Amy Cameron lives in Edinburgh and is the marketing and communications manager for the Variety theatre. Previously an aspiring violinist, a negative review a few years ago led to her packing her violin away and feeling like a failure. It doesn't help that her job is in trouble as the theatre isn't bringing in money like it used to and her friends are all in relationships and it feels like they are edging her out.

When she receives an email opportunity meant for photographer "Cameron A", she feels bad that it hasn't made it to its intended recipient and she searches to see if she can forward it on. She sends it to photographer Cameron Armstrong who is currently travelling around Antarctica on a job and the two exchange emails, sort of like pen pals.

The plot was lovely and I really liked Amy's growth and development. I felt like the emails could have given me more depth and feelings but it is an entertaining slow burn all the same!

A digital meet cute is something I didn't know I needed in a romance book. Not seeing each other and falling in love via email for months gave the best combination of You've Got Mail with Love is Blind. But as sweet and adorable as this was, the romance between Amy and Cameron was not the main love story of The Typo. This book was about Amy falling in love with herself.
I could almost painfully relate to Amy's perfectionism and it was so cathartic to read her journey of self love and acceptance. Amy found her stride, learning to listen to herself and trust her own judgement (and a few new and old friends along the way).
I felt so much joy reading about the céilidh, the success of Amy's business plan, every interaction with her neighbor and his cats, and I adored the Edinburgh theater setting.
An absolutely delightful read!

Eeek this was a DNF for me a little over halfway through. I tried really hard to not quit but I found myself feeling like I *had* to read it, not that I *wanted* to read it, and I gave up after about two weeks of picking it up and barely getting anywhere each time I read because I always found something better to do.

The premise of this book is super cute, meeting unexpectedly via a typo in an email address and carrying on conversation. Unfortunately, there just wasn't anything really likable about the characters and it was more of a boring telling of every day life. I read another reviewer's thought mentioning that a dual POV could have helped this story and I do think that's a great idea.

I also really hate miscommunication/lying for no reason and that was quite annoying throughout Amy's emails.

A good summer read
An amusing read with the 2 main characters exchanging emails while following Amy's life.
Will be looking out for more books by Emily Kerr
Thank you netgalley

Emily Kerr writes a great book. This is my first one of hers and I’ll be coming back for more. The characters were so well written and it read so quickly

This book had such potential....I love a good pen pal story. However this one fell flat for me. Needed more romance and more 'meet in person' time with both characters. I also didn't connect with the characters. Meh.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC.

Thank you to Harper Collins - One More Chapter and Emma Kerr for the opportunity to review The Typo in exchange for a fair and honest review.

I love reading about stories set in Scotland, especially when the backdrop is one of my favourite cities on earth, Edinburgh. Emily Kerr does a fantastic job of bringing to life the bustle and vibrancy of the Edinburgh cultural scene with a very accurate description. In my mind, I quickly walked along the streets with Amy from the Royal Mile down to the streets of Leith.

The Typo is a sweet, easy-read romance from the POV of Amy, who accidentally receives an email meant for a photographer. After some detective work, she tracks down the mystery man, and an email penpal friendship begins between Cameron and Amy. They both tell a few fibs about their lives in emails, embellishing their lives with one another. Next, they suspect correspondence would lead to romance.
It is a strangers-to-lover, long-distance romance story with vibes of You've Got Mail without the enemies-to-lovers dynamic. I love how the friendship between Cameron and Amy inspired them to take risks and get out of their comfort zones in relationship to the things they wanted in life and their dreams. Everyone should have a friend who encourages them to be their best self and supports their goals. Everything comes easily and gets wrapped up neatly. I would have liked a little more conflict resolution and push for Amy to conquer her flaws and insecurities, as it's never that simple.

I found Amy and Cameron likable, relatable characters as they shared their lives in emails. You don't get much face time with Cameron. This was the only downside for me. I could relate to Amy's position with her friends who have settled and lived different lives. Not sure you would find many people living alone in Leith unless they owned the property, as house prices in Edinburgh and rents are freaking ridiculous at the moment.

The chemistry between Amy and Cameron is hard to judge as most of the interactions were by email until the big meeting scene at Edinburgh Castle. A bit of page time for them to be in person might have given their chemistry a little more sizzle – they proclaim their love after a couple of minutes of meeting. I get it, though. People form attachments and attractions with online dating through a few photographs and words. Instalove is a worrying, needy red flag of low self-esteem. It needs to be accepted and wanted by others for all the wrong reasons. I would have loved to see this book as a dual POV to see more of Cameron's world, thoughts, and reactions to Amy's email.

