characters had motivations that I just didn't get. It felt like the author wanted a particular set up to happen, but didn't build a strong enough foundation.
- Some of the decisions the parents were made were kinda crappy, but it gets swept under the rug at the end.
- Some parts of the ending just felt to0...sweet? tidy? The delivery app getting a chat service and games is just weird. I get why the character would want it but it pulled out the story a little bit with the perfectness. True neutral:This book has *alot* of pop culture references. And I got them! But I'm in my late 20's and theoretically, not the target audience. I'm not sure if current high schoolers will enjoy these as much. (To be clear, I'm making fun of current teenagers. I'm just not sure they're watching Mean Girls *and* Gossip Girl. I get that some media is forever, but still. )

Super cute ron-com YA book with decent rhythm and plot twists.

Only issue is that Penn State is not located in Philly.

I feel so bad for not liking this, but ugh this was way too cheesy. (And the story itself had a weird obsession with grilled cheese, so it was EXTRA EXTRA cheesy ;-;)

I never DNF books but wtf was this book??
I got 70% through it and I really can't force myself to finish it. It's so atrocious.

For a book about having a presence on the internet, it really didn't know much about social media and how people act on there.

It was cringey (I hate that word but I don't know how else to describe it) and the story read like a 12 year olds daydream scenarios. Not realistic in the slightest and it had many things left unaddressed (that maybe get addressed in the last 30% but I doubt it)

Would recommend for 10-13 year olds tbh

Very sweet, but I faced once again that frustration: teenagers who are more adults than most adults I know. That overcome, it's cute and interesting.

So this is Emma Lord's first book and I'm very annoyed that her second book doesn't come out until January.

Debut author Emma Lord juggles multiple tropes in this YA romance. Pepper and Jack don't like each other, but they don't realize they have been sharing their hopes and dreams in an anonymous school chat app that Jack just happens to have invented. Not only that - they also get intimately involved in a Twitter war between the burger chain that Pepper's parents manage and the local deli that Jack's parents own, and they make a bet on its outcome. Oh, and throw in the usual YA themes of parental pressure to achieve, love/hate relationships with siblings, divorce, school rivalries, etc.

It's to Lord's credit that the whole book doesn't come crashing down under the weight of all of these tropes, but she deftly keeps everything aloft with humor, insight, drama and of course romance. Despite all of the roadblocks, Pepper and Jack's relationship slowly develops from mistrust to friendship and finally something more. I thought the Twitter war was going to consist of two enemies lobbing bombs at each other but was pleasantly surprised to see that the teens establish ground rules and continue to grow closer, even as they are savaging each other's family businesses (for the most part).

It did bother me a bit that Jack had the upper hand in recognizing the majority of the secrets before Pepper but he never uses that knowledge in a cruel way. Bonus points for the fact that Jack's twin brother is gay and has a boyfriend, and he is also one of the most popular kids at their school. NBD!

I'm way, way past the YA age range but some books of the genre are so well written and constructed that they can appeal to someone like me who is approaching retirement. Ms. Lord delivered on the title whole-heartedly.

Too cute! Loved everything about this.

5 stars for all the tumblr references

fun!!

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did i cry at the end? yes

4.5/5 stars

This book was incredibly adorable. This book is about to high school seniors who live in New York named Pepper and Jack. Pepper's family own a large fast food corporation while Jack's owns a small generation family restaurant. When Pepper's families' restaurant is accused of stealing Jack's families' famous grilled cheese recipe it starts a twitter war between the companies' twitter accounts. While all of this is going on Jack also runs an app that is an anonymous chatting site only for students at their school. Jack and Pepper are secretly talking on there without knowing that they are interacting with each other on an everyday basis at school and over twitter. This book gave me very similar vibes to Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennet which I LOVED.

I loved everything about this book and there is not one single thing I would change. I love the hate to love trope that involves the two characters not knowing they are anonymously talking. The family owned restaurant trope is also one of my favorites. I related to this book on a lot of levels because I am a rising senior and I feel a lot of the same pressures the Pepper does. She has been constantly worried about fitting in to this place she didn't grow up in and making her resume look as best as she can. The struggle with AP classes and the competition students feel against each other and the privilege that comes with being able to afford the resources that help students get into top schools is all discussed in here. These topics are all ones that hit close to home and I feel like aren't discussed enough.

