The Typo

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