Review: Draw Me In is a 5 star MUST READ
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2014
I was given an arc for an honest review ;)I will start out by saying that this book gave me something I’ve been missing for awhile, a good laugh with a side of crying!Julie, oh Jules you crack me up!  She is one of the funniest female characters I have enjoyed in quite some time.  Julie is quirky, artsy, and completely unfashionable.“The thing is, Jules, is that you’re incredibly creative when it comes to the arts.  It’s when it comes to the basic necessities of life that you fail miserably.” ~Ian, best friend/gay  {yet manly}  roommateShe also knows how to enjoy life.  Julie is by no means inexperienced or innocent…no seriously…she will even tell you so herself!!“If anything I was probably a little too easy.  I’d crossed over home plate enough times that I might as well be the catcher, I hung out there so often.”Julie and Leo quite literally bump into one another while she is working with students in Italy.  She is captivated by him and all of his gorgeousness.“His eyes were the most intense aqua I’d seen and I swam in the liquid ocean of them.  No, I didn’t swim.  I drowned.”Thinking this was just a chance encounter Julie goes back to her normal everyday life of school and work.  It isn’t until much later that the two meet again by chance and Julie just keeps making a fool of herself…she turns into this mess of a girl who spills stuff all the time.  I loved how goofy she could be and that she could make fun of herself, that to me shows strength.“I was really stoopid.  And no, not stupid, but stoopid, because that’s how dumb I was – I couldn’t even spell it right.”Now….let me talk about Leo for a minute….W-O-W-Z-A *fanning self*  He is this uber rich guy but he really doesn’t act like it, well asidefrom needing help shopping for jeans because he’s never had to before LMAO.  Leo has this easiness about him, he seems to be comfortable in many different settings yet he has this sense of mystery to him.“He was the most tender, yet firm, man I’d ever come in contact with, and it did things to my insides that it probably shouldn’t.”And he says the sweetest things imaginable – it just made me want to cuddle up with him and kiss him all over!!  I couldn’t pick my favorite lines so here are a whole bunch :)“I know I don’t know you very well yet, Julie, but I want you to know that each time I find out something new about you, it’s like unwrapping a present.  Thank you for that gift you just gave me.”“Because I wanted to be that person to draw you in.”“I want you to know me.  I need you to draw me.”“You’re going to be my last ‘I love you,’ Julie.”Where Leo is super sweet Julie is  equally hilarious!  Ok, in some of these lines below she may have been a teeeeeeeensy bit drunk but that just made it all the more fun!“You got this Julie.  You’ve got the moves like Jagger.  Leo really needs to see this.  Ready, steady…groove!”“Break dance, not hearts.  Make friends, not foes.”“Pick flowers, not fights.  Drop beats, not bombs.”Leo and Julie begin to get to know one another while they are back in Italy.  Their time goes by fast but they have this connection that is absolutely amazing.  Leo is a very private person and has things from his past that have made him that way.“You draw my words and emotions out of me like no one ever has before.  I don’t do this.”  He waves his hands frantically in the space between us, back and forth in a nervous flutter.  “I don’t share my feelings.  I don’t lay it all out there.  But with you?  It all just spews out of me.”Leo manages to let Julie in, she learns things that she may not have wanted to know but that doesn’t stop her from falling for this man.  I don’t want to spoil anything so I will continue with this….I laughed throughout this entire book, that is until I cried!  Megan Squires really drew the emotions out of me on this one.  I think her attention to detail really helped paint a clear picture of what was going on, I really felt like I was standing there while Ian (remember him – the hot yet manly gay roommate) and Julie ate hot dogs on the street or while they were unlocking their front door.  This book will make you want to drink wine in Italy while falling in love!“There was no eraser when it came to the art of relationships.  You couldn’t take things back.  You couldn’t smudge out what had happened.”