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

Will you believe I discovered the penguin cam of the Edinburg Zoo two months ago? I have been watching the lovely creatures every day since then!

Apart from that coincidence, I really appreciate this book with the timely topic of people feeling like they are not good enough, having insecurities, feeling lonely despite not being a senior citizen. All of this is what our current deafening and demanding world is about.
What is it that we – like Ally – feel the need to posh up our lives? Appearing as if we've got it all together, as if there is nothing but green grass to share? Being brave is not about doing something heroic, being brave is about finding the courage to share who we really are, flaws and insecurities included. Opening up is so much more difficult than to appear wholesome.

And as we're on the subject of being brave, let me risk being a kill-joy by mentioning I was disappointed in The Typo being quite flat when it comes to diversity. In a city like Edinburgh, surely there are more flavors of the human kind? When near the end of the book a woman with a guide dog was mentioned I was happily surprised.
So yeah, it would have been nice to have characters included who are worth mentioning when it comes to skin color, sexual orientation, religion, history, cultural background, or chronically ill or disabled people, you name it. Unfortunately, I keep adding that to a lot of reviews on books I've read recently...

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of the book.

Emily Kerr crafts an engaging story about a woman learning to be brave again after losing confidence to chase her dreams, coupled with a very sweet epistolatory romance.

Amy Cameron once singlemindedly chased her dreams of being a professional violist until a bad performance resulted in a scathing review. Two years later, her violin is gathering dust, her job is on the line and none of her friends will respond to her messages, leading to a very lonely existence. An email typo leads her to becoming pen friends with Cameron Armstrong, a photographer on expedition ships to Antartica. Feeling ashamed of her lonely life, Amy embellishes the truth about her life - having friends, busking and performing at the Variety, a theatre she actually works as marking manager.

This book was just a delightful, funny and cosy read and I breezed right through it. I loved the emails between Amy and Cameron. While I was thinking 'noooooo Amy, don't lie!, just tell him about the truth', I liked that Emily Kerr didn't make her embellishments too over-the-top, and that they became a catalyst for Amy to rebuild herself, i.e. a bit of a 'fake it til you make it'. The resolution was also very well executed. I do wish, however, that Amy confronted all of her friends more strongly about their exclusion of her. At the very least I had a proper chat with Cass, since they were closer.

Coupled with the descriptions of Edinburgh (oh how I long to go back!), I really enjoyed this and ended up buying books from Emily's back catalogue (I read 'The Fixer Upper" last year and loved it). If you like your romances combined with self-improvement journeys of your heroines, this is definately one to give a go.

Thanks to One More Chapter/Harper Collins UK and NetGalley for the ARC.

The Typo by Emily Kerr is a charming chance encounter romcom with You’ve Got Mail vibes.

Two strangers miles apart connect when Amy receives an email meant for Cameron . Their lives are completely different but their connection grows as they begin to correspond through email. Is Cameron who he says he is and is Amy being her true authentic self? Funny and romantic,The Typo will have you rooting for Amy and Cameron’s HEA.

Thank you to Netgalley, the author and publisher for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

I really really wanted to enjoy this book.

I'm not even sure why I didn't, I normally love a book where epistolary romances bloom but I just found myself bored by the emails back and forth and it ended up making me bored with the whole book.

I'm willing to try this author again as I feel like this book had so much potential and maybe it was a case of "it's not you, it's me".

Unfortunately, this was a DNF at 35%