A simple, fun read, but the ending was a bit rushed. I would have loved to see more of Amy and Cameron interacting face-to-face. Be prepared to book a trip to Edinburgh after reading this book. It will inspire your imagination to visit the Athens of the North.

I really enjoyed this crazy story. It's a great storyline and the idea of a typo leading to conversations which could make Amy smile when she was struggling with work.

Can they fall In love having only had conversations by email. Having seem many episodes of Catfish and being in a similar position myself I found this really interesting and the stress of waiting for a response so relatable.

I loved the story line and Amy is a great character, she's got great ideas for the Theatre and her ideas are not well taken by her boss.

It's so exciting wondering if they are going to meet and fall hopelessly in love.

This book just wasn’t for me… I found the characters quite boring and I just found myself not really caring what happened between them. I was excited about the premise as I haven’t read a book with this trope before, however it just didn’t live up to my hopes on this occasion!

Thank you NetGalley and publisher for this ARC publication for an honest review.

The premise for this book had one I typically love...pen pals who become more through their correspondence, leading to a true-life meeting and love connection.

Sad sigh. The execution left me wanting something more. I just didn't connect with our leads or the correspondence or Amy and Cameron's meeting in real life. What could have been an adorable "You've Got Mail" kind of story just didn't follow through.

2 stars

The Typo is an uplifting read with a lot of interesting information about life in the Antarctic and in theatre land. I found the email exchange a bit forced and whimsical at times but overall I enjoyed Amy's story of getting over a lack of self belief and building her confidence and her social circle. I found the ending a bit too contived and mushy but it's still a good read.

Cameron and Amy meet virtually due to a typo in an email address. Both are presenting their best lives to each other and not necessarily the truth, so what will happen when it is time to meet in real life? A fun read.

Emily Kerr’s books are always enjoyable but I loved that this building relationship happened primarily over email. Reading how Amy’s friends were treating her was evoking, as was the way her confidence slowly built with the help of her pen pal to allow her to achieve what she had dreamt of all along. It would have been lovely to have another chapter with more of Amy and Cameron in real life but I enjoyed it all the same. Thank you netgalley.

I felt really drained reading this book and I did have to DNF at 46% as I could feel myself getting into a reading slump.
The characters weren't interesting enough and the story didn't grab my attention from the start.

There’s so much to love about The Typo. Firstly there is the light, witty email exchange between Amy and Cameron, she telling him about things like watching the Edinburgh Zoo penguins on a webcam, while he tells her about Rockhopper penguins stealing pebbles from each other in Antarctica. I loved Amy and Cameron as people too. We saw very little of Cameron apart from through his emails, yet it was easy to get a good semse of him as a character. Amy was present on nearly every page, in her emails, in her mentally-draining, dead-end job at the failing Edinburgh Variety Theatre and in her flat, where sheis clearly afraid of picking up the violin languishing in a corner. I could easily imagine her embelishing her life to try to seem more interesting to Cameron, who in her eyes is living a life of adventure far more interesting than her humdrum one. I could feel her growing guilt too. I loved the way she learned to face her fears and reclaim the life she lost two years earlier. For both Amy and Cameron this is a story about not only finding love but also seizing their dreams. This story is emotional at times, funny at others and a fantastic read from start to finish.

Unfortunately I did not enjoy my time reading this novel. I was intrigued by the premise as I like these type of pen pal stories, but the emails exchanged lacked chemistry and weren’t very romantic. It would have been nice if they met earlier and we saw more of them as a couple. I just didn’t feel connected to the romance or characters, and the writing was dry.

One thing I did like though was Amy’s sense of feeling left out of her social group and being behind her peers. It’s something I think a lot of people can relate to, and her feelings of loneliness were palpable.

This is such a cute read! I love books where it’s email/letters correspondence and this one is just a fun and easy read.
There were times where I feel like there’s too much description and it’s a bit slow but overall, I’d say this is very enjoyable and really got me picturing the vibes of Edinburgh 🤭

Unfortunately I had such high hopes for this one but it just wasn't for me. I found the story to be a little too slow and didn't really gel with either of the characters..

I really wanted to love this book. Don't get me wrong, the ending was great. But the pace of the book was too slow for my liking and it honestly was somewhat boring getting there. Still, I could see this book being loved by a group of patrons at my library though.

Unfortunately this book was not for me and I had to give up at the halfway point. I feel like so many people will enjoy this and will enjoy the back and forth from the mmc and fmc but I couldn't get invested.