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%

Cute little romance - the writing was a bit childish in some parts, but overall I enjoyed it and it was a quick read.

Thanks NetGalley for the copy!

The Typo by Emily Kerr, published by Harper Collins, One More Chapter is a romance novel.
Amy, a blogger meets Cameron an artist because of a typo in an email adress. And that leads both of them on a wild goose chase, leading to a well desreved hea. A beautiful story, well written and beautifully told. Sweet and charming.

Penguins, penguins, penguins and penguin poo

I really enjoyed this. I adored the relationship between Amy & Cameron I like the different with it being via mail and they not actually knowing what each other looked like.
Amy’s growth was amazing I’ve never felt so proud and happy for a character.
She really became who she’s always wanted to be it was lovely.
I actually didn’t see the little twist coming I was so shocked.
I loved how detailed the places were described I felt like I could picture the theatre and the boat.
This is a sweet happy romance with witty banter. 2 adorable kittens and lots of talk about penguins.
Definitely be recommending