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Swept Away

Beth O'Leary

3.73 AVERAGE

jbcameron08's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

An old barge house boat (aka not sea worthy) unbeknowingly sets adrift to the open ocean with its two grumpy (her) sunshine (him) one night stand passengers still aboard. She was annoying, overly rough around the edges, and standoffish, but he was charming, genuine, and redeeming. Together they make some epically stupid choices while waiting for a rescue. Would have loved to dive into this duo more once the plot driven conflict resolved, but instead found them dealing with a character driven conflict immediately after - and that felt like too much for one book IMO.

Good-ish read, but won’t go back for seconds. Also ZERO 🌶️ on page and pretty strict character imposed modesty; so borrring.

sunshinesam27's review against another edition

3.0

3.5

deann701's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

emjackson's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

eedengate's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Loved this fun lil rom com.

claireadtea's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

amysalwaysreading's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Swept Away tells the story of a one-night stand that doesn't end because the houseboat float away in the middle of the night. The first half of this story was too slow & repetitive which made it hard to me to get into the book. However the plot does pick up midway & from there I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Overall despite the pacing issues I did enjoy the story. This was a unique take on the forced proximity trope, and I enjoyed the main characters quite a bit. The audio narration was excellent.