Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an advance copy in return for an honest review.

This is an enjoyable tale about two people whose paths cross when an email apparently meant for one of them is accidentally sent to the other. They get to know each other via the emails they send to each other after this initial mix-up. Meanwhile our female lead Amy is trying to find her way in Edinburgh's performing arts scene, hoping to regain her confidence after a setback.

It's a bit hard for a modern novel to keep the lead characters apart in a way that means they can only write letters to each other, so our male lead is of course on a boat in the Antarctic, with spotty internet signal.

The story is good fun and the supporting cast of characters are interesting.

I really wanted to like this book. I loved the idea of it and I think, because of my expectations, it fell flat.

I was expecting a romance. Instead, it feels more like contemporary fiction that has a slight romantic edge. The emails traded weren’t flirty or anything like that but two people getting to know each other in almost a platonic way? Because of this, these emails end up feeling like a very long introduction and by the time the story feels like it might start, it’s actually nearly the end of the book.

Thank you Netgalley for the complementary copy of this title in return of an honest review.
I was excited to read this based on the premise. I hate to say it because I don't like to leave negative reviews, but this book was just not for me. It felt like it was mostly filler with very little story. I would definitely classify this as women's fiction with a little bit of romance.
It is the story of Amy who receives an email by mistake. She forwards it to a different A. Cameron and they begin writing each other and form a bond. But she isn't being completely honest. It's more so about her maturing and accepting herself.

Amy Cameron is going through a rough patch. There are problems at her boring job, her friends are focused on their own lives and her dream of being a violinist disappeared a few years ago. One day she receives an email with an exciting job offer, but it's not for her, it's for "cameron.a". Determined that this man will not miss the opportunity, she decides to look him up on the internet and contact him to send him the mail. And that's how they start talking and end up forging a beautiful friendship.

The only problem is that Cameron lives a life full of adventures on an expedition to Antarctica and Amy lives a boring one in Edinburgh. So, she decides to make hers a little more exciting in the mails. But what happens when you fall in love with someone you don't know... and that person falls in love with someone who isn't exactly who they say they are?

What will we find?
📤 Online penpals
❤️ Friends to lovers
🎻 Fake identity

This book started out very interesting but ended up creating a reading block for me ☹. There have been a lot of things I expected different. First, the romance. It's barely there. Amy and Cameron talk in their emails very formally, and the fact that there's no flirting between them makes it seem more like a coworker relationship. And the not meeting each other until near the end of the book has made it feel like the whole story was like a very long introduction to get to where the important stuff starts...except it doesn't start, it ends.
Secondly, the characters. I couldn't empathize with any of them. In fact, I even felt sorry for Amy, because her group of friends are horrible, and she still thinks they're wonderful. Girl, get out of there!

And third, the pace. Despite not being a very long book, at times it was too slow for me, and I had a hard time moving forward with the reading. Maybe this is since, as I mentioned before, hardly anything happens, so I felt like I was reading the same thing repeatedly and I didn't make any progress.

I'm really bummed because I thought I would really like it (it had all the elements I love), but I’m kinda disappointed.

However, I hope to read some more by the author in the future 😊.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

Rating: 2.75 ⭐

I just... eh. It wasn't for me. I expected a lot more romance and I feel like it just wasn't there. The first half dragged a bit and then the ending fell a bit flat.

Thank you so much to Emily Kerr and HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter for the eARC of this title. This was a first read for me from Emily. She has a great writing style. This book moved a bit too slow for me and felt a bit anti-climatic. I feel as if it could've used a bit more romance in it as well. This is definitely one you'll have to read to find out if it is your style.

ARC via NetGalley

"It’s going to be a big change, but sometimes you’ve got to feel the fear, and do it anyway,"

not so white lies
accidental email
looong distance relationship
finding yourself again

Mein Leseerlebnis

Die Liebesgeschichte wirkte auf mich angenehm geschrieben und durchaus frisch. Eine an die falsche E-Mail-Adresse gesendete, wichtige Nachricht als Aufhänger für das Buch zu nehmen, fand ich spannend.

E-Mails werden darauf aufbauend als wichtiges Kommunikationsmittel zwischen Heldin und Held eingesetzt, das hat für mich allerdings nicht perfekt funktioniert. Die Schreibstile der beiden Hauptcharaktere hörten sich für mich etwas zu ähnlich an, um mich voll überzeugen zu können.

Der Verlauf des Liebesromans hat mich in Bezug auf einen Punkt zudem etwas überrascht und dass leider nicht positiv. Ich will nicht zu viel verraten, da die entsprechende Sache im Klappentext nicht angedeutet wird, aber man sollte kein Problem mit Hauptcharakteren haben, die die Wahrheit manchmal etwas dehnen.

Blicke ich auf mein Leseerlebnis zurück, so fand ich die Geschichte größtenteils ganz nett, so richtig mitreißen konnte sie mich aber leider nicht.

🖤🖤🖤

Für wen?

Für wen sich Liebesgeschichten faszinierend anhören, in denen sich die beiden Hauptcharaktere zunächst über E-Mails kennenlernen, für den könnte “The typo” einen Versuch wert sein.

This book shouldn’t be branded as a romance book in my opinion which is why the review is lower. Because of the lack of romance I was disappointed as I expected something different

I really enjoyed this book, however unlike other Emily Kerr novels I thought this one was a bit anti climatic.

