Tweet Cute

4.5/5 stars

This book was incredibly adorable. This book is about to high school seniors who live in New York named Pepper and Jack. Pepper's family own a large fast food corporation while Jack's owns a small generation family restaurant. When Pepper's families' restaurant is accused of stealing Jack's families' famous grilled cheese recipe it starts a twitter war between the companies' twitter accounts. While all of this is going on Jack also runs an app that is an anonymous chatting site only for students at their school. Jack and Pepper are secretly talking on there without knowing that they are interacting with each other on an everyday basis at school and over twitter. This book gave me very similar vibes to Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennet which I LOVED.

I loved everything about this book and there is not one single thing I would change. I love the hate to love trope that involves the two characters not knowing they are anonymously talking. The family owned restaurant trope is also one of my favorites. I related to this book on a lot of levels because I am a rising senior and I feel a lot of the same pressures the Pepper does. She has been constantly worried about fitting in to this place she didn't grow up in and making her resume look as best as she can. The struggle with AP classes and the competition students feel against each other and the privilege that comes with being able to afford the resources that help students get into top schools is all discussed in here. These topics are all ones that hit close to home and I feel like aren't discussed enough.

This book also tackled family relationships really well. Pepper and Jack both feel pressure in separate ways from the parents and I really appreciated seeing parents so much in this. There is also an estranged relationship between a mother and a daughter in here over a divorce as well as the discussion of struggles in being a twin.

These characters really jumped off the page for me and were very flushed out. They not only had family issues and dealt with similar things to me, but they had other interests and hobbies as well. Pepper baked all the time and everything in here sounded AMAZING! Jack was interested in app development thus creating the app for his fellow students. They were also both involved with swimming with Jack being on the dive team and Pepper being on the swim team. All of these aspects created depth to the characters but the book didn't feel like it was doing too many things at once. Emma Lord really mastered taking on all the aspects of a modern teens life.

The romance in this was one of the cutest I've ever read. The banter between the two main characters was unmatched and made me laugh out loud! This was directly hate to love but had similar elements. Their relationship grew slowly and I felt like it wasn't even close to being insta-love which I really enjoyed.

I highly recommend this book for anybody looking for a cute fun modern day Romeo and Juliet romance that touches on the pressures of being a teen in the 21st century.