Thank you to NetGalley and One More Chapter for the opportunity to read an advance copy of this book.

2.5 stars rounded down
First of all, The Typo is not at all a romance, so if that's what you're looking for, this isn't it. This was so slow and boring for the first half that I almost gave up. The email correspondence kept me going. It did pick up the pace a lot in the second half, and I liked how Amy changed but wish we had gotten to know Cameron more. But then, that ending?? So abrupt and leaves you with questions. Did Cameron end up moving to Edinburgh? What happened with them between the time at the castle and the gallery show? How did they get over the dishonesty between them so quickly? (On a side note, does Amy ever go to Australia?) The most positive thing I can say about this book is: thanks for the reminder about the Edinburgh Zoo penguin cam. Not badly written, not a horrible story, but so much unrealized potential.

The Typo is just ok. I was happy when I was approved for this book on NetGalley, because I was in the mood for something light, and funny, but this wasnt that. I am sure this story would do better in an audiobook format because I found the skipping around between the email discussions and Amy's IRL discussions and experiences to be choppy and I couldnt get to place where I connected with the characters. I like the author so I will still look for other books by her, but I may just stick to the audiobooks.

Thank you NetGalley and The Typo publishers for the eARC!

Thank you to Netgalley and One More Chapter, Harper Collins for allowing me to read The Typo by Emily Kerr.

This was a really sweet romance about a violinist/marketing manager at an Edinburgh Theatre. Amy Cameron finds herself forwarding a misdirected email enquiry to the intended recipient, wildlife photographer, Cameron. They begin to have an endearing email response, but Amy finds herself embellishing her life to sound a little bit more interesting.

I thought this was an adorable romance, with a very wholesome plot. Amy's feelings about life in her twenties are relatable to me, and likely to a lot of other twenty-somethings who will read this. She worries that she has failed in her creative career, and that she has let down her family. She worries that her friends are drifting away from her, and she struggles to relate to them, now that their lives have all gone down different paths.

We are invited in to Amy's life, living alone in Edinburgh, opposite her elderly neighbour and his two cats. This is a rich description, which is developed as the book goes on. By the end of it, I found myself fully immersed in Amy's life.

Kerr also writes thoughtfully about loneliness. At the beginning of the book, Amy's low mood, insecurities, and loneliness affected me. I felt deeply empathetic about her situation. This made her journey all the more engaging and convincing.

I found it refreshing to read a romance which struck a good balance between the all important love story of the two love interests, and the character arc of the protagonist, Amy. Our shy, and insecure protagonist starts the novel with a pathological fear of playing her violin, and ends the story having founded a band, having revitalised her theatre's arts scene, and also, she has fallen in love. She is confident at communicating, and has rediscovered her long lost love for music.

Thank you so much Netgalley and of course Emily Kerr for the ARC 🌷

I had pretty big expectations from this book, the premise sounded very good and it disappointed me.

I really wanted to like it but I could not continue, the story was boring.

I will still try other books from this author but for this one, unfortunately, it is DNF.

Cute read.

I liked Amy and Cameron, but I had a hard time connecting with them and their story. I like the storyline, it was a bit different than the norm, but I just couldn't get excited about it. It was well written, I just would have liked a bit more back story on the characters and something that I could *feel*.

Thank you NetGalley and publishers for the eARC!

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I liked the descriptions of both Edinburgh and the Antarctic. The characters were interesting and the story charming. Well worth reading and thoroughly recommended.

This was a very enjoyable book. The banter was perfect and I loved the banter. The plot was very well thought out.

Amy’s life is quaint enough but she feels lonely in a city surrounded by people. When a wrong email is sent her way she is left with a choice -delete or reply. How often have we been sent something by accident and how could that change the course of our lives? Amy decides to take a chance and reach out to the individual who she believes the intended recipient of the email is, a photographer named Cameron. In a time when correspondence is sparse, the relationship that picks up between Amy and Cameron after the chance email is refreshing to read, albeit a little slow. The Typo is an absolutely delightful read that allows us to take a few minutes and enjoy the universe's bigger plan for us. In the end, how do our expectations line up with reality and is it all worth it?

4/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Review is posted on Goodreads and will be on Instagram in April closer to publication date!

ARC REVIEW (thanks NETGALLEY !)

DNF @ 20%
I live and breath for epistolary romances! They’re few and far between so when I saw the blurb I immediately requested. But this I’m sorry, I was just bored. Maybe if we were getting a dual POV my opinion would be different but it just kind of seems monotonous. Amy & Cameron seem like they’re the same person talking to themselves. Other reviews for this book I’ve peeked at say that they don’t meet until 90% in, I cant hold out that long! Better luck next time I guess.

What a different kind of story . I loved it. Set in Edinburg. A wrong email set off an amazing chain of events, Confidence re gained, falling in love, following your dream, picking up your violin again, saving a theatre , making your family happy and helping a neighbour. Also two cute cats. Read it.. Fab read

3.5/5 ⭐️ - rounded down for feeling unfinished
What a cute, fun, fast read. This is definitely a one-sit read. The beginning of the book does start slow, but once you start getting more into the email aspect, the book flys by. The banter is cute, but did feel as though it was "insta-love". I wish the world building and explaining more about their lives in the emails was more prominent, instead of being bogged down with the inaccurate information given.

Additionally, when you get to the end, the ending feels so abrupt. Everything just stops at once, and you do not get an ending to most of the characters. Will this be a series? It did not feel like there was enough of the side characters information to give them their own books, but to leave them with no ending at all felt... off.

The biggest downside is that I believe the misunderstanding/lying trope is my least favorite. Being insecure is one thing, but to change your entire backstory just rubs me the wrong way.

Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC!

This was just great. It has a random mix of emails, work conversations, music and animals that are woven together beautifully and absolutely grabbed my attention. The amazing snowy Antarctic is described in its loneliness as well as the nature but also the seasickness, the issues with penguin poop and the baaaaad internet connection. Amy is delightful and her bravery in endearing, be that in her job, in her music or ultimately in her romance. The stars are her neighbours two cats, quickly followed by her ninety year old neighbour himself. Yay for honesty and being brave.

The Typo is a sweet romance between two strangers on different continents who develop a connection over e-mail. When Amy receives an e-mail that is clearly for another person, she does a bit of googling, comes up with a likely person who should have had the message and forwards it on. A penpal-type correspondence between two lonely people ensues.
The reader gets to know Amy’s character really well as the story follows her journey on both the work and personal front. She was in such a bad place at the start and it was so good to see her eventually regain her confidence. More development of Cameron’s character would have been an improvement as the story seemed a bit one-sided.

Thanks Netgalley for allowing me to read this book. Amy life has been crazy. She receives correspondence that was sent to her in error. She finds this guy intriguing. I enjoyed the chemistry between Amy and Cameron.

Such a cute, fun read! The Typo had such an interesting premise and both Cameron and Amy were likeable main characters. I really enjoyed their interactions, although I did skim read over some of their emails. The middle of the book was a little slow but the ending was cute and I thought Amy’s character arc was well written and rounded.

This was such a cozy, sweet book. I hated when I had to stop reading it to do something else and wanted to get back to it as soon as possible. I enjoyed so much the back and forth between Amy and Cameron, but I do wish they'd met a little earlier. They met kind of late in the book. But I thought this book was really well done and interesting without being obvious or common or cliche.

Amy Cameron accidentally receives an email intended for a 'Cameron A', so with a quick google search she forwards the email onto him, which starts an unlikely friendship. Amy shares what it's like being a violinist playing on the big stages and Cameron, his travels around the Antartica taking pictures. Unfortunately, Amy hasn't actually picked up the violin in two years and she works in a small theatre as their marketing and communications person. What happens when Cameron suggests they meet? Will she admit that she's been 'stretching' the truth? And is Cameron everything he said he was?

To say I'm extremely disappointed by this book is an understatement. There was so much potential and the writer made what could have been a very interesting plot, extremely boring.

1. This book has a slow start, and I can see readers losing interest quickly. The author really should have tried to get the stories (Amy & Cameron love story, as well as Amy's journey) going a lot quicker. Instead the first 30% of this book is just Amy's inner thoughts, which to be quite honest were extremely boring and repetitive.
2. Amy & Cameron don't actually meet until the 91% mark... and we get two underwhelming chapters with them. I don't feel like I know Cameron, which made it even harder to connect to the story.
3. The ending - I felt like we were missing a satisfying conclusion to ANYTHING in this book. How did Amy and Cameron move forward as a couple after lying to each other? How did Amy and her musical group get on? What happened with Harry and the cats? How did Amy move on with her terrible friends? I was honestly gobsmacked by the ending because the book felt like it just stopped right when things were getting good.

The fact that this is getting published at all blows my mind. The first 30% and the last 20% need to be completely rewritten in my opinion, and we need a few chapters with Amy & Cameron rather than their lacklustre first meeting and 7 page epilogue.

I received an advanced copy for free through NetGalley, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

this was such a fun and charming rom-com!! i breezed right through the story, found myself laughing out loud at several points, and enjoyed every moment of it.

thank you so so much to harpercollins uk and netgalley for the arc copy in exchange for my review!

The Typo by Emily Kerr is a fun read and well worth the time.

Amy gets an email meant for Cameron and she hunts him down to make sure he gets it, as its an invitation to apply for a prestigious photo exhibit. He replies and that starts their relationship. They develop a friendship and then more as they share themselves via email correspondence and we watch Amy bloom and become her true self through this.

I love books that do this. I think it takes a very talented writer to make characters believable and likeable when there isn't a direct, in person connection and Ms. Kerr does it very well.

Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion. Everything I've written is my own opinion.

I’m completely charmed by this novel: it was a sweet, romantic, inspired and fun read.
Our main heroine, Amy, who works in a theatre venue in Edinburgh, accidentally receives and email meant for someone else. When she passes it to the correct recipient, they start to correspond with one another and grow closer together. Amy gets inspired to come out of her shell and get back to the things she loves, meet new people and make friends and challenge herself. But because the inspiration strikes only after she “embellished” her life and herself a bit in the initial emails, she’s bot feeling guilty and trying to love up to the image of herself she painted for the stranger.
I found the letters exchanged between Amy and Cameron absolutely delightful. His descriptions of ship life, wildlife and participants of the expedition were charming and funny, while Amy’s emails were warm and cosy, made me feel like a weighted blanket over my heart.
The character development of Amy felt organic and relatable. She lied about herself because she wanted to seem more interesting than her life seemed to her at the moment and who didn’t do that at least once in online interactions?! She tried her best to meet up the challenges she set for herself while trying to become the “Amy 2.0” and did it even though she was riddled with fear. Once she was comfortable enough with herself and who she was, she honestly spoke about her actions and owned up to them. It felt rather refreshing, because usually such trope is concluded by all the lies blowing up in a main character’s face rather than a person confessing. That I really appreciated.
Another part of the story I really enjoyed was the character of Henry, who was charming and a really good and caring friend to Amy.
I feel the ending was a bit haste but other than that I have no criticism. It was an enjoyable book and I highly recommend it.

4,5/5 rounded up