There was a mini resolution for the characters but it didn't conclude most of the points for Amy as an individual just them as a couple. I'd rather have had a proper ending for Amy to show how her brave paid off.

Good book, but the ending let it down.

I enjoyed reading The Typo by Emily Kerr. It had all of the You’ve Got Mail vibes I was hoping it would have with no spice or bad language.

Thank you to HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter, and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

DNF.

The pacing of this book was too slow for my liking. I'm a huge fan of romance-centric or romance-inclusive books, accounting for about 90% of my reading choices. From my viewpoint, "The Typo" didn't fit into the romance genre.I initially had high expectations for this book based on its intriguing premise, but it didn't live up to them. Despite my early optimism, I struggled to stay engaged with the story. While I'm willing to explore other books by this author in the future, I couldn't complete this one. A big thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter for the eARC.

Thank you to One More Chapter and NetGalley for the ARC of The Typo in exchange for an honest and independent review.

This one was really tough for me to both review, and quite honestly finish. While I could see where the theme of the book was headed, the path to get there was so painfully dull. I can typically fly through a book in a day or two, but this one just could not hold my attention for anything over 20 minutes, which truly pains me to say.

In a case of intentional mistaken identity, Amy accidentally receives an email to her inbox meant for a professional photographer, who happens to hold a strikingly similar email to hers. With good intentions, Amy forwards the email to who she believes is the correct correspondent, Cameron. Cameron is a photographer on an expedition to Antarctica with a group enthusiasts when he begins an email relationship with Amy spanning several weeks.

Amy, who seems to be struggling with her purpose in life after falling out of love with playing the violin, assumes a false persona while writing to Cameron where she makes herself out to be everything she’s ever wanted for herself, on paper. With a deep sense of guilt, Amy then tries to live up to the person she’s portrayed herself to be to Cameron, as it is only fair.

Honestly, the storyline between emails is incredibly mundane and rather boring. I know that seems harsh, but nothing about it held my attention. If I didn’t have to keep rereading sections that I quickly forgot or fell asleep reading, I could have finished this book days sooner. As it stands, I believe this storyline had the best intentions, but fell vastly short for me. I needed something to hold on to and look forward to, but it just wasn’t there. A solid 2.5/5 stars, rounding down.

NetGalley ARC

I didn’t see this so much as a romance book or that part of the story was lacking but I appreciated the character development and story line of the main character and overcoming failure

1 ⭐
DNF at 18%

First of all,i want to thank to NetGalley and HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter for sending me this book in exchange for an honest review. I honestly haven't connected with ANY of the characters at all (perhaps the most "interesting" character may have been our protagonist Amy. It made me quite sad to see the bad friends she has, her boss who is horrible, and a neighbor who only takes advantage of her to take care of his cats (it's funny because right now I'm also taking care of my neighbor's cats hahaha)

On the other hand, I haven't been too enthusiastic about Cameron's character either, besides the fact that he takes almost 6 pages just to talk about penguins and whales? Idk I would have preferred them to have some more conversations, like normal maybe??

This is a cute read for fans of the movie You've Got Mail.

I enjoyed the characters but the book got a bit dragged out until the ending which happened very quickly - seemed to be missing a few details

Really cool premise and a cute story. Unfortunately I found the plot progression quite slow, although I did enjoy the emails back and forth. I wanted more of a romance (and was expecting one based off the cover and description) than I got. I would still give another book by this author a chance though.

Thank you NetGalley and HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was my first book from Emily Kerr, and it fell a bit flat for my taste.

I never DNF books, but it was a struggle to not do it while reading this one.

While I could connect with the MFC about anxiety, stress and constant fears in life, I thought the personality of our both MC could have been better developed. Actually, we get so little of Cameron that I don't consider him quite a MC.. Maybe we should've had a dual POV?

There was something missing in the plot that I can't quite put my finger on, but maybe the theatre setting isn't for me.

Also, where was the romance really? Only in the last chapters do we get a glimpse of it. Really was expecting more of the "you've got mail" vibes, and more of the romance flourishing, but nope.

This is my first book by this author. Overall I thought it was ehh

The book itself had tropes of:

🩷rom com
🖤You got mail vibes
🩷stranger to lovers
🖤meet cute Esq

the book look me a oit to get Involved in it and once I was I found the story overall ehh, a little enjoyable. The female main character, Amy has her feet on the solid ground she received an email definitely not intended for her and forwards it to the person she suspects it's for... this is how she meets Cameron.
Cameron, receives her email and decides to correspond with her and they really have the cutest meet cute, and corresponding. They really got to know each other through their communication.
They finally do meet face to face and both have their own personal struggles with insecurities. They were both hiding some secrets as well. How can they continue forward and move on from the secrets?
A cute heartwarming story but that's about it.

First of all - thank you to NetGalley, HC and OneMoreChapter for gifting me this book!

At first it was hard to get into the book, but I was still enjoying the emails Cameron and Amy kept exchanging.

After like 40% of this book I really got into the story and wanted to know more about Amy’s violin background and her past. The emails they exchanged were lovely and sometimes quite funny.

🌸I’m sending all my best anti-vomiting vibes your way.🌸

As the story progressed it was obvious from the way they emailed each other, that both of them started feeling things for each other.

The ending was unexpected and it fitted into the story so well!

I have enjoyed reading this book. It was witty, engaging and the ending was sweet 🩷