Emma Lord – Cannonball Read 17

DNA app as plot device.

You Have a Match by Emma Lord

May 17, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 6/30 Reading this right after Perfect on Paper was probably a mistake, because I couldn’t help comparing the two of them, to this book’s detriment. But I don’t think this would have been a full four-star book for me, anyway. Parts of it I really liked, even loved, but then too much would happen all at once, and things got messy, and then were wrapped up very neatly. It just wasn’t as satisfying as it could have been. […]

A YA cautionary tale for those DNA sites

You Have A Match by Emma Lord

January 20, 2021 by J Leave a Comment

Alternate title I didn’t have the fortitude to go with: more like parentS trap (I’m funnier in real life.) As far as summer camp adventures go, hiding out at an academic grind sleepaway camp in order to get to know your SURPRISE FULL-BLOODED SISTER and avoid summer school is kind of… okay, I’m not sure it would have ever occurred to me to do it, but The Youth are better than me. So there’s Abby. She’s having a bad year. Her beloved grandfather passed. Her […]

Tweet Cute

Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

December 29, 2020 by Caitycat Leave a Comment

Tweet Cute is a cute little story about two teenagers falling in love through the Twitter accounts of their parents’ businesses. Pepper helps run the social media for her mother’s chain restaurant, Big League Burgers. Jack posts for his father’s small deli, Girl Cheesing. When Big League Burgers steals a grilled cheese recipe from the smaller restaurant, the Twitter war is on. Soon, people take notice, but they also start to ship the pair behind the accounts. Pepper and Jack aren’t exactly friends in real […]

A Warm Blanket of a YA Rom-Com. You’ve Got Mail 3000

Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

March 19, 2020 by Halbs Leave a Comment

This YA novel has everything: tweeting twins, grilled cheese sandwiches, Nashville girls baking feminist desserts, dive teams, teens crying, and celebrity endorsements. Tweet Cute by Emma Lord centers around Pepper and Jack, two high school seniors attending a swanky private school in Manhattan. While they live in a Gossip Girl-like world of swanky luxury, things don’t feel luxurious to the main characters. Pepper is a Nashville transplant, unsure of her place in NYC and in her own family. Her parents are recently divorced. Her father stayed in Nashville, […]

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