Really cool premise and a cute story. Unfortunately I found the plot progression quite slow, although I did enjoy the emails back and forth. I wanted more of a romance (and was expecting one based off the cover and description) than I got. I would still give another book by this author a chance though.

Thank you NetGalley and HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was my first book from Emily Kerr, and it fell a bit flat for my taste.

I never DNF books, but it was a struggle to not do it while reading this one.

While I could connect with the MFC about anxiety, stress and constant fears in life, I thought the personality of our both MC could have been better developed. Actually, we get so little of Cameron that I don't consider him quite a MC.. Maybe we should've had a dual POV?

There was something missing in the plot that I can't quite put my finger on, but maybe the theatre setting isn't for me.

Also, where was the romance really? Only in the last chapters do we get a glimpse of it. Really was expecting more of the "you've got mail" vibes, and more of the romance flourishing, but nope.

This is my first book by this author. Overall I thought it was ehh

The book itself had tropes of:

🩷rom com
🖤You got mail vibes
🩷stranger to lovers
🖤meet cute Esq

the book look me a oit to get Involved in it and once I was I found the story overall ehh, a little enjoyable. The female main character, Amy has her feet on the solid ground she received an email definitely not intended for her and forwards it to the person she suspects it's for... this is how she meets Cameron.
Cameron, receives her email and decides to correspond with her and they really have the cutest meet cute, and corresponding. They really got to know each other through their communication.
They finally do meet face to face and both have their own personal struggles with insecurities. They were both hiding some secrets as well. How can they continue forward and move on from the secrets?
A cute heartwarming story but that's about it.

First of all - thank you to NetGalley, HC and OneMoreChapter for gifting me this book!

At first it was hard to get into the book, but I was still enjoying the emails Cameron and Amy kept exchanging.

After like 40% of this book I really got into the story and wanted to know more about Amy’s violin background and her past. The emails they exchanged were lovely and sometimes quite funny.

🌸I’m sending all my best anti-vomiting vibes your way.🌸

As the story progressed it was obvious from the way they emailed each other, that both of them started feeling things for each other.

The ending was unexpected and it fitted into the story so well!

I have enjoyed reading this book. It was witty, engaging and the ending was sweet 🩷

I got 40% into this book and couldn’t read anymore so DNF’d which is something I rarely ever do. It’s just so slow, like painfully slow & the plot isn’t great.

I got this book thanks to NetGalley. I lOVED THIS BOOK. the main characters had me sucked in! i read this book so fast, i could not put it down!!

I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. Thank you Netgalley and HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter.

This was a cute read....a great feel-good story! I enjoyed the letters back and forth between Cameron and Amy. They gave great insight into each character. I was cheering for Amy the whole time, hoping she could see her worth and build her confidence! The ending was exactly how I was hoping it would turn out.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing this ARC copy.

Amy's life is not what she imagined it would be. Disappointment in her career, anxiety, and friends who no longer have time for her have led her to withdrawal from life and doing things that she loves. Enter a misdirected/incorrectly addressed email. Finding the actual addressee introduces her to Cameron, and an instant email friendship begins.

I did enjoy the premise, the sweet group of characters, and even the secondary story involving Amy's workplace. However I found the conclusion (where both Amy and Cameron were hiding the truth about themselves) a little too implausible to make this a truly satisfying story.

The Typo is an interesting and well-written quarter-life renaissance novel, in which lapsed violinist Amy navigates evolving friendships, an unsatisfactory career, and dreams surrendered too soon. I loved watching her engage with all the different aspects of her life, the secondary characters were varied and engaging, and the ending was upbeat without being saccharine.

Unfortunately, all of that great stuff is packaged inside a romance that never really gets off the ground. Amy and Cameron's meet-cute - through a misdirected email - is an intriguing premise, but it devolves into an exchange of long, somewhat repetitive messages that are neither particularly interesting to read nor indicative of great romantic chemistry. While I could certainly understand Amy's interest in Cameron - she's lonely and he tells good stories - without seeing a more personal or flirtatious level to their interaction I just couldn't get invested in their relationship.

Thank you netgalley for the e-arc in exchange for my honest review.

Unfortunately, I had to dnf it at 28%. I couldn’t connect with the main characters and I didn’t see any chemistry between them. I feel so bad because the cover is so cute and from the synopsis it had a lot of potential.

It’s just too bad. It was underwhelming for me.

I enjoyed this easy read chick lit. Based in Edinburgh, a city I'm very familiar with, I enjoyed the references to local areas which made the book more relatable. Very "You've got mail" vibes! The story dragged a little and not quite enough romance to the emails between the main characters but I would recommend as a holiday read.

Thank you NetGalley for the chance to read this story.

While I did not hate it, I did not love it… I skipped over parts because it was not pulling me in like I had hoped. About 100 pages in I started skimming and then read the last 2 chapters to see what happened when they finally did meet in person. I don’t understand why the characters lied, they could have built the relationship with honesty from the start. I wanted to like the story, but a lot of it just didn’t seem interesting to me.

It is a quick and easy read though.

This rom/com is about an email sent to the wrong person and connection occurs. This book gives You’ve Got Mail vibes, although the email character is going through life changes and is able to express the changes with the email recipient. The ending was a bit of a surprise but I wished there was more to the surprise but overall it was a sweet read. I definitely loved that the book took place in Edinburgh, Scotland!

Slower than I anticipated
A bit oversold as a romance but I am a fan of connecting via the written word be it email or petals so that was appealing to me. Not a bad read just not my favorite although I did think the characters were helpful to each other for what they were both going through. Glad I had the chance to read it

I love the concept of this book, but unfortunately found the execution lacking.

