Title: Tweet Heart {a novel in e-mails, blogs and tweets}Author: Elizabeth Rudnick
Published: June 29, 2010
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Pages: 264 (Paperback)
Website: http://elizabethrudnick.com
This YA romance novel, told mostly in tweets with a few e-mails and blog posts thrown in, is about Claire (@claireRbear) and her three friends Lottie (@Lots0Love), Bennett (@KingofSlack) and Will (@WiseOneWP). Claire is freaking out a bit because she has just been made the school's new advice columnist. The only problem is that she has no clue about life or love, in fact, that would be her best friend, Lottie. Boy-crazy and sporty lacrosse captain, Lottie. But Claire decides to give the column a try. And when her longtime crush, JD Whitcomb, starts following her on Twitter, everything seems great. Until everything gets all tangled up like these tend to do. Why won't JD talk to her at school? Why's he acting like he doesn't know who he is or like he forgets the things they tweeted about? Is JD as perfect as she thought he was?
The biggest con to this story is its predictability. So, it doesn't have a mind-blowing plot. We all need a light, fluffy, cute book to read now and then. And this was a great one. I loved the characters. I loved reading Bennett's blog and Claire's advice answers (they were very funny). Lottie was a great foil to Claire and Bennett and Will reflected their relationship. I may just be a sucker for this type of hopeless romance book (as I could identify a little too well with Claire's character) but I enjoyed reading this immensely. It was very short (264 pages) and, with the majority being written in tweets, goes very quickly. I got it around noon on the 28th and finished it that night. And that wasn't me sitting down to read it, that was just reading whenever I got a chance while we ran errands and looked for bedding for my parents' new bed.
If you're looking for a realistic fiction, YA romance novel that'll have you going "aww", this is one of the best I've read in a long time. The fact that I liked this novel so much is even more surprising because I usually hate realistic fiction. So...take that how you will.
Yours in language and literature,
MoonChild
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