Blog Tour & ARC Review: Tweet Cute by Emma Lord
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Author: Emma Lord
Published January 21st 2020 by Wednesday Books
Goodreads Synopsis
A fresh, irresistible rom-com from debut author Emma Lord about the chances we take, the paths life can lead us on, and how love can be found in the opposite place you expected.
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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Review
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher via NetGalley. This in no way impacted on my view.
This book has been on my radar ever since it was first announced. When the email came through asking if I would like to take part in the blog tour, I jumped at the chance, and actually read the book the very next day, after my copy arrived. Tweet Cute is a sort of You've Got Mail spin on YA contemporary. Both of our main characters, Pepper and Jack, are the children of burger chain owners, and find themselves in charge of the social media accounts for the companies. When Big League Burger, the company owned by Pepper's parents, introduce a new Grilled Cheese sandwich that is neigh on identical to the one that Girl Cheese have been selling for years, down to the name, it's on. Soon, a twitter spat is started, and to make matter's worse, Pepper and Jack are actually school mates, who have to work together as respective captains of the swim and dive teams. To add another layer to the story, both have been communicating with each other, unknowingly, through the anonymous Weazel app that Jack created for the school, and have been falling for each. With the gloves are on, and the gauntlet thrown, they will stop at nothing to win, and not even their budding feeling will get in the way (even with the world shipping them)
When I mean I read the book the next day, I mean that I spent two hours doing nothing but reading, and wouldn't move or do anything until I was finished - everything about the book was outstanding, and I refused to miss a minute until I was done. If I hadn't already known this was a debut, I would've expected this to have been the author's tenth published work, or something. The plot line was phenomenal, with the action gripping you on every page, and the characters were so relatable, and real, that I wish I actually know them.
To start with Jack, he's a twin, but not the 'popular' twin. His brother Ethan is beloved by all, and most people can't tell them apart, and when they realise Jack is not his brother, they're clearly disappointed. Pepper, however, has always been able to tell them apart, and this has partly endeared her to him from the first time they met in freshmen year. He seems to think his family prefer Ethan, as he's always allowed to skive off from working in the restaurant, whereas Jack always picks up the slack, and they don't understand his love of app development and coding. Pepper, on the other hand, is focused, and really really smart, too. She moved from Nashville to New York the summer before freshman year, and her first day at the exclusive school was an eye opener. Within a few weeks, she learnt how to fit in, and is now wading like a swan through life, juggling her school work, her swimming, the pressure her mam places on her with the twitter stuff, and her family's disfunctionality. Her only saving grace is talking to Wolf via Weazel, and the thrill that is coming from the interactions with Jack via twitter.
The romance in this book was second to none. Jack and Pepper might just be my ship of 2020, and this is currently the only 2020 book I've read. From the first interaction, the chemistry is off the page, and once we add the tension of school and twitter, I felt like screaming at them to kiss. They've both been the only people to really see the other, and not see the facade or public persona they put on. Even with the tension of the twitter spat, they lean on each other, and try to make sure it never goes really personal. Each reveal parts of themselves to the other, and there are some really sweet moments between them, that have nothing to do with their relationship or anything else.
There is a bit of angst in the book - understandably - and the hints of a love triangle, but it's nothing to worry about. All in all, this book was just outstanding, to repeat myself, and if I can't convince you to buy a copy, I don't know what will.
Dates Read:
August 31, 2019Rating
5 Stars
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.
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