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Barging in by Josephine Myles

suze_1624's review

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4.0

The story of Dan (lad about town, out of depth on a boat, well out) and Robin (not really even admitting to be gay) and their journey to change for each other. Nice comic touches. Couldn't really bond with some of the other characters (Smiler and Mel) but did like Robins mum. The meeting of D and R I thought was quite funny.
I like Josephine Myles books, so was predisposed to like this one, and I did.

Reread 14.5.17 : enjoyed once again. It is 5 years since I read this and whilst some bits I could remember, others were more vague. I couldn't remember really once Dan left on his Gran Canaria assignment. Robin was a bit too hot and cold, Dan had the patience of something, though he had his moments too.

maya56's review

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5.0

4.5 Stars

I absolutely love Josephine Myles' writing! Don't know what it is about it but it really seems to speak to me. So much so that, if I were younger, I'd chuck it all to be a boater! I wonder if we have anything like that here in Canada?

And Robin & Dan? ❤

msmiz95's review

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3.0

3.5

lillian_francis's review

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4.0

Seesawing emotions reading this one. At times I wanted to slap both guys and at other times they were making me cry.
I think there were too many sex scenes for me but the depiction of life on the waterways and a handful of excellent secondary characters helped me overlook this.

aug3zimm's review

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2.0

The writing is lovely so plus one for that. But I couldn't connect to (or like) either MC and didn't like any of the other characters except for the cat and even he was just something to move the romance plot one step further. Honestly, I'm not a big one for reading about drug use so those bits were meh for me and then they sandwiched a rather-uncomfortable-for-me-and-not-in-a-sexy-way sex scene... Well, a good writing style can't save everything. I checked out. Glad I did, too, now that I read other reviews commenting on the impending cheating/thoughts of cheating. No thanks!

calila's review

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2.0

I sadly didn't really love this. It was fine. But I just did not like how Robin treated or talked about Dan. And there was never any resolution. His behavior is pointed out but I didn't get any indication of long term changes. Dan completely changes his life for Robin and I never noticed any reciprocation by Robin. It irks me. I don't know. It never clicked.
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