FMR Book Grind: BLOG TOUR, REVIEW, & GIVEAWAY ~ Draw Me In by Megan Squires

January 11, 2014

BLOG TOUR, REVIEW, & GIVEAWAY ~ Draw Me In by Megan Squires

Draw Me In by Megan Squires

Publication date: January 7th 2014

Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

He’s a young, up and coming businessman with the keys to his family’s Italian wine enterprise.

I’m a fine arts student, navigating life in the Big Apple, my pencil and sketchpad in hand.

We meet. We fall in love.

But it’s not that story.

Sometimes, by a rare gift of fate, two lives cross paths. And hey, if that happens to occur when staring at Michelangelo’s naked masterpiece, even better. We can tell our future children how a seventeen-foot tall marble guy named David brought us together.

But there’s always more to a relationship than its beginning and ever after. In life, there’s a whole lot of backstory. There are ex-fiancés and hot roommates and family members whose advice continues, even beyond the grave.

When you say you love someone, it’s never just that one person you’re saying it to. And it’s never just that one moment that sets everything in motion.

There is always more that draws you in.

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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.

“Have you ever met someone that you just know will be your last ‘I love you’?”

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.

“In essence he was every girl’s childhood fantasy. But don’t get me wrong, he was equally the main character of every woman’s smut novel fodder.”

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 swear my ovaries just arm wrestled over who got to be the one to offer up her monthly services to try to create adorable little future-Italian-wine-heir babies with him. Seriously, I think he just made me ovulate on demand.”

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.

~ Review by Michelle T
4 FMR HEARTS

Megan Squires lives with her husband and two children just outside of Sacramento, California. A graduate from the University of California, Davis, Megan is now a full-time mother, wife, and dreamer—though her characters don’t often give her much opportunity to sleep.

Visit www.theoutlierchronicles.com to learn more about her latest young adult series.