Reviewer: Terry
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Summary:
She’s a Democrat, he’s a Republican. She spends her days fighting global warming at an environmental non-profit, he makes his living doing PR for Bell Motors and their fleet of SUVs. But as soon as they meet, Emily Crossley and Robert Drake realize they have encountered their intellectual match. You’re never challenged, he tells her. You’ve surrounded yourself in a cocoon of people who think exactly the same way you do. She hurls the same accusation back at him, and the fiery debates begin.
Despite both of their attempts to derail it, there is no denying that they are falling in love. But their relationship is threatened by political differences, Robert’s excessive work hours, and Emily’s fear of losing her identity as she falls deeper in love.
Can their love survive? The Drake Equation is a tale of modern love and all its complexities.
Review:
This is a story about how opposites attract, Emily and Robert Drake are extreme opposites when it comes to their careers. Hers is saving the environment and getting big bad SUV’s off the road. He works in advertisement for a company that creates the big bad SUV’s. It was fun to read the back and forth banter between the two and how they found ways to deal with their differences.
It was a decent read as far as the romance goes. But it felt weighed down by too many “facts” that made one want to go research to verify or dismiss.
The characters were well developed and portrayed much how you would expect from the fun character’s one finds in small town USA.
