“You’ve Got Mail” gets a good successor in Emma Lord’s “Tweet Cute.” Pepper is a 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 the chain’s Twitter account. Jack is a 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 Pepper’s chain steals his grandma’s iconic grilled cheese recipe, he will 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. With every bit as adorable as it sounds plot twists and high school romance, this is a delightful read. Pepper and Jack are fully formed characters with fully formed families. Both teens face different pressures from their families. Even aside from the Twitter battle and all the lovely ways in which the two interact in real life, there is a lot of substance about dealing with families, deciding what you want for your own future outside of your parents and reaching for your goals. (SD-Agencies) |