This was such a sweet story, and I was invested in the characters from the beginning. I loved the characters backstory- it was raw and authentic. No fluffy romance book here- this one had depth! I loved the people she collected along the way and I was head over heels for her “adopted” grandpa. The relationships were real, flaws and all. The interior design aspect was just icing on the cake! Thanks to the publisher for the gifted copy in exchange for my honest review.

This was a cute read. I loved the fixer-upper/design aspects of it. For romance fans that prefer closed door.

Sophie Sullivan takes on not one, but two tropes in her new romantic comedy, How to Love Your Neighbor. Enemies to Lovers and Falling for the Boy/Girl Next Door combine in this spirited romance to create a whole lot of sizzle and pop!

Grace Travis grew up with nothing except a neglectful mother who always put herself first, so when she inherits an adorable beach cottage from the grandparents she never met, she is surprised but overjoyed by her newfound fortune. She can't wait to put her design skills to work and make this house a home. There's only one problem ... her next door neighbor Noah Jansen.

Noah Jansen grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth. His family is famous for their business dealings, and he is finding success himself as a burgeoning real estate developer. The next property he wants to get his hands on? The abandoned-until-a-few-days-ago cottage next door to his own beachfront home. Noah always gets what he wants, but Grace, his new next door neighbor and owner of said beach cottage, is proving to be a tough nut to crack. Can he convince her to sell?

When Grace and Noah bump heads, sparks fly ... in more ways than one. It is a delight to watch these enemies turn into lovers, all while warring over shared fences, property lines, and paint colors. This novel is a great mix of romantic comedy and home renovation, making for a satisfyingly balanced read that shows what goes into designing and remodeling a dream home while also falling for your cute neighbor!

Main character Grace is a likeable young woman, who shows both softness and grit at the same time. She is determined and headstrong, but also vulnerable and compassionate. I enjoyed watching her blossom over the course of this novel, coming into her own as she creates a home that she loves. Noah is a harder pill to swallow, but he grew on me as his relationship with Grace developed. These two are adorable together, although the pace and intensity of this novel does slow down once their relationship is established, leading to some rather tedious moments. However, in all, this is an uplifting and enjoyable read.

How to Love Your Neighbor is my first Sophie Sullivan book, and I was surprised to later learn that this book is actually set in the same world as her debut novel Ten Rules for Faking It, which focuses on Noah's brother Chris' relationship with girlfriend Everly. However, you don't need to have read that novel - I haven't - to enjoy this one, although I am sure having knowledge of the Jansen family will only increase your enjoyment of this book.

Recommended to fans of heartwarming, closed door romantic comedies.

What a pleasure to cross paths with Chris Jansen and Everly whom I met last year in Ten Rules for Faking It. It was pretty neat that main male character is Noah Jansen, Chris' brother's turn to look for true love. How easy and convenient to have hottie Grace Travis moving next door to his California home. A cute love story around interior design and flipping homes,

All characters are so loveable, but the story is unfortunately not memorable.

Thank you Net Galley and the publisher for this e-ARC in exchange of my honest review.

This book is perfect for anyone interested in home improvement mixed with romance! I love the enemies to lovers and I love the chemistry between these 2 characters.

Loved this!!

I love to read about a couple fixing up a house (probably a weird thing in my part but there it is). Add in a grumpy hero and I was destined to love this book!

I totally love the grumpy/sunshine trope and this book definitely has that covered. The feud between the two main characters was fun to read and watch develop. I also loved Morty and his attitude.

I was provided a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest and fair review.

I was really interested in the description of this book - I'm a fan of the enemies to lovers trope so I was excited to give this one a read. This book ended up just not being for me though. I'm sure that many other people will (and do!) love this book I just can't say I was one of them. The hero was an ass right from the start and I never really felt like he ever turned into a likeable character for me. And the heroine was just not someone I could connect with either - it's hard for me to really pinpoint exactly why, but I never enjoyed her character. So while the concept was promising and there was a decent plot involved, this book just didn't end up working for me. I would still recommend giving it a try - there are a lot of people who did enjoy the book so there's something redeemable in there I'm sure!

