I didn't like this book at all. I gave it two stars only because I didn't dislike it so much that it turned into 'hate-reading'. To be honest, this book was just too blah for that.

Things I liked:
I honestly can't think of an aspect of this story I thought was well-executed. I guess some of the banter between Oliver and Hadley was kind of cute, but honestly it felt a little forced to me.

Things I didn't like:
1. Hadley - she was an insipid, insufferable little brat. She was also incredibly impulsive, but not in a fun, quirky way. She was impulsive in a way which resulted into her being incredibly disrespectful to her father and his wife...just to go chasing a guy she met on an airplane the night before. Also, she's dumb. She has a cell phone but instead of using the GPS to find her way around (which existed in 2012...just saying) she flails around London like an idiot.
2. The POV/tense - this story is told in third-person, which I don't understand at all. I actually don't mind third-person, but literally the only POV we experienced was Hadley's, including inner thoughts and dialogue. So why was this not written in first-person? It kept throwing me as I was reading the book.
3. Insta-love - I'm sorry, but no. This is one of the insta-est cases of insta-love I've read. And really, I'm not sure what else I expected. The title of the book pretty much guarantees insta-love. And boy does it deliver. The two main characters meet on a six hour plane ride, during which time one or the other of them is sleeping for a good chunk of time, and at the end of it she is so besotted with him that she waits for him in the terminal, to the point that she is late for her father's wedding. This ties back into point number one about how immature a character Hadley is.
4. Character depth -The characters are so surface. I don't feel like I know much about Hadley aside from the fact that she is a cute, privileged teenager who is holding a petty grudge against her dad because her parents split up and that she likes classic lit. I know even less about Oliver. And their 'romance'? I didn't buy it.
5. Tropes - so many tropes. Insta-love, misunderstandings that could be cleared up if characters would just talk to each other instead of assuming shit...among others.
6. The ending - I have noticed this in each Jennifer E. Smith book I've read...she doesn't seem to know how to end her books. They are so awkward and abrupt. Plot points are dropped and the things that are actually interesting are never fully developed. This is the third (fourth?) book of hers that I've read and I've thought the same about each of them. When I got to the last page I wasn't prepared for that to be the end. I read this on my e-reader and so I didn't know I was that close to the end. That made it seem even more abrupt.
7. Cheesy - This book was definitely cheesy. Like...Full House, no-problem-is-so-big-that-it-takes-more-than-22-minutes-to-solve kind of cheesy. She spends the whole book sulking and pouting about her dad getting remarried and then it's pretty much solved and everyone is friends in the course of a few pages. And then the book ends.

I'm beginning to feel about Jennifer E. Smith the way I feel about Kasie West. I really enjoyed the first book I read by her. Since then, I've enjoyed the follow ups less and less. I have another one of her books on my shelf, and one on loan from the library. I really hope to find one I like, because I do think she has the ability to write good stories with compelling characters and relationships.