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A review by profpetitfours
The Typo by Emily Kerr
3.0
When an email lands in Amy Cameron's inbox inviting her to submit photographs to an upcoming competition, she knows something wrong. She's not a photographer (she is a.cameron, the potential photographer is cameron.a). Cameron A strikes up a correspondence with Amy, in which she learns he's a photographer on an Antarctic expedition. Wanting to match his accomplishments, Amy paints a picture of herself as a professional musician with a bustling social life. Just as she's not a photographer, she's also not a professional musician. Instead, she's spent the last two years in a pool of self-doubt, working an unfulfilling job at a failing theatre.
Ultimately, I think this book is being marketed wrong as a romance. While there is a HFN (maybe HEA), as Cameron and Amy go from pen pals to friends to lovers, the story is more about being brave in the face of self-doubt and unfulfilled dreams. Amy's lies to Cameron spur her to take chances, pushing herself at her job and picking her violin up again. Ultimately, I found this to be a solid women's fiction book, which drags in the front half but picks up steam (not romance steam, there is barely even a kiss) in the later parts of the book. I think going in knowing you aren't getting a traditional romance sets the expectations appropriately.
* Thank you to One More Chapter and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review! *
Ultimately, I think this book is being marketed wrong as a romance. While there is a HFN (maybe HEA), as Cameron and Amy go from pen pals to friends to lovers, the story is more about being brave in the face of self-doubt and unfulfilled dreams. Amy's lies to Cameron spur her to take chances, pushing herself at her job and picking her violin up again. Ultimately, I found this to be a solid women's fiction book, which drags in the front half but picks up steam (not romance steam, there is barely even a kiss) in the later parts of the book. I think going in knowing you aren't getting a traditional romance sets the expectations appropriately.
* Thank you to One More Chapter and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review! *