Tweet Cute Blog Tour Review
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.
This adorable debut by Emma Lord had me hooked from the beginning. It follows two teens, Pepper and Jack, as they battle it out online and in real life. One of their main gripes with each other is that Pepper's family's franchise chain, Big League Burger, has seemingly stolen the recipe for a grilled cheese from Jack's family's deli, Girl Cheesing. As they roast each on Twitter, they also grow closer together in real life.
One of my favorite parts about the structure of the novel was how Pepper and Jack were communicating to each in three different roles without realizing they were always speaking to each other. Firstly, they know each as rivals at their school where they jibe over schoolwork as well as the swim team's they are both on. Secondly, they chat on the school's unofficial social media app, known as Weazel, under the aliases of Bluebird (Pepper) and Wolf (Jack). It is actually first on that platform where they first start catching feelings for each other. Finally, they are each running the respective Twitter accounts of their family businesses, for Pepper that is Big League Burger and for Jack it is Girl Cheesing. This complicated-from-the-start has a delicious sense of dramatic irony as we as the audience know that all of these different personas actually belong to the same two characters. Moreover, the narrative switches between the two characters' points-of-view, so the audience learns more about the characters individually than they learn about each other.
Another aspect that I really enjoyed was all the pop culture references the characters make throughout the novel. They listen to Taylor Swift, they watch Riverdale, and they study like Blair Waldorf. However, even though I enjoyed these references to modern life and popular culture, I also know that these references will the date the novel to our specific time period and cultural phenomena. But contemporary novels are never really known for their longevity, are they?
Food obviously plays an important role in Tweet Cute, as both character's have an intimate relationship with food. Both of their families own restaurant's and Pepper even runs a baking blog with her sister. Inspired by all of the recipes and descriptions of food found in the novel, I tried my hand at making the "stolen" grilled cheese known in the novel as Grandma's Special and I have to tell you, Emma Lord (as well as the characters in the book) really know what they're talking about. I won't spoil the secret recipe here so you'll have to read the book to find out!
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| Best grilled cheese I've ever had! |
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Let me know in the comments below if you pick up Tweet Cute!
-Laura
Disclosure: I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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