Review: A bit conflicted about this one but overall enjoyable
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 12, 2014
While reading Draw Me In by Megan Squires I had a lot of conflicting emotions.  There were a few things that I had a hard time getting past in the book and a lot of things that I really loved.  All in all I would say that I ended up really enjoying Draw Me In.  For me it was a good book with all the potential to be a wonderful book, I just felt it didn’t quite hit the mark.Leo.  He was everything you could ask for; gorgeous yet unassuming, wealthy yet unpretentious, sweet and considerate, understanding with a great sense of humor.  Although we are often reminded of just how attractive Leo is, it is his character and his actions that are most appealing.Julie, on the other hand, was a significant source of conflict for me.  She is smart, creative, quirky, and funny.  She is clumsy which can be endearing, accident prone which is cute, and awkward at the most inopportune times which is realistic, but there were just too many of these occurrences for me.  I liked Julie, she could be almost completely socially inept which was refreshing at first and a few of her mishaps were extremely funny and entertaining, but when something happened during every encounter it became pretty over exaggerated, redundant, and got pretty old, pretty fast.I really liked the premise and the storyline. I was drawn to Leo’s story and everything that he experienced as well as the burgeoning love between Leo and Julie.  I also really loved the humor in both the narration and the dialogue.  It was very playful and witty.  I often believed though that some parts were a little too detailed and too drawn out.  There were quite a few parts of the book that I thought dragged and as Ms. Squires made mention to in the story, there really can be too much of a good thing.I was all over the place with this book.  There were parts that I thought were eloquent, parts that were philosophical, parts that were amusing, parts that were sweet, parts that were sexy, parts that were touching, but then there were also parts that were wordy, parts that were slow, parts that were unnecessary, and parts that were tiresome.I would say that I did really like Draw Me In.  I wanted to really love it and at certain points I did, unfortunately there were certain times that I kind of disliked it as well.  Overall I did like it and I would recommend it especially for art lovers as the description of the art and the creative process was thought provoking and quite beautiful.