Title: Drawn
Author: Elle Brownlee
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Page Count: 200
Reviewed by: Ariel
Heat Level: 3 flames out of 5
Rating: 4 stars out of 5
Blurb:
Sebastian (Sen) Holt is an artist currently in New Orleans. He’s always been a wanderer, believing in fate and following signs to guide his destiny. Although he itches to pull up stakes, getting a painting into a gallery keeps him rooted. One morning his good friend calls him in desperate need of help with her cleaning business. Her regular cleaner flaked, she can’t lose her client, and there’s no one else.
The job is at a large and recently restored house—and the owner, Morgan Ballard, comes home unexpectedly. They are immediately drawn together, as if they know each other, but they’ve never met. As they grow closer, Morgan behaves like two people. Sometimes he’s friendly and casual, and other times intimate and demanding. Sen juggles his painting through bursts of vision-like inspiration, the cleaning job, and an unexpected commission—all while trying to unlock the growing mystery of the intense connection he feels to Morgan. He’s not sure which scares him more—the strangeness surrounding their growing bond or that he’s found someone to make him reconsider his lifelong wanderlust.
This story mixes the past with the present in a unique way. If you’re not an artist, the beginning will require patience, but your patience will be wondrously rewarded.
Sen is an up-and-coming painter currently living in New Orleans. His best friend owns a cleaning service and asks for his help in cleaning a house. He takes the job, to help her out, and there he meets Morgan, the owner of the house. It’s instant attraction and connection on a cosmic level that they both don’t understand. After they meet, Sen gets visions that fuel his paintings. Sen gets his own showing in a gallery and Morgan completes his architectural project. During all this, they spend more time with each other, Sen gets more visions, and things get a bit crazy. The last two chapters wind everything up. The visions are explained, true love and soulmates are realized, and the last chapter is actually the epilogue. A wonderful and heartwarming HEA.
This story is an uncommon and refreshing tale in the paranormal genre. Encompassed in mysteries, stormy visions, deja vu, and kismet, you will be taken on fate’s quest to reunite lost souls.
Sen and Morgan instantly feel the connection. Two halves of a whole. When Sen and Morgan are apart, they feel lost and incomplete. When they’re together, they feel whole and happy and relaxed. It’s heartwarming to watch them rediscover each other over coffee and pastries.
The story takes a while to get going, but I’m glad I stuck to it. Also, the writing style is very sophisticated. This made it difficult to understand what was going on, at times. As I got more into the book, though, I was able to catch on better.
I’m not an artist and I love art as much as the next person, but I think this book has too much art references and explanations.
Lastly, I wish the main characters would have been more developed.
If you love paranormal books, lost souls, the mixing of past with the present, and painters with soulmates you will love this story. I do recommend this book. So, get yourself ready for a wild ride full of twists and turns in the humidity of New Orleans with a pain au chocolat in one hand and chicory coffee in the other.
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