My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
From the cover:
"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 may 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 that they were destined for the most unexpected, awkward, all-the-feels romance that neither of them expected."
Real talk, the description could be more accurate. It makes it sound like Pepper and Jack are in a heated battle and at each other's throats IRL. What actually happens is even better. Jack and Pepper start working together on swim/dive team stuff with no idea that they have been Twitter-warring with each other, but they realize pretty quickly that this is what's happening, and when Jack points out how good their Twitter battle has been for business at Girl Cheesing, they team up to keep it going in order to help Girl Cheesing stay in business.
The two clearly have a thing for each other, but both are torn about their feelings, since they also have a bit of a thing for the classmate they have been chatting with on Weazel, the anonymous chat app Jack built. Pepper doesn't know that Wolf, the guy she's been talking with all year, is Jack, and Jack tinkered with the app so that it wouldn't reveal to him Bluebird's identity. Jack and Pepper may have caught feelings for each other, but that's a little confusing when they each feel equally connected to someone online they think is a completely different person. Ah, to be a teenager again. I wouldn't go back, but I do love reading about being one and remembering what it was like.
Ultimately, the very very end of this was a little underwhelming for me (I'm talking like last-chapter stuff here), but every bit of the rest of it was perfection. I love Pepper, her snark and her drive, and I want to squeeze Jack and tell him to stop comparing himself to his twin, because he is wonderful. I also want to hang out with Grandma Belly basically any chance I can get. Real talk, I have a humongous stack of books waiting to be read during my social distancing, but it's incredibly tempting to ignore those in favor of rereading this immediately. It's a lovely, heart-warming read.
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