Such fun summer read! I really enjoyed her first one Ten Rules for Faking it.....this is kinda book 2 in my opinion lol. Grace is a college student who's becoming a interior design and she has a new neighbor who is extremely good looking but persistent on asking her to sell her house to him.......does she sell or does she fall in love? Definitely a great book for the beach or by the pool!

Em How To Love Your Neighborhood conhecemos Grace e Noah. Enquanto Grace é uma moça que teve que lutar para ter as coisas na vida, Noah sempre teve tudo de mãos beijadas. Grace cresceu em um lar com uma mãe narcisista, onde todas as responsabilidades caiam por cima dela. Quando finalmente saiu de casa, ela se vira em mil trabalhos para conseguir pagar a faculdade e suas contas. Até que seus avós deixam para ela uma casinha na praia e Grace vê a oportunidade de construir um lar. Seu vizinho é Noah, um homem acostumado a ter o que quer e ele quer a casa de Grace para poder expandir a sua. Mesmo morando sozinho e com a família morando em outro estado, Noah quer uma cara de verão enorme e para isso ele vai ter que passar por Grace.

Não é preciso dizer o quanto isso me irritou. Um mocinho que não sabe o que é limites, mimado e manipulador. Enquanto durante a leitura eu só queria proteger Grace de todos, queria que Noah tivesse comprado um terreno em outro lugar e construído sua mansão deixando a mocinha em paz.

Infelizmente não foi uma leitura agradável para mim.

Grace inherits a little beach house from her grandparents that she never knew because in a nutshell her mom is horrible. Noah lives next door to said house and decides since it has been sitting empty for a while, he wants to buy it to increase his property value and have the chance at getting a magazine spread. Grace refuses to sale and Noah refuses to take no for an answer. This is an enemies to lovers opposites attract romance. Both have parental issues that we are continuously reminded of throughout the entire book, so they are both stubborn and want to prove themselves. I loved the romance in this book. I felt like the transition from them being enemies to friends to lovers was done really well and it made sense. It was obvious they had a connection and for me personally I wish they would have gotten together sooner. I think the characters were really good at communicating with each other albeit it would usually happen after one of them screwed up. I liked the home improvement/design aspect but because I am not a creative person it was kind of hard for me to picture all of the details in my head. It would have been nice to have some pictures. Yes, I know books don't usually come with pictures but still I would have liked to see all of the things that they created because the way it was described and the reactions the characters had made it seem amazing. This book also had me laughing all throughout it. Apparently, it's the companion novel to ten Rules for Faking it which I had no clue about but now I need to go read that one. The only negative I have to say about this book is how repetitive it was with how Grace wasn't her mom and Noah wasn't his dad and they didn't want to end up like them etc. That was literally beat into my head the entire time while I was reading this, and it only needed to be mentioned once maybe twice and I would have gotten it. Overall, I really enjoyed this and look forward to reading more by this author.

Primeiro preciso dizer que eu estava animadíssima para realizar essa leitura, pois ele tem todos os elementos que eu amo em um livro. Porém, só passei raiva.



Grace é uma moça que passou muita dificuldade na vida, com uma mãe narcisista, tudo que ela sempre quis foi um lar. Até que seus avós morrem e deixam uma pequena casa na praia para ela. Terminando sua faculdade de design de interiores como a primeira da classe, Grace finalmente vê a oportunidade de criar um lar e começar uma vida nova. Até que ela conhece seu novo vizinho, Noah é um homem acostumado a ter o que quer e ele quer a casa de Grace para expandir a sua casa. Será que esse convívio vai ser pacífico?



Que decepção viu? O livro é extremamente maçante, a narrativa é demorada, temos um monte de cenas sem necessidade e o ritmo dele é quase parando. Agora o grande responsável pela nota péssima desse livro foi Noah, que personagem péssimo.



