Outdrawn by Deanna Grey on January 30, 2025
Genres: Fiction / LGBTQ+ / Gay, Fiction / Romance / General
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781958974537It isn't always lonely at the top. Noah Blue's finally got her foot in the door. After clawing her way to the top of the charts with her webcomic, she's garnered enough attention to earn a full-time position at a comic company re-launching their cult classic comic: Queen Leisah. Queen Leisah is predicted to be an instant bestseller with movie deals already in the making. Things are falling into place. There's nowhere to go but up¿as soon as she gets one person out of her way. Sage Montgomery has always been the best artist in every building she's stepped foot in. Raw talent's gotten her webcomic to the top of the charts every month for the past eight years. She's been the best for as long as she can remember. Sure, her career has plateaued but that can be fixed with a big, mainstream comic. She was promised full creative control over Leisah. Instead, she got a shared credit with the one artist who's been breathing down her neck since college. The one artist who has a fighting chance of being better than her. Sage and Noah have to work as a team - or, at least appear to work as a team. They thought the hardest part of the relaunch would be drawing together. But that's easy in comparison to resisting their feelings for each other.
To say I wasn’t grinning like a loon while reading this book would be a bold faced lie! I had such a fun time with this book not just in the banter between the characters, but the romance and the growth of each woman individually.
Noah felt so relatable to me, as my confidence in anything is usually low and my parents never supported my dreams. The difference being is that I did let it get to me. Seeing Noah go from someone who didn’t have confidence to realizing she was worth something without her art, and that her art was worth being paid for. Loved all of that! With Sage, seeing her go from someone who is closed off in the hopes to not hurt gave me such reminders of Zoya from the King of Scars duology. Someone who cares but closes themselves off in fear of drowning.
Both women having the tough conversations with their families at the end was so perfect. They stood up for themselves even though it was difficult to place those boundaries. I also loved that not everything was wrapped up with a bow. There’s still some tension between Sage and her brother TJ, as well as between Noah and her sister. Once a family has established roles for decades, not everything can change over night, and I appreciate that it wasn’t shown as this Disney ending of everything’s now good.
I just loved everything about this book! I now need to read everything by Deanna Grey from her back log and will read all of her books going forward.
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