A review by emjay24
The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell

4.0

The Other Typist sounded like it might be dry. Set in the 1920s, our narrator Rose is a woman raised to be plain, boring, and quiet by nuns in an orphanage. She lives in a boarding house and has a job as a typist at a police station, and gives off a creepy vibe to those around her. One day, a woman named Odalie begins as the new typist at work, and immediately takes her in to a world of rich living, stories and lies, and speakeasies, and Rose becomes obsessed with Odalie. The ending of this book was confusing, and I’m not sure exactly what happened, although it seems like that was the author’s intent. I liked that this book was weird and creepy in a not usual way, more of a single-white-female movie way. Well-written.