Drawn Together

trigger warnings for: rape, self harm mentions, severe emotional abuse throughout

This book absolutely infuriated me.
The blurb doesn't really match the book. This story is all about a woman in an abusive relationship who tries to get out of it (and sometimes stay in it) with the help of her family and the woman she's fallen for. This is not a cutesy fandom book at all and that disappointed me a little.

I honestly think Kerry is possibly my least favourite character out of any book I've ever read. She was well and truly despicable. She had zero redeeming features and I have no idea why Dion was with her, let alone why she was married to her. Making Kerry the bad guy didn't really make me root for Dion and Zoey though, so if that was Glass' intentions then she failed.

Zoey seemed to have the realisation that she was in love with Dion about three times in this book. It made no sense to me at all. I thought I was having deja vu when she kept saying she loved her, but no, she had to keep reiterating it. Then when they finally told each other they loved each other and immediately started with the pet names; it didn't feel real or organic at all. They couldn't go five seconds without saying ‘I love you' or calling each other baby. They felt more like teenagers than adult women and it just did not feel believable to me.

I've given this two stars rather than one, because it was a f/f romance with a happy ending and the premise of a writer and artist developing from a professional relationship to a personal one was a nice concept, but this is an overly dramatic and tedious book.