Review: A heaping dish of stress
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 28, 2014
Well, I am glad I am done reading Drawn!  I am rating this 4 stars, which means that I "liked it" though I am rating it more on the writing than anything. This book has 4 story lines which are related in some mysterious way.  1.A woman who unconsciously keeps painting a little boy in the background of her paintings without knowing why. 2. A man who is afraid to leave his house due to agoraphobia and will not leave until something forces him out... 3. An old man who keeps dreaming that his missing adult-age son is in danger and 4. A small boy who is being held captive by a murderous pedophile. As the book progresses, the tension builds to uncomfortable levels. The main characters are all being driven by invisible forces to an unknown place for an unknown reason.  By the end of it all, you discover the hows and whys and it is tied up pretty cleanly.  For me the book walked a fine line between being impossible to put down and being nearly impossible not to put down.  Parts of the book were cheesy and other parts creepy to point of being sickening. Still the author did a good job of making me care about the characters enough to stick it out to the very end. 4/5