This is the first Sherry Thomas book I've ever read. It took me a little while to get hooked, but ultimately I liked this one. 
 The main reason being that the heroine was clever, though it's not obvious in the first quarter or so. In later sections of the book her clear-cut manner of speaking and perception were refreshing and in nature she wasn't particularly "girly". 
 The hero was a bit dodgy (as they often are) and suffers from the overused 'i'm-a jerk-because-I-had bad-parents-and-a-bad-childhood" trope, but I'll still take that over a goofy heroine any day.