Review: Unbelievably amazing!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 14, 2014
Book Review by Nicole McCurdy for Bex ‘n’ BooksDisclosure: This ebook was provided by the author in exchange for an HONEST and not necessarily positive review.I have to start off by saying I haven’t an artistic bone in my body and what my body lacks in art my mind lacks even more in knowledge, apart from the basics.  I could maybe pick out a Picasso if pressed (looks like messed up jigsaw pieces, right?) and I know a little of Salvador Dali and his warped looking clock faces in paintings, so I wasn’t too impressed to learn this book was going to be delving into art and Michelangelo and all things beyond my scope of understanding in art. I’m not a deep person who can see hidden connotations in brush strokes or the obscure meaning in lighting techniques.  If you paint a forest scene. I see a lot of trees. That’s it. So I wasn’t particularly looking forward to this book.But I was horribly wrong.  Wrong, wrong, wrong.The way Megan Squires writes I feel like I could travel to Italy, sip an espresso and chin wag with the other beret-toting art boffins.  Well, about Michelangelo’s David anyway.  I got lost in Megan’s writing, like forgot I had two kids to feed and husband to converse with type of lost.  After I passed chapter two I was in deep.  It was fresh and imaginative.  It was flawless and descriptive and simply mesmerising but the great thing about the whole book was the simplicity of it.  There are no great twists or turns just a wonderful, straightforward tale of love and struggles to overcome obstacles to keep that love unharmed.I forgot that I didn’t know anything about art because art is just the backdrop for what is an unbelievably sweet love story between twenty-two year old art students Julie and the handsome charismatic Leo. Leo who is Prince Charming. Eric is Philip and the Beast after he transformed into a human, and Aladdin and even Flynn Rider and Prince Naveen; but not when he was a frog, because even though people always said you had to kiss a lot of frogs, this girl is not stooping to the level of pressing her lips to anything scaly or remotely amphibian.  So yeah, in essence he was every girl’s childhood fantasy.How could you not love Megan’s style of writing?  I love these long-winded rambles because it’s precisely the type of dialogue I generally have running in my head.  She makes the people relatable and loveable and even the secondary players shine.It does take quite a while for the romance to build. It’s a slow simmer but it’s so nice to read a book where the main focus isn’t lots of gratuitous kink.  There’s a storyline here worthy of Nicholas Sparks- love and the inevitable tragedy/drama to add a deeper layer to events.  It’s butterfly inducing without being saccharine sweet and enough chemistry and banter between the two main characters to be incredibly entertaining.I really enjoyed Draw Me In. It was a bit slow to start but once it got going it steamed full ahead into a rocking romance. Great writing from Megan Squires.  Loved Leo throughout the book and fell head over heels for him all over again with his speech at the end! Draw Me in…Totally drew me in.