📚ARC Review 📚

The Typo ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Amy Cameron receives a wrongly addressed email about an upcoming competition for photographs. After doing some online research she finds Cameron A. who takes pretty landscaping pictures. Knowing this email should have went to him, she forwards it and wishes him luck. They continue to communicate with each other through emails and video calls since Amy is in Edinburgh and Cameron is on a ship in the Antarctic. Wanting to impress Cameron, Amy lies about what she does for a living. But when Cameron wants to meet her in person, she doesn’t know whether to tell him the truth or not.

Overall, this one was just ok for me. I wished there were more of a connection in the email threads they had. I loved the idea of reading them but the cute banter just wasn’t there. They didn’t meet til the end of the book and even then they didn’t have the greatest chemistry. I don’t know, something was just off for me.

This book publishes on May 3, 2024. Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter for my advanced readers copy. This is my honest and voluntary opinion.

Beware- most of this novel is in emails. Emails between Amy, in Edinburgh, and Cameron in Antarctica. I found it to be a fine conceit- it's unlikely friends to lovers but it's very slow burn. As interesting, though, is watching Amy come out of her shell as the relationship blooms. Thanks to netgalley for the ARC. There's not a lot of depth here but it's a light enjoyable read.

Pen pals from miles away
After a wrongly sent email two people grow closer over emails.
Can you really fall in love with someone just over emails?

I have mixed feelings about this story because whilst it was easy to read and I enjoyed the strangers to friends to lovers development, it all felt a bit too slow for my liking. It was a lot lighter on the romance than I expected. I’m not sure it fully fits into the romance genre for me. The only romance we see is a bit of light flirting in the emails and then the epilogue set a few months later where they are together.
I preferred focusing on the story of Amy regaining her confidence, saving the theatre and rediscovering her passion for playing the violin.
The ending was a bit of a letdown, it felt rushed and a bit unresolved (particularly the parts of her quitting her marketing job at the theatre and the random revelation from Cameron) 🤷🏻‍♀️
This book might not have been my cup of tea, but may be for any contemporary romance fans looking for something light and easy.

Amy receives an e mail which she realises isn't for her. After some searching she forwards it to a man called Cameron.
They start to email each other but Cameron is on an Antarctic expedition and Amy is working at a theatre in Edinburgh.
They tell each other their stories and plan to meet but what will reality bring?

This book is a charming, light read but nothing epic. Amy and Cameron meet online after an e-Mail is sent to the wrong Address. After a brief exchange of e-mails they quickly hit it off and their relationships start to grow.

I hated how self-conscious and depressed amy was at the beginning of the book. I was so happy to see her grow into herself and start being happy again, but I was sad that it was a guy that got her out of her slump.

The relationship between Amy and Cameron didn’t feel very special or romantic until the very end of the book.. I guess I just wanted more romance. A relationship based on emails for 85% of a book was just to slow for me.

I do want to thank NetGalley and The Author, Emily Kerr for allowing me an advanced reader copy of The Typo.

This was a gripping read, I thought the characters were intriguing and I'm going to keep an eye out for more from this author.

The premise was promising but unfortunately did not deliver with this one. The story took too long to get into and I found myself drifting/skim reading. I have enjoyed the author’s other’s books and like her writing style but this one just did not connect with me. 2 🌟.

It was a cute book but not my favorite. I had moments I really enjoy but it’s just not one of those books I’m going to keep thinking about or probably reread.

I liked the sound of this one with Amy and Cameron meeting each other over email when one receives a wrongly addressed email which should have gone to the other. Amy is in Edinburgh and Cameron is on board a ship on an Antarctic Expedition, but they continue to communicate with each other through emails and video calls, getting to like each other more.

I have to admit I did struggle with this book. What appeared at first glance to be a cute, romantic, strangers to lovers type read fell a little short for me and I found, after the first couple of chapters, the storyline to be quite slow and lacked any kind of romance. I loved the idea of the book, but it failed to hold my interest - sorry!

When an email lands in Amy Cameron's inbox inviting her to submit photographs to an upcoming competition, she knows something wrong. She's not a photographer (she is a.cameron, the potential photographer is cameron.a). Cameron A strikes up a correspondence with Amy, in which she learns he's a photographer on an Antarctic expedition. Wanting to match his accomplishments, Amy paints a picture of herself as a professional musician with a bustling social life. Just as she's not a photographer, she's also not a professional musician. Instead, she's spent the last two years in a pool of self-doubt, working an unfulfilling job at a failing theatre.

Ultimately, I think this book is being marketed wrong as a romance. While there is a HFN (maybe HEA), as Cameron and Amy go from pen pals to friends to lovers, the story is more about being brave in the face of self-doubt and unfulfilled dreams. Amy's lies to Cameron spur her to take chances, pushing herself at her job and picking her violin up again. Ultimately, I found this to be a solid women's fiction book, which drags in the front half but picks up steam (not romance steam, there is barely even a kiss) in the later parts of the book. I think going in knowing you aren't getting a traditional romance sets the expectations appropriately.

