Thank you to Harper Collins - One More Chapter and Emma Kerr for the opportunity to review The Typo in exchange for a fair and honest review.

I love reading about stories set in Scotland, especially when the backdrop is one of my favourite cities on earth, Edinburgh. Emily Kerr does a fantastic job of bringing to life the bustle and vibrancy of the Edinburgh cultural scene with a very accurate description. In my mind, I quickly walked along the streets with Amy from the Royal Mile down to the streets of Leith.

The Typo is a sweet, easy-read romance from the POV of Amy, who accidentally receives an email meant for a photographer. After some detective work, she tracks down the mystery man, and an email penpal friendship begins between Cameron and Amy. They both tell a few fibs about their lives in emails, embellishing their lives with one another. Next, they suspect correspondence would lead to romance.
It is a strangers-to-lover, long-distance romance story with vibes of You've Got Mail without the enemies-to-lovers dynamic. I love how the friendship between Cameron and Amy inspired them to take risks and get out of their comfort zones in relationship to the things they wanted in life and their dreams. Everyone should have a friend who encourages them to be their best self and supports their goals. Everything comes easily and gets wrapped up neatly. I would have liked a little more conflict resolution and push for Amy to conquer her flaws and insecurities, as it's never that simple.

I found Amy and Cameron likable, relatable characters as they shared their lives in emails. You don't get much face time with Cameron. This was the only downside for me. I could relate to Amy's position with her friends who have settled and lived different lives. Not sure you would find many people living alone in Leith unless they owned the property, as house prices in Edinburgh and rents are freaking ridiculous at the moment.

The chemistry between Amy and Cameron is hard to judge as most of the interactions were by email until the big meeting scene at Edinburgh Castle. A bit of page time for them to be in person might have given their chemistry a little more sizzle – they proclaim their love after a couple of minutes of meeting. I get it, though. People form attachments and attractions with online dating through a few photographs and words. Instalove is a worrying, needy red flag of low self-esteem. It needs to be accepted and wanted by others for all the wrong reasons. I would have loved to see this book as a dual POV to see more of Cameron's world, thoughts, and reactions to Amy's email.

A simple, fun read, but the ending was a bit rushed. I would have loved to see more of Amy and Cameron interacting face-to-face. Be prepared to book a trip to Edinburgh after reading this book. It will inspire your imagination to visit the Athens of the North.

I really enjoyed this crazy story. It's a great storyline and the idea of a typo leading to conversations which could make Amy smile when she was struggling with work.

Can they fall In love having only had conversations by email. Having seem many episodes of Catfish and being in a similar position myself I found this really interesting and the stress of waiting for a response so relatable.

I loved the story line and Amy is a great character, she's got great ideas for the Theatre and her ideas are not well taken by her boss.

It's so exciting wondering if they are going to meet and fall hopelessly in love.

This book just wasn’t for me… I found the characters quite boring and I just found myself not really caring what happened between them. I was excited about the premise as I haven’t read a book with this trope before, however it just didn’t live up to my hopes on this occasion!

Thank you NetGalley and publisher for this ARC publication for an honest review.

The premise for this book had one I typically love...pen pals who become more through their correspondence, leading to a true-life meeting and love connection.

Sad sigh. The execution left me wanting something more. I just didn't connect with our leads or the correspondence or Amy and Cameron's meeting in real life. What could have been an adorable "You've Got Mail" kind of story just didn't follow through.

2 stars

The Typo is an uplifting read with a lot of interesting information about life in the Antarctic and in theatre land. I found the email exchange a bit forced and whimsical at times but overall I enjoyed Amy's story of getting over a lack of self belief and building her confidence and her social circle. I found the ending a bit too contived and mushy but it's still a good read.

Cameron and Amy meet virtually due to a typo in an email address. Both are presenting their best lives to each other and not necessarily the truth, so what will happen when it is time to meet in real life? A fun read.

Emily Kerr’s books are always enjoyable but I loved that this building relationship happened primarily over email. Reading how Amy’s friends were treating her was evoking, as was the way her confidence slowly built with the help of her pen pal to allow her to achieve what she had dreamt of all along. It would have been lovely to have another chapter with more of Amy and Cameron in real life but I enjoyed it all the same. Thank you netgalley.

I felt really drained reading this book and I did have to DNF at 46% as I could feel myself getting into a reading slump.
The characters weren't interesting enough and the story didn't grab my attention from the start.

There’s so much to love about The Typo. Firstly there is the light, witty email exchange between Amy and Cameron, she telling him about things like watching the Edinburgh Zoo penguins on a webcam, while he tells her about Rockhopper penguins stealing pebbles from each other in Antarctica. I loved Amy and Cameron as people too. We saw very little of Cameron apart from through his emails, yet it was easy to get a good semse of him as a character. Amy was present on nearly every page, in her emails, in her mentally-draining, dead-end job at the failing Edinburgh Variety Theatre and in her flat, where sheis clearly afraid of picking up the violin languishing in a corner. I could easily imagine her embelishing her life to try to seem more interesting to Cameron, who in her eyes is living a life of adventure far more interesting than her humdrum one. I could feel her growing guilt too. I loved the way she learned to face her fears and reclaim the life she lost two years earlier. For both Amy and Cameron this is a story about not only finding love but also seizing their dreams. This story is emotional at times, funny at others and a fantastic read from start to finish.

