[Blog Tour] [Review] Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

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.

Early Praise:
"Tweet Cute delivers in every possible way: a perfect enemies-to-lovers romance, a whip-smart plotline, and endearingly real characters. I devoured it.” - Francesca Zappia, author of Eliza and Her Monsters

"Sweet and fun! An adorable debut that updates a classic romantic trope with a buzzy twist." - Jenn Bennett, author of Alex, Approximately and Serious Moonlight

“A witty rom-com reinvention for the Twitter age, Tweet Cute pairs delicious online rivalry with deeply relatable insights on family pressure and growing up. This fresh, funny read had us hitting ‘favorite’ from page one.” - Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka, authors of Always Never Yours and If I’m Being Honest 

Buy Link: https://read.macmillan.com/lp/tweet-cute/


Our Review

This story has so many developments, I find it hard to summarize well. We take off with the classical rival families, and kids who equally don't get along. This thing is that they already didn't get along, without knowing they were rivals until one day they started competing on Twitter. This gave start to an online battle going viral. It gets even more complicated—the two are having fun fighting each other. Right when you thing this can't become more tangled... They're also unknowingly best friends on an anonymous chat application.

I confess I had fun even just summarizing the book, so there's no doubt this was a more-than-pleasant read. It's true there was too much happening together, I'm not sure why there was a need for a Romeo-and-Juliet-meets-You've-Got-Mail plot filled with a couple more tropes, but the result was good, believe me. Emma Lord knew how to handle it all and keep us interested. 

Unfortunately, this falls in the not that much of a full 4-star book but good enough I could round it up. I love this You've Got Mail trope and even though the book drank from there, I felt underwhelmed even though I can't point out the issue. Of course, a lot of the events were also easy to guess and the couple didn't make me swoon enough. As you can see, my negative points are of a subjective order.

I do think it's not a bombastic read, objectively speaking; and yet, it's much above average. It could be more memorable, more refreshing but it's got content. It's a well-rounded book that those who like YA's should like, but I believe the intensity will vary from reader to reader.


Honest review based on an ARC provided by the publisher via Netgalley.

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Author bio:

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, grilled cheese, and a whole lot of love. Her sun sign is Hufflepuff, but she is a Gryffindor rising. TWEET CUTE is her debut novel. You can find her geeking out online at @dilemmalord on Twitter.

Social Links:  @dilemmalord (Twitter/Instagram)