I was interested in seeing how it would turn out. However, I wasn't riveted. The whole time I was reading it I was thinking it was so much like The Fountainhead- a determined and visionary modern architect with the world against him (who even works in construction in the beginning), an aloof and unattainable female character who loves the architect but can't let herself have him, an older architect mentor who was down on his luck because no one would hire him anymore, a wealthy patron who sponsors a building and who the architect likes despite being in love with the patron's wife...Raynor's characters end up a little flat and it becomes harder to understand why they are doing what they do. if the Fountainhead is too much for you, this book is for you. Otherwise, stick with the original.