This book also tackled family relationships really well. Pepper and Jack both feel pressure in separate ways from the parents and I really appreciated seeing parents so much in this. There is also an estranged relationship between a mother and a daughter in here over a divorce as well as the discussion of struggles in being a twin.

These characters really jumped off the page for me and were very flushed out. They not only had family issues and dealt with similar things to me, but they had other interests and hobbies as well. Pepper baked all the time and everything in here sounded AMAZING! Jack was interested in app development thus creating the app for his fellow students. They were also both involved with swimming with Jack being on the dive team and Pepper being on the swim team. All of these aspects created depth to the characters but the book didn't feel like it was doing too many things at once. Emma Lord really mastered taking on all the aspects of a modern teens life.

The romance in this was one of the cutest I've ever read. The banter between the two main characters was unmatched and made me laugh out loud! This was directly hate to love but had similar elements. Their relationship grew slowly and I felt like it wasn't even close to being insta-love which I really enjoyed.

I highly recommend this book for anybody looking for a cute fun modern day Romeo and Juliet romance that touches on the pressures of being a teen in the 21st century.

My full review can be found here: https://ohsrslybooks.wordpress.com/2020/05/20/review-tweet-cute-emma-lord/

Non-Spoiler Review:

I read this as the second book in my ‘Buzzfeed Recommends' series, and I was left feeling distinctly underwhelmed.

This story is very much sold as an enemies-to-lovers kind of romance, with two teenagers who are engaged in an online twitter war representing their respective parent's companies, growing closer in real life and eventually falling into a romance.

Harper, our female protagonist, is unbelievably dull and there's not much really to her personality. Jack, our other protagonist, is a little more interesting and I enjoyed reading the chapters from his perspective more. However, neither of them were exciting characters. And unfortunately, dull characters mean we have a fairly dull romance. The romance wasn't exciting nor was there anything that made me feel soft about it - it was just nice, and whilst it had it's sweet moments, it had more moments where I felt incredibly bored by it all.

The issue with this book is that it's meant to be a character driven story, however when your characters are dull it leaves the reader feeling like something is lacking. There wasn't much plot to this book to save this, and it's hard for me to name any specific plot points to talk about.

Also, the twitter war played less of an aspect in this than I thought it would - it seemed to come and go quite a bit, so if you're going to read it for that, be warned it's not always there.

There were a few problems with this book I also can't talk about due to spoilers but I wouldn't readily recommend it. I think you'd enjoy this if you are really into YA romances, but if you're not or even only mildly interested into YA romances this is not the book for you.

Spoiler Review:

Wow, this was boring.

Pepper really is a basic bitch. Which I thought was a little strange considering she's very creative in her baking, but not creative in any other aspect of her life which I found a little weird. Creative people don't tend to funnel it into one outlet, it bleeds into every area of their lives - but not for Pepper, she's just boring .

I liked Jack a lot more but he wasn't perfect either, and when I say I liked him a lot more I mean I feel fairly neutral about the character. I don't really know what to say about him other than the fact I didn't appreciate that most of the plot points surrounding this character revolved around miscommunication. I am fine with one or two plot points being due to miscommunication when it comes to teenagers in books - but nearly all of them? No thank you.

Their romance is forgettable as are the characters. It's nice and sweet but I'm already forgetting their relationship, and honestly I don't think we got to see enough of the actual romance side of their relationship to feel strongly about it. I think too much time was spent on them cultivating a friendship instead of a romance for me to feel strongly about them being in a romantic relationship.

I think the biggest problem I had with this was the ‘big reveal' at the end of the novel for why Pepper's mum encouraged and pressured Pepper into a twitter war. She was bitter Jack's father cheated on her and used her recipes at his shop for a while. That was it. It felt like far too little to motivate an experienced CEO of a corporate food chain to risk the company's and her daughter's reputation on. It was unrealistic and petty and wasn't a good enough reason for it all.

I think the best aspect of this book isn't the romance, the characters or the twitter war - it's the commentary on family pressure. Both Pepper and Jack feel trapped by the pressure their families put on them, and it really drives them into awful and uncomfortable situations. Emma Lord does a very good job on exploring how it impacts their mental health and their relationships. If it hadn't been for this aspect I may have given this one star.

Overall, not a read I enjoyed and I was left feeling really disappointed. This could have been a fun, light read if we had been given better characters - but we weren't. It falls flat in almost every aspect.

Read my full review here: https://moonlitbooks.home.blog/2020/04/03/tweetcutereview/