I was absolutely not expecting to like this book. But I ended up loving it. 
 Basically this is because I expected a somewhat trashy and vapid romance novel (which I happen to like very much at times) but this story was actually really cool. The female character in this book is hearing-impaired, which is a twist I wasn't sure how the author would approach. But it was actually quite beautiful and endearing. At the end of the book, we are given a blurb about how Maya Banks' husband is actually deaf/ hearing-impaired and that a lot of the techniques the characters in the book utilized in order to speak to the protagonist were methods that she has also used with her husband. I think that, for this reason, I felt emotionally impacted by this book. The author herself put love into it (which sounds cheesy but whatever).