Welcome to the Gen Z world! “Tweet Cute
From POTUS to your friendly neighborhood mailman; influencers with millions of followers to big corporations, also with millions of followers, Twitter is used for real time conversations using 140 characters.
And guess what, it seems that Gen Z is the generation that has gotten it down pat! Demographers had pinned their birth years as beginning the mid-1990s (as in 1995) which separated them from Millennials (born 1980 – 1994). When they were born, the internet already existed, hence Gen Z became the first generation to be very comfortable in the online world especially social media.
Meet our Gen Z’ers – Pepper Evans and Jack Campbell, high school students in one of the premiere private schools in Manhattan. While Jack is a native New Yorker, Pepper is a transplant from Tennessee. Jack’s family owns a small but very popular family-ran deli in downtown Manhattan. Pepper on the other hand is heiress to the national-soon-to-be-international franchise Big League Burger.
Pepper and Jack did not know that about each other. Yes, they were rivals in school but for entirely different reasons. And, no, there was no romance between them either. They were just annoyed with each other all of the time.
But an act by Pepper’s mother changed that innocence. A tweet from Big League Burger’s Twitter account was a hit below the belt for Jack’s family’s deli. With Big League Burger having millions of followers and the Campbell’s @GirlCheesing account just in a few thousand, a tweet like that can destroy them.
So, Jack tweeting as @GirlCheesing replied with enough snark that it caught the attention of other influencers in other social media platforms. Big League Burger needed to reply, and Pepper was recruited by her mother to be at the frontlines. It looks like a David and Goliath battle. Or was it?
With Pepper and Jack running the Twitter war (which was unbeknown to them in the beginning), other influencers noticed. So, that little battle of snark became an all-out conflict!
Not surprisingly, to a reader like me, the Twitter war was the main dish of this book. Pepper and Jack are the desserts. Both are so lovable and huggable; they are like teddy bears. And yes, I know that author Emma Lord was actually the one “writing the tweets” and to use an expression, “boy howdy!” those tweets were great, albeit it was a fictional Twitter war.
A fun book to read with many LOL moments, “Tweet Cute
For romance junkies, remember that this book is YA, which says it all. But, there are lots of sigh worthy moments, too though they are PG. Nevertheless, don’t pass up this book because there are no steamy scenes. Pepper and Jack are memorable characters, it will be a shame if you don’t meet them.
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A fun book to read with many LOL moments, “Tweet Cute” should be in your TBR list. If you are going to read only one book this spring, then it should be “Tweet Cute.”
Title: Tweet Cute
Author: Emma Lord
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Wednesday Books
Teens & YA
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.