* Thank you to One More Chapter and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review! *

I really tried with this book but it was just not ment for me i think. It started out okay, but i didn't really liked the fmc. I hated that she lied about her who she was and whar her life looked like. It took a lot out of the story for me. I just could not really get into this book.

Brilliant story with such a heart wrenching story for Amy (and Cameron) as you go through. Absolutely loved it and found it almost impossible to put down.

The Typo revolves Amy and Cameron. Amy is a marketing manager for a dying theatre / comedy club in Edinburgh, Scotland. Amy had dreams of being a professional violinist until she cracked under the pressure at an important performance and received a poor review. Cameron is a wildlife photographer currently completing a contract in Antarctica. When Amy receives an email with an opportunity meant for Cameron and finds a way to pass it on, she finds his email to pass along the information and starts a string of back and forth emails where they get to know one another. Or at least Cameron thinks so because Amy is lying about who she is and what she does as a career. As they get closer, and Cameron wants to meet Amy must decide whether or not to come clean.

All things considered, I cannot confidently say that I enjoyed reading this. The book was written almost as if it was just one stream of consciousness which made it a bit tough to read. The romance in this book was also off for me. I loved the ideas of the emails but they did not seem romantic at all. I almost think in the context of this story, it would have been better to stick on the phone calls or video calls. Those were the only times I saw a semblance of chemistry.

There was so much potential but it just wasn’t executed well.

Thank you NetGalley, the author Emily Kerr and the publisher HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter for an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review. 🫶🏻

How this only has 3 stars on here and 2.83 on goodreads is crazy to me! I really enjoyed this book, it was veryyy light on the romance because they are only talking online for like 98% of the book so this felt more like a women's journey to finding herself again, than romance. That being said their emails back and forth were sooooo cute and he really was the kick in her butt to start making changes in her life! I really love the "twist" at the end but do wish they had met sooner in the book (or the book was longer) so we could have some more time with them face to face. I don't think the comparison to You've Got Mail is accurate and so maybe this is why people are not feeling it? There is no enemies to lovers or animosity between the two so it's just the emails that are the same as You've Got Mail. I also would have loved for some chapters to be from Cameron's POV but obviously because of his twist at the end you couldn't really do that, I just loved him and wanted so much more!

I had high expectations but unfortunately they weren’t realized.
It's very very slow, too many descriptions and some unnecessary.
I had a very hard time finishing it, it made me want to stop. I hadn't paid attention to the low reviews on Goodreads and I'm really sorry to give it 2 stars.
The idea was there, the tropes are really good but they were structured poorly.
I couldn't empathize with any of the characters, at times I was hating the main character.

Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book.

Oof.

Admittedly, I was nervous about this one when I saw how low the Goodreads rating was, and unfortunately, I have to say I didn't enjoy this one, either.

The way all of the characters communicated was a big problem for me. Whatever medium they were using, whether it was traditional dialogue or the emails sent between Amy and Cameron, none of it was believable. Dialogue was often written as LONG, uninterrupted paragraphs that essentially amounted to the characters monologuing at each other. And the way they spoke to each other wasn't realistic either (if I had a shot for every time the word "goodness" was used, I'd have been too drunk to finish this book).

And the emails. I completely agree with previous reviewers' statements about the emails and the romance. The emails were so stilted and formal that Amy and Cameron had no real chemistry at all. This was supposed to be a romance, but there wasn't any actual romance in it. Amy and Cameron only meet face-to-face in the last chapter and even then, they had no chemistry. When they told each other they loved each other, I was surprised because there was no foundation for it.

Another issue I had was that NONE of these characters were likable. I love a flawed character, but none of these characters had redeeming qualities. Amy and Cameron lied to each other throughout the entire story, all of Amy's friends were terrible, her boss was terrible--there were only a few side characters I could actually tolerate. To be honest, it felt like a tactic to have everyone in the book be so terrible to Amy that you have to root for her, but because she's such a static character who has no agency and just accepts the things that are happening to her, it completely backfired.

And where was the plot? Everything came so easily to Amy. After not even picking up a violin in years, she can magically audition for a professional orchestra immediately and be offered a spot (that she then has the audacity to turn down)? Her friends treated her terribly throughout the entire novel, but all is forgiven at the end just for the sake of putting a bow on it? And when Amy and Cameron confess that they've both been lying about their lives the entire time they've been speaking, neither one of them is bothered by it. Everything was far too convenient to suspend my disbelief for.

In all, do not waste your time with this book.

Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with an arc in exchange for an honest review.

Wasn't sure what to expect from this book, due to it's title, but in fairness, it was well written, but I did struggle with the emails going back & forth. That said, I did stick with it to the end, but wasn't really for me.

This was an easy to read book. I really liked the emails sent between the two main characters, it added a fun element to the story. It was a nice enough plot, simple and fun. I did find myself skimming bits as they weren't for me and the ending was a bit rushed. Still a good read.

DNF @ 22%.
I appreciate the opportunity to read this book but unfortunately it just wasn't sparking any interest with the back and forth emails between Amy and Cameron about whale watching and pretending to play the violin. She was basically lying to him and yeah. We get it. Her life stinks. Unfortunately this one was not for me