Absolutely loved this book.

I requested this book without realizing that it was a sequel to Ten Rules for Faking It--which to be honest, I couldn't get into. When the book arrived, I almost didn't read it but I'm SO GLAD I did. The characters are engaging, and I love their interactions. Grace sucked me in from page 1.

I might even go back and give the first book another shot, because I loved this one so much. Definitely a great entry point to the series.

**Review based on ARC**

What a fun book to read…. Grace and Noah each have their own reasons for wanting to be left alone… there is so much chemistry there and there is such a fine line between live and hate!

I Absolutely enjoyed this book and I look forward to reading more by this author!

This is definitely a fluffy, cute romance. It reminds me a bit of an early 2000s rom-com with it's cast of sweet and sassy characters. Gracie and Noah start out as enemies-to-lovers who definitely flirt every chance they get (don't we all flirt with our grumpy next-door neighbor?). They soon morph into this tense will-they-won't-they employee/employer friendship and finally they take the plunge into a romantic relationship.

The biggest issue that I had was the drama in this book (mainly the hero and heroine's relationship with their terrible parents) didn't really get resolved. Noah's relationship and tension with his dad never got mentioned again after the potential lawsuit was brought up. What did get resolved between Gracie and her mom was very rushed and tacked on at the end. There wasn't much time for growth from those experiences for our main characters. The scenes with Gracie's mother just felt silly and overdone at times. It added unnecessary drama when there was already plenty of other things to work through. 'At times it was a bit predictable, but it's still a fun weekend read if you are looking for a romantic distraction from reality!

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read an e-ARC. Thoughts and opinions are my own.

3.5 stars

This was a cute, fun read and I enjoyed it! I am a big fan of enemies to lovers and really enjoyed the home improvement side of this story. I was also interested in Grace's family history and struggles and enjoyed that aspect of the story. I really appreciated the low angst and light hearted nature of the book. I found that I had a little bit of a hard time feeling the chemistry between the main characters, but it was still a fun and sweet. book to read!

Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is such a sweet romance. I really enjoyed reading it and getting to know the characters as the story progressed. It was well written and rolled along really nicely. I enjoyed the storyline and although it was a little predictable and I felt the ending fizzled out a little, that didn't detract from my enjoyment of the book as a whole.

Grace is an aspiring interior designer who is just moving into the house she has inherited from her grandparents. Noah is just moving into the house next door and has plans to get his hands on Grace's property. Things don't work out quite how either of them intended. I loved Grace and the way her character developed at the same time her relationship with her new neighbour did. She really grew as did Noah. I liked her a lot and her friends too. Noah was lovely, he needed a shake occasionally but to be honest they both did really. It all made for an interesting read though.

This book is a really good read and one I would recommend. I loved the house design side of the story too. Although they managed to do a hell of a lot in a very short period of time; I don't know anyone who can paint a room, add the furniture and decorations all in the space of a few hours. It may have been a little unrealistic at times but a fun read nonetheless.

Interior design student, Grace, decides she finally wants to move into the house her grandparents left her. She is determined to make the space her own and find a connection to the family she never met. However, her handsome millionaire neighbor, Noah, wants to buy her house so he can put in a pool. The two are at odds for a few weeks, until Noah finally relents. He tells her that he wants her to help him renovate his home and then he will stop asking to buy her house. While working together, the two find out that they have a lot more in common than they thought.

This was an adorable sunshine meets grump/ enemies to lovers romance. I expected them to stay enemies for longer, but I actually enjoyed how quickly they became friends. Sometimes I find enemies to lovers books exhausting with all that hate. This book was such a breath of fresh air! I loved the design aspects and the imagery was incredible. It had me wishing I could live in a house by the beach! I really liked both Grace and Noah’s characters. They were very unproblematic and great communicators, which is rare for most couples in contemporary romances. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and recommend it to anyone who loves a quick, sweet love story!

Thank you NetGalley for an advanced copy of HOW TO LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR by Sophie Sullivan. Honestly, this book was not for me at all. I only got through it by super-skimming the whole second half. Basically, I didn't feel any chemistry between the two romantic leads at all so in a romance, that killed the whole book for me. I didn't necessarily hate the writing in general—I actually liked the female lead all by herself, and I thought her background and family story was interesting, but that was a pretty small portion of the book. I found the male lead annoying and wasn't very convinced of his ability to change or be someone who was good for the female lead. I know the whole billionaire romance craze means there are plenty of people out there who will feel differently, but this romance just didn't do it for me.

This one was a fun romance but it dragged a bit in the middle. I’d still highly recommend it though.

I loved the concept of this book. The competition between Noah and Grace for home renovations was a cute and quirky thing to read about, and seeing the two fall for each over paint chips is adorable. The two bonded over their shared trauma and expectations from life, though those expectations change during the course of the book.

However, I felt like we missed a lot with Noah and his dad as the author leaves out what happens between those two when he goes to New York and whenever Noah talks to his father. I also felt like Grace was too in her head a lot of the time and wouldn't give Noah a chance to help at all, always jumping to conclusions without giving Noah a second to explain. Though, she does grow at the end of the book.

It was a fun summer read overall!

How to Love Your Neighbor by Sophie Sullivan is a romantic comedy that gave me some LOL moments and I enjoyed it from cover to cover. This pleasant, engaging story is just the kind of book to escape your troubles and make you smile. There is plenty of sexual tension, but they keep the bedroom door closed.

Grace Travis is just about to graduate from design school and is working odd jobs until she can graduate and finally get her dream job designing spaces. She has just inherited a small beachfront home from a grandfather she never knew and can’t wait to fix it up and finally have a home of her own.

Noah Jansen is usually busy making deals and making money. He’s never met a deal he can’t win. He finally found a house on the beach to call his own, all he needs is to make a deal with the neighbor so he can expand his property to have room for the pool of his dreams. The problem is the neighbor, Grace, will not sell her home no matter what. She finally has a connection with family and refuses to let it go. Noah is not used to being told no, and can’t figure out why he can’t make her move, even when the deal is way above market value.

How to Love Your Neighbor is just a cute romantic comedy. If you’re a fan of HGTV and DIY shows, you’ll love this book. Both Grace and Noah are working to improve their homes and they eventually end up working together on both homes. There is a cute nod to the old show Trading Spaces as they and their friends both fix up a room in each home.

I recommend this book to anyone who loves a good romantic comedy. I received a complimentary copy of this book. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

This was a really cute story. It's my first book by the author, and while I enjoyed it, I'm not sure I'll reach for another one due to the fade to black scenes. I need a little payoff after all that tension. Grace and Noah had lots of chemistry and I love the grumpy/sunshine story. This one worked really well. It was well written with solid story telling.

Sophie Sullivan does it again. How to Love Your Neighbor is a delightful, easy-going read that will appeal to the HGTV fan in all of us. And, of course, it is filled with splashes of romance and comedy along the way.

I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion.

I absolutely loved this book and would definitely recommend this book to