Enquanto Grace é uma moça trabalhadora, que finalmente vai criar um lar e que se vira em mil para pagar as contas, Noah é um homem mimado.



Ele quer a casa de Grace apenas para expandir sua casa, onde ele mora SOZINHO! Ele não precisa do espaço para nada, mas mesmo assim ele tem dinheiro e acha que pode comprar tudo. Mesmo que ele tenha tentado mudar isso ao longo do livro eu não consegui me apegar a ele, acho que Grace merecia muito mais.



Enfim, é sempre ruim quando a gente não gosta de de um livro que tinha tudo para ser bom né?

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This is my first book by Sophie, and it was a bit to easy going for me. It’s defiantly a cute, easy to read, quick read, but I was looking for a little more drama to add some well drama to the storyline.

Grace is used to having to work for everything in life. She left her mother (if you can even call her that) at the age of eighteen and has been on her own since then. Grace works multiple jobs to put herself through college to earn a degree in designing and hopes to make a name for herself.

She lived with her roommate who’s an old, crotchety man who’s more like a fill-in grandfather figure than anything else, until Grace inherited her grandparent’s house where she can begin this next chapter in her life as she’s about to graduate and make her dreams a reality.

There’s only a couple of people in Grace’s life that she allows close and that’s her old roommate, Morty,and her best friend Rosie because Grace doesn’t want to be disappointed when people leave.

Grace has this mixture of confidence, fierceness, and passion, yet she can also be shy, awkward, and uncertain of herself in situations making her a lovable character.

Noah has moved out to California to make a name for himself outside of his father’s business empire in New York. He bought this house on the beach hoping to make it something like his grandparents’ to bring back some of those happy memories from his life; the only problem is that he wants to buy the house next door that now belongs to Grace, and Grace isn’t willing to sell it under any circumstances.

Noah has this charm to him that makes him irresistible, but he’s used to being able to pay money for anything that he wants. He’s the “impulsive” one in the family and has a difficult time expressing his emotions which leads to several strained moments with him and Grace.

The first part of the book is where Noah is trying desperately to buy Grace’s house to make his design dream come true, but what he’s not expecting is to find out that Grace is just as determines as he is and is not willing to sell it. Just when Noah thinks that he has a plan that might work, Grace proves him wrong and end up blowing his mind with her talents and determination.

Then, an opportunity comes where both of them are able to profit from it, and walls start to fall and they start to fall for each other. But, Grace has this plan of how she wanted her life to go and Noah wasn’t initially a part of it, and Noah has never done relationships and is going into uncharted territory.

I just don’t know how to explain how I feel about this book because I really enjoyed the majority of the book, but the last quarter of it just had me sighing. I just feel like for the amount of time that Grace was working through her feelings about her negligent mother that the situation towards the end was introduced and resolved a bit to easily. Then, with Noah trying help with the group of guys he was helping mentor, I felt like that storyline kind of fizzled out despite Noah’s initial wish of wanting to do something that showed who he wanted to be.

Then I also felt like in ways, Grace and Noah became to dependent with the other. Like now that they had a relationship, it felt like they relied on the other to much to help them become the person they wanted to be. I mean, I understand that with relationships, you want the other person to help you become a better person in cases, become a part of your support system, and love you through your good and bad, but I felt like they took it to another level of dependency.

I loved her first novel and was super excited to receive this one. This smacked hard. Love an enemies to lovers add in neighbours and tension. I’m in.

Grace Travis is attending Design School while working various odd jobs to pay for it. She never thought she would own her own home, but when her grandparents die, they leave her their little house on the beach. Grace has plans to fix it up and live there. Unfortunately, someone else has their sights set on Grace's house. Noah Jansen is a real estate developer, who purchased the house next to Grace's. He wants to buy her house, knock it down and put in a pool. She has no plans to sell her home. They go toe to toe for awhile, but as they get to know one another, they actually begin to help one another and realize that each of them have a reason to want their houses to become their homes.

