Drawing the Prince

Reviewed by Truus for Diverse Reader

Was it sentimental and emotional? Yes! Was it a fairytale? kind of but it was also much more! I loved everything about it.

Meet Cal aka Calvin Walters rising artist from a small town, Peril, in Nebraska and Teo aka His Royal Highness Prince Friedrich Aleksej Josef Vissente Teofilo, Duke of Vidac, Earl of Kramitz.

Teo is in love with the art coming from Cal’s hand, after meeting Cal in person he is falling even more in love with the man himself.
Teo has organized an art contest in his small country and wants Cal to tribute three parts to it.
Cal is smitten by this beautiful, elegant, aristocratic man. After watching Teo’s Instagram, Cal understands he is just one in a long line. Still, Cal agrees and travels to Teo’s tiny kingdom in Europe.
Staying with Teo in his castle, Cal gets special treatment. No men from the row have entered these rooms before. They fall in love quite strongly and comfortably. Cal knows it’s too good to be true and a broken heart will be next.

What a well thought out, gracious, beautifully detailed and layered story. I was so smitten with it. It was written with a passion and that made this tale even more appealing. It had bittersweet moments, which crushed my heart, also funny times that made me laugh.
You could expect this could be a sappy story while reading the blurb, it was far from that!
I prefer to call it an excellently positive and vibrant story!
Even though I thought the whole story was, at first sight, lighthearted it’s quite more than that, it has an intelligent plot and all thoroughly developed. The way the love of art was woven into this story, the importance of authentic roots and family was impressive! The story around the passionate work with charity-funding and, above all, how the love, emotions and the romance was shining blindly, it was just everything!

We got a saying in my country I’m not sure it’s universal:
‘’I don’t have to swim in money, just paddling is enough’’
Money isn’t everything, but hey it’s handy. It opens doors for you and when spent well, by that it also opens them for others, that was important here!

An awfully well written story, extremely kind and uplifting, it radiated feelings like the sun always shines, even behind thick clouds!
It’s all about possibilities, opportunities, caring, expanding your focus and faith in the future.

I love how it takes work to find a solution that allows these two great men to follow their dreams but also be together. This story spans two continents and 3 locations to find the solutions needed. There are lots of ups and downs to get these men to their well deserved happily ever after. I really enjoyed following along on their journey.

The book is a cute and engaging artist meets royalty romance. Cal, who is the small town up-and-coming artist that perceives his fame is only due to his friendship with his famous friend, Merc, and Teo, who is the youngest Prince of a small European country. Between an art competition in Europe and a family member's health issue in the US, will Cal and Teo be able come up with a solution to be together? This was a fun read that delivers a HEA.

Drawing the Prince by Kim Fielding was given in exchange for an honest review. Cal an artist, is not at all thrilled by losing a bet to his friend Merc having to go on a blind date and Teo, flying across the world just to meet the artist who caught his attention.
My only problem I had was that Cal had a chip on his shoulder from the beginning and seemed to give up or run away when things don't go his way. Maybe if I had more depth for his attitude it would have made it better. This was a nice slow burn story where fairytales and real life seems to collide with impossible hurdles to overcome but creativity may just let them have a happily ever after they have always wanted.