Blog Tour: Tweet Cute - Emma Lord

Tweet Cute
Emma Lord
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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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.

REVIEW

A Twitter war was ignited, when the popular Big League Burger chain dared to rip off small business, Girl Cheesing's, grilled cheese recipe. What ensued was pure joy for me, as the two teens behind the tweet storm became friends, and eventually, more-than-friends.

This book was sweet, charming, a little goofy, a LOT of fun, and it simply made me smile. So, I say, Emma Lord, job well done! I think I started this book with a smile, and ended it in happy tears, and here are five things that delighted me as I read Tweet Cute:

1. #PepperJack - At one point during the book, the internet began shipping these two, but I was shipping them way before that. Both Pepper and Jack felt a little bit lost and out of place. Jack lived in the shadow of his popular identical twin, while Pepper lost part of herself, as she tried to adapt to NYC prep school life. However, when they were together, they were able to shed all pretenses, and be themselves. Why wouldn't I want that!
2. Secret penpals - You are going to see a whole lot of You've Got Mail comparisons, and here's another one. Not only were these two tweeting at each other, they were also anonymous friends on a secret app. I loved their exchanges, and was eager for an unmasking, since they were never as honest with each other in real life. It was hard knowing what they didn't know, but it was also lovely seeing their feelings for each other, IRL, change without that knowledge. 
3. Predictable and unpredictable - The predictability was with something I really valued, so I had exactly zero problems with that. It's what I wanted, and what I came here for, but Lord threw in a few surprises towards the end, which I found made great additions to an already fabulous story. 
4. Delicious Desserts - One of the things Pepper like to do was bake. This girl took her desserts seriously. I mean, she carried emergency dessert condiments in her backpack in order to doctor up dishes she purchased. I looked forward to all her culinary delights. They had fun names, and were made from the most incredible combination of ingredients. I personally lean more savory than sweet, and even I was salivating from the descriptions. 
5. An AMAZING Ending!!! - When I saw this book had an epilogue, I was very excited, but I nearly jumped out of my pants, when I saw it was a jump-ahead epilogue. Let me tell you, it was perfection, and Lord tied up those ends in such an epic and masterful way, that I actually have tears in my eyes just thinking about it. 

A fitting end to the cheesiest romance ever told, and a love we can all brie-lieve in.

This book easily earned a place on my made-me-happy list. The combination of romance, family drama, teen antics, and food seemed tailor made for me. Tweet Cute was like a gooey grilled cheese on a brisk fall day. It left me extremely satisfied, and all warm on the inside.

* ARC received in exchange for an honest review.

Pepper was a dessert queen! She ran a blog, which featured amazing desserts with cute names, and she was also known to carry "emergency" dessert condiments with her, at all times, in order to doctor any sweet snacks she bought. I googled "outrageous desserts", and this is a sampling of some of the incredible confectionary delights I found. It seems ice cream is used a LOT, when assembling delicious masterpieces. What's the most outrageous dessert you have ever had?

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, 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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