Unfortunately I did not enjoy my time reading this novel. I was intrigued by the premise as I like these type of pen pal stories, but the emails exchanged lacked chemistry and weren’t very romantic. It would have been nice if they met earlier and we saw more of them as a couple. I just didn’t feel connected to the romance or characters, and the writing was dry.

One thing I did like though was Amy’s sense of feeling left out of her social group and being behind her peers. It’s something I think a lot of people can relate to, and her feelings of loneliness were palpable.

This is such a cute read! I love books where it’s email/letters correspondence and this one is just a fun and easy read.
There were times where I feel like there’s too much description and it’s a bit slow but overall, I’d say this is very enjoyable and really got me picturing the vibes of Edinburgh 🤭

Unfortunately I had such high hopes for this one but it just wasn't for me. I found the story to be a little too slow and didn't really gel with either of the characters..

I really wanted to love this book. Don't get me wrong, the ending was great. But the pace of the book was too slow for my liking and it honestly was somewhat boring getting there. Still, I could see this book being loved by a group of patrons at my library though.

Unfortunately this book was not for me and I had to give up at the halfway point. I feel like so many people will enjoy this and will enjoy the back and forth from the mmc and fmc but I couldn't get invested.

I always love books with this trope and The Typo was no exception. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, both the characters and storyline were great.

I was struck by the poignant shift in Amy's social circle when her friends entered into relationships, causing a change in their behaviour towards her. The small error in the book that sparked a series of emails between Amy and Cameron was a delightful detail that brought a smile to my face. Their interactions had a charming and distinctly British quality. Amy's job at the bar and her friendly relationship with Malcolm, her colleague, added a sense of warmth to the tale. If you are looking for a heartwarming read without any explicit content, I would highly recommend this book. However, I do have to mention that the pacing of the story felt a bit slow at times.

The evolution of Amy's social dynamics underscored how romantic relationships can impact friendships, revealing the intricacies of human connections. The typo that initiated the email exchange between the characters acted as a catalyst for their developing bond, injecting a light-hearted element into the plot. Amy's role at the bar not only offered a glimpse into her character but also set the stage for her deepening bond with Malcolm, emphasizing the significance of workplace relationships. For those in search of a gentle and uplifting read, this book is an excellent choice for its focus on tender moments and the absence of explicit material. Despite its strengths, readers accustomed to faster-paced stories may find the narrative's leisurely speed requires some patience.

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Unfortunately, this was a DNF for me. Nothing was seeming to work for me with this book. I couldn't stay engaged and was bored to tears.

Amy is living very much her second-best life, working in theatre admin with a behind-the-times boss and not thinking about the violin case in the corner of her sitting room, her music career lost thanks to a mysterious incident and her friends all moving on into coupledom and babies. So when she receives an incorrectly addressed email offering a photographer and exhibition, tracks him down and starts emailing with him, her life becomes more interesting - mainly because she makes it so by claiming to be not quite what she actually is.

Beseiged by guilt and falling in love by email, she sets out to adjust her own life to match the illusion she's created and in turn opens up her vulnerability to make new friends in a lovely colleague and a sweet older neighbour (he has two cats; the cats remain fine through the book). Will Amy and Cameron ever meet, is there more to his Antarctic adventures than he's letting on, and will her half-truths catch up with her?

I love the theatre setting and the details of Amy's work to turn its fortunes around; as usual with Kerr you get well-researched background details as well as romance and plot.

4.5 stars from me

Review publishing 15 May https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2024/05/15/book-review-emily-kerr-the-typo/

I was super excited for this book after reading the synopsis, but sadly it already lost me almost three chapters in.

It started out so slow that I ended up skimming the pages, waiting for it to pick up a little. Then, when we finally got to the emailing part, I was excited again, only to lose interest with every new email.

With this being a romance, I was expecting three to be, well, romance. But every single email felt so extremely formal I felt like I was reading something for work instead of for pleasure, which is really sad because there was so much potential there.

I forced myself to keep reading and will say I enjoyed the ending, I'm just disappointed in how we got there.

Thank you to Netgalley, Harper Collins UK and One More Chapter for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is a romance book with no romance and unfortunately I did not enjoy it. What’s meant to be a budding romance between Amy and Cameron starts due to a typo in an email address. Their romance slowly continues through emails, but these emails were lacking the chemistry and romance I would want in a romance book. It’s hard to create a romance by email between two people who’ve never met. I think I would’ve liked it more if we got they met and we got to see their relationship develop by email after they already met. Also without the emails I feel like Amy talks very little about Cameron and her feelings for him and it’s more so focused on her job.

Overall, I did not like this romance book with no romance.