I’m usually a big fan of epistolary romances - be it letter, text, or email, I love reading books about connections forged through the written word. This book, however, didn’t quite work for me. There were a number of issues that, in the end, contributed to this book falling somewhat flat.

- The book is being marketed as romance. I feel like that’s a stretch. The book focuses just as much, if not more, on Amy’s job and her issues as a musician. I really feel this fall more into the Women’s Lit category.
- Again, there isn’t much romance. For the majority of the book, Amy and Cameron’s correspondence isn’t remotely romantic. Even once they start to become interested in one another, their letters remain almost entirely platonic. Think of the slowest, mildest slow burn romance you’ve ever read, and this probably still has it beat.
- The letters lack depth. They convey what Amy and Cameron are doing, but not necessarily who they are as people.
- The pacing on this book is quite slow. It took me a while to get into it, and even then, I found myself wishing things would pick up. They do finally start to, at the end, but not enough to offset the rest of the experience.

I wouldn’t be averse to checking out more from this author, but I do wish that this had been accurately marketed so that I knew what I was getting into. If I hadn’t gone in expecting a romance, maybe this wouldn’t have seemed so slow.

Thanks to NetGalley for providing an advanced reader copy of this book.

I wasn’t a fan of this book for a few reasons. Apart from being pen pals I don’t see the main character’s romantic connection. This could be due to almost the whole book being from long distance contact and letters. I really felt like I didn’t connect or care about the characters because of it..

Not much romance in this one which I wouldn’t mind but it is marketed as such.

It’s mostly about Amy’s journey of self-discovery and figuring out her purpose in life than the romance.

Amy doesn’t meet Cameron until about 75% way through the book either. We didn’t get much closure on the story, and I was left with so many unanswered questions!

I think this would be good with a more satisfying ending.

TLDR: I found it quite boring. I didn’t like it

I thought I’d really enjoy this after reading the first few chapters. To make a long story short, I didn’t.

I really liked what would be considered the subplot if this is supposed to be a romance novel. I liked her interactions with people because they seemed genuinely real. I feel like if you eliminate all aspects of the romance from this, it would be better. The MCs email each other back and forth, and at first it’s kinda cute and endearing and then it’s dreadfully boring. What they talk about holds zero relevance after the 1/4 point for the most part.

I didn’t like Amy. She has forced herself into isolation because of a case of stage fright in rough summary. It is never that serious. She is openly like “I’m so lonely and don’t hang out with anyone and all my friends avoid me and I don’t want to meet any guys.” She gets ann email that has a typo in the address so, after an extensive deep dive, she forwards it to who she thinks it’s meant for and starts emailing with a guy because she’s that lonely. The first several emails she sends she’s thinking “I should have never responded, how stupid of me! He’s never going to respond to me! There goes my one joy in life!” They don’t meet or even see each other until the last 40 pages or so of the book. And in the epilogue, she doesn’t mention any of the new connections she’s made in the final 1/4 growth, so is there really even growth? Or did she just get a boyfriend? She’s just like “hey my new boyfriend of 3 months, would you like to run away from all my friends, family, coworkers and connections here to go on an arctic cruise?” So completely isolating herself again!! Idk that was frustrating to me. I also think the “plot twist “ (spoilers ahead) was super implausible. Basically she emails him and says hey, sorry, I’ve been lying to you and here’s the truth and I’ve been trying to make it right. He responds with the equivalent of “K.” And drops that he also has been dishonest and he has to tell her in person. He reveals he is not a famous photographer but an hr rep. Definitely could have said that over email but okay bestie go off. Amy is for some reason so hurt by this when like…. Okay no big deal really. He says that the actual intended recipient of the email she sent is actually super famous. So then how come on her google deep dive did she not find a single one of the actual guy’s pictures? Makes no sense to me. Some smaller things that bothered me were the huge time jumps and the way sometimes characters just all of a sudden went from doing one thing to another without the transition in writing.

In summary, I think this book would have been much more affective at communicating a theme, character growth, progression and passion if it would have cut out the romance. Everything that happens outside of the romance would not be harmed or even need to be changed if the romance was just black markered out.

Content summary: 🖍️ this book is squeaky clean! No swearing, no sex, no anything really🖍️

Thanks to NetGalley, HarperCollins UK, and One More Chapter for this ARC

The Type by Emily Kerr was a cute book, but I struggle to classify it as a true romance novel. I would likely go up a star to 4 if it was considered just contemporary fiction, but since it's listed as a romance I will rate and review as such. The book's focus definitely felt more like it was centered on Amy's journey of self discovery rather than the relationship building between her and Cameron. We only got a handful of pages of them being together, and nay a first kiss or real date. The relationship formed, sure, but that was not the main plot point of this book.

I enjoyed the email correspondence and the meet cute. I even enjoyed Amy's bone rattling guilt for deceiving Cameron throughout the novel, as this was the only interesting thing happening for a while. This was the only part of the book I found interesting enough to deem 3 stars.

Otherwise, Amy's friends and colleagues were borderline unreadable. Not only were they just awful, but there was little to no motivation behind their behavior. If we had know why they were awful maybe things would have been interesting. Even the ones painted in a positive light were drab.

The end was a let down, very little meat after dragging for a couple chapters about what Cameron meant by his last email. I needed some sparks or fireworks or even pop rocks to redeem the ending, but it was, again, drab.

This book was fine. That's the best I can do.

This is such a cute and sweet book! It is a fun and easy read. I liked the characters and how they helped each other without even knowing. I also enjoyed the slow pace and the ending.