bookoala
Written on Feb 13, 2021
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.
- ISBN10 1250237327
- ISBN13 9781250237323
- Publish Date 1 February 2020
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 5 April 2024
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Wednesday Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English
Reviews
mrs_mander_reads
Written on Nov 13, 2020
Joséphine
Written on Oct 27, 2020
Steph L
Written on Oct 6, 2020
girlinthepages
Written on Apr 20, 2020
Reasons to Read Tweet Cute
Rivalry: The entire premise of the book is that a small, family owned deli is going head to head on social media with a big corporate chain restaurant, and the Twitter feeds are being managed by the respective teenage children of the owners, who also happen to be classmates. It's a perfect rom-com set up!
Romance: I have to admit, Pepper and Jack's romance (#PepperJack) was cute, believably, and the right amount of swoony. It was also very respectful and mature and I enjoyed seeing YA characters who were so thoughtful and earnest in their feelings for each other- nothing ever felt artificial or overly dramatic.
Food: Ok, so obviously this book is going to contain a lot of DELICIOUS savory food descriptions, which I was expecting, but I wasn't ALSO expecting it to feature so many outstanding baked goods (seriously, I NEED to try Monster Cake)! Pepper runs a baking blog with her sister and their baked goods are SO inventive and I want to try every single one of them. It's pretty impressive to come up with such unique dishes in the era of Instagram and Pinterest but Lord certainly managed to pull it off!
Parents: I love a good, well-rounded parent story in a YA novel and Tweet Cute is big on secondary family characters and how their actions and expectations have real repercussions on their children. It was heartbraking to see how Pepper's mother was driving her into the ground with the Twitter war, or how Jack's father couldn't see past his dream of Jack taking over the deli to notice his own son's ambitions and dreams. There were also some very surprising twists that came as a result of the parents keeping secrets that not even Pepper and Jack saw coming.
Vulnerability: One of the things that makes this romantic story work so well is that there's so much vulnerability, and so many layers of it. Not only are Jack and Pepper a very authentic-feeling couple, but they're also (unknowingly) chatting and falling for each other on an app that Jack designed that everyone is the school is addicted to which keeps the users anonymous. It was fun to see the parallels between their "anonymous" conversation and their real life interactions, and watching them fall for each other in both instances. I also found Pepper's personal story to be very authentic, really capturing the loneliness of being a teenage girl who never quite finds her niche and fits in. So often in media characters fall into the popular vs. loser stereotype, but there's so many shades in between those to get lost in, and Pepper's been navigating those shades of loneliness for most of her high school career.
Overall: I had a lot of fun reading Tweet Cute. I'm not entirely sure how well it will age (there's a lot of pop culture references as well as the whole being based on a social media platform thing) but it's definitely a very relevant read right now. I hope the author continues to create more foodie-centered stories!This review was originally posted on Girl in the Pages
Jyc
Written on Mar 26, 2020
i don’t hate the book because i enjoyed it for the most part. i read this on audiobook and really liked Dan Bittner who voiced for Jack. but damn, that turn in the story really made the difference for me. what a waste.
Kat @ Novels & Waffles
Written on Mar 19, 2020
We've all heard of star-crossed lovers, but what about cheese-crossed ones? Enter Pepper and Jack (yes, those are their actual names. The food pun-ery is strong with this one), whose families both run restaurants that are locked in a life-or-death battle over none other than...grilled cheese. I don't know about you, but if I was going to grab my pitchfork and go to war over something, I couldn't think of a more noble cause than the elegant perfection that is grilled cheese.
Both restaurants' social media accounts claim that their gooey, cheesy, sandwichy concoction is far superior. As a result, fierce textual punches are thrown across the blood-soaked cyber battlefield that is Twitter and the subtweeting massacre isn't pretty.
Naturally, since there's every reason for Pepper and Jack not to be attracted to each other, they obviously are. If this electric haters-to-lovers romance doesn't melt your heart like a slice of cheese on a hot griddle, then I don't know what will. It's lighthearted, soft, completely innocent, and it utterly won over my unfeeling heart of stone.
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Bianca
Written on Mar 8, 2020
It’s the talk about the future, maybe. Pepper using the word someday. Suddenly there is a someday, and that one spoken word seems to imply so many other unspoken ones—that we mean more to each other now than the people we were a month ago, who might have briefly nodded to each other at the all-night grad party in the spring and never seen each other again.
A family story, and about figuring out what we want instead of doing something just because it’s what’s expected of us. More importantly, this made me want to be in a twitter war myself and fall in love in real life with my nemesis
leahrosereads
Written on Mar 3, 2020
I really liked that while there was romance, the main points seemed to be more about the family elements, the pressure of school and colleges and figuring out your life at 17, and the good and bad of social media.
Lots of good takes here.
alindstadtcorbeax
Written on Jan 30, 2020
This one is a little complicated.
Pages 1-200: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pages 200-358: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (MAYBE add .5 for the last 50 pages)
I have to admit, it took me awhile to get into this. The premise was very CHEESY (pun time! Woo!), as it was basically, for the first 200 or so pages, just a twitter war between a deli and a corporate sandwich/burger joint, all over one allegedly stealing the other’s grilled cheese recipe. That and just regular ol’ high school life & bein’ a teen. Just surface level stuff. BO-RING. Still pretty cute though, Pepper and Jack relationship evolution. It just wasn’t... enough though! Again, this whole thing until the last 50, give or take, pages .
Overall, cute ending. But mostly just... meh+. It was just okay, then cute. It didn’t really make me feel anything. I felt like the romance took a back seat to everything else.
On a related note: It totally messed up my schedule to read 15 books this month... now i only have tonight and tomorrow to read my last one! I better pick a good one that’s so captivating that I can’t stop reading! haha. Wish me luck!