Story for the Week
I am not a witty person. I live with three witty people. Every once in a while, I’ll come up with a good zinger, but more often than not, I am the one being zinged. I can come up with a great comeback hours after the time was right, but in the moment, I’m not so great.
I think one of the most attractive things about my husband is his wit and sense of humor. Sometimes it makes me 🙄or 🤦 because he loves a good Dad joke, but most of the time he makes me 🤣. Our daughter inherited that wit, much to my disadvantage, and when my brother-in-law joined our family…. Well, you can imagine that I am the literal butt of many, many jokes.
In the Twitter-verse, there’s a lot of regular dialog, political discussions, normal and sometimes mundane updates, but what I really love about Twitter are the one-liners that you can find on any given day. They’re even better when a tweet goes viral and there are back-and-forth zingers that are ridiculously entertaining.
I recently read a teen/young adult novel about a Twitter war that tickled my funny bone enough that I thought it would be good to revisit it because I feel like we could all use a good chuckle right now.
Book Review
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5 Stars for Tweet Cute by Emma Lord
362 pages
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Publication Date: January 21, 2020
I received an advance copy of this title from NetGalley and Wednesday Books in exchange for an honest review.
Publisher’s Description
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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Main Characters:
- Pepper – over-achiever, eyes set on Ivy League schools, grew up in Nashville where the family business started as a mom-and-pop and still finds it hard to believe they’ve lived on the Upper East Side in New York for four years since the family business exploded. Wants to focus on school, but her mom keeps pressuring her to secretly handle the business’s Twitter account because she’s a quick wit and really creative with tweets
- Jack – class clown, overshadowed by his twin brother. He is expected to inherit the oversight of the family deli, but he is interested in pursuing app development. He has already secretly created an app that allows students to meet and get to know one another anonymously, but the school is trying to shut it down due to concerns about cheating and cyberbullying. He is also responsible for managing the family business’s Twitter account.
- Paige – Pepper’s sister who is attending college in Pennsylvania
- Ethan – Jack’s twin brother who is the super popular captain of the dive team
I loved this book!
Emma Lord’s Tweet Cute is a witty, fast-paced, updated version of Nora Ephron’s 1998 film You’ve Got Mail…VERY updated. In the film, Kathleen Kelly (played by Meg Ryan) owns a small neighborhood bookshop, and Joe Fox (played by Tom Hanks) is in the family mega-bookstore business, which is opening nearby. While the store owners are rivals in real life, they have “met” each other in a chat room online, and Joe starts to give Kathleen business advice, not knowing who she really is. Every day, the love interests wait impatiently for a dial-up internet connection in order to exchange emails and eventually chat and develop a cyber romance while being enemies in real life.
In Tweet Cute, responses are instantaneous, and Pepper and Jack’s world can get turned upside down in the time it takes Jack to jump off the high dive. In real life, Pepper and Ethan continually butt heads over pool time as the respective captains of their teams, and Jack ends up being the go-between, opening the door for him and Pepper to become friends. In the virtual world, Pepper and Jack talk on the app that Jack developed and go head-to-head on their family business Twitter accounts. So many connections, and so much chaos!
We know these two are destined for love, and it’s so much fun taking the ride with them. This book is classified as Teens and Young Adult, but it’s an appealing story for adults as well.
So much fun! You’ll want to pick this one up.
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