This one started off so strong, but the further I got into it, the more I just lost interest.

At first I liked both characters. Their meet cute was good. They definitely had chemistry and I was rooting for them. But the more I got to know Dagny the more I just couldn't get behind her. She drove me bananas. She was just such a pitiful-woe-is-me character. She brings up the fact that she's an "orphan" quite a bit. While technically this is true, her parents are dead, she was not orphaned as a child. She was an adult when her parents died. As someone who has actually lost a parent as an adult, I'll be the first to say this changes you as a person. But it seemed here it was just used to make everyone feel sorry for Dagny. I also thought it took her way to long to stand on her own to feet. This isn't a new adult romance, Dagny is in her early thirties, I believe. Not only was she fine letting her boyfriend take care of literally everything for her when they were together (which, sure he's wealthy and their lifestyle pretty much did dictate that he take care of everything then) but when they break up, she's still allowing him to take care of her. As soon as they break up, she's already thinking he has someone else, but she still uses his money, stays in their apartment with him and just generally allows him to provide for her. I wish she would have been a stronger character. I get that she wanted to live in New York, but I would have rather seen her move somewhere cheaper and learn how to depend on herself.

The New York and London thing also drove me bananas. I get it. They are great cities. But it was like neither of these women would consider life anywhere else. it was just odd to have both cities mentioned so often, and in the way that they were (as in they were just overly praised. Yes, the fact that they lived in different locations is part of the story, but I thought the "love letters" to both cities just read weird)

I did like Allison. My only issue with her was her storyline. She's a reporter and she's working on a big story (because of course she is). I thought the secrecy was a little over the top, but I could deal with that. What bothered me was that Allison's career plays such a big part of the book, and we're told that she is interviewing people and working on this career-making, top secret, dangerous story, only to never find out what her assignment/story was about.

While they started off, as I mentioned with good chemistry, I found myself not caring so much about that the further we got into their stories because I just didn't see that Allison would fall so hard for Dagny. I just didn't think Dagny brought much to the relationship, other than really good sex. I didn't see them as a couple with any real staying power.

The book felt much longer than it was. It seemed to drag on. I don't know if it was because the author focused on so much in the way of Allison's career, Dagny's break-up, or what, but I ended up bored before I was halfway through the book. This was a hard one for me to finish. I felt like a lot of the content was put in just to make the book longer and wasn't at all necessary to the story.