How To Love Your Neighbor is an Enemies to Lovers Romance/Chick-Lit story. I really liked Grace, right from the first page and wanted everything to work out for her. She has had a tough life, but never gave up, never expected anything to be handed to her, was creative, caring and just an overall nice person. Noah comes off as a selfish, demanding rich brat who doesn't care who he steps on to get what he wants, at least at the beginning of the story. I really enjoyed getting to know him, his background, his family issues and the reason behind his drive. Once they started working together, I really wanted them to get together. I do love a home reno show, so that aspect of the book was a lot of fun. My one complaint is that the switch in their relationship was pretty quick. It was a fun story, with some angst, a bit of family conflict, some found family, friendship and some older characters that added a bit of fun and some spice.

LOVED THIS BOOK! I am now obsessed with Sophie Sullivan's rom coms and will auto-buy forever. I read Ten Rules for Faking It last year and loved the Everly/Chris cameos. I actually did a double take when I first saw their names because I didn't realize these books were in the same universe!

This book gave me everything I wanted from a DIY/home improvement rom com (looking at you Honey Don't List) and I will recommend forever.

Sophie Sullivan (Ten Rules for Faking It) presents a sunny Southern California romance in How to Love Your Neighbor. Things are looking up for Grace Travis: she's close to finishing design school, she's moving into the tiny California beach house her grandparents left her and her toxic mother seems to be (mostly) leaving her alone. But Grace discovers that Noah Jansen, the handsome surfer she collided with on the beach one morning, is her new neighbor. He is stuck-up, rich and determined to demolish her house so that he can buy the property and install a swimming pool.

Sparks fly as Grace and Noah engage in a series of battles and negotiations in their ongoing war over renovations. But when Grace's best friend starts falling for Noah's assistant and love is in the air, Grace can't help but think a bit differently about Noah.

Loosely connected to Ten Rules for Faking It but easily read as a standalone novel, How to Love Your Neighbor is a fun, frothy romance. Both Noah and Grace grow as they learn more about each other and face the dysfunction in their respective pasts. Fans of Sally Thorne or Sarah Hogle are sure to enjoy the enemies-to-lovers angle, and the vibrant Southern California setting makes this an easy, breezy read. As for the design themes, anyone who has ever binged a home improvement show or spent too long on Pinterest will appreciate how the homes, as well as the relationships, are renovated.

How to Love Your Neighbor had all the makings to be one of my next favorite books....enemies to lovers with some unique twists. Grace is one of those girls you can't help but cheer for. She comes from humble beginnings and has little but she's worked hard and is finally on the cusp of realizing her dreams. She meets Noah who was literally born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He's never known true struggle in the same sense that Grace has. However, he's continually trying to prove himself in other ways. Neither understands the other person or their motivations which lends to the storyline and their ability to jump to quick judgements about each other.

I felt like the book started strong but somewhere along the way it began to move slowly for me. It could be that there was too much detailed discussion about the remodel for my taste. I'm not sure. I just know that it felt like I had to muddle through the end of the book in comparison to the first half.

Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC. I voluntarily chose to read and review it and the opinions contained within are my own.

This was a cute book. It started out pretty strong. Interesting characters. Funny banter. But hate turned to like too quickly for me...especially since its suppose to be a "hate to love" trope. The middle kinda dragged as it was a little too sweet, a little too typical. It took me longer to read than I would have liked for that reason. While there was nothing about this book that was bad there also isn't anything about it that is memorable.

***Copy obtained from St. Martin's Press via Netgalley***

Perfect for fans of HGTV and interior design, this sweet romance will be sure to have you smiling, laughing, and itching to redesign your bedroom (and maybe the rest of your home too). ⁣
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I really loved Grace’s character - she’s stubborn, passionate, and incredibly kindhearted. Noah took some time to grow on me (the first few chapters I hated him) but I ended up really liking him, especially when he showed how much he cared for Grace. ⁣

Sophie Sullivan knows how to write a romance that delivers the perfect emotional punch, with just the right amount of sexual tension and sweet romantic touches. This story is a perfect feel good story with lovable and relatable characters, full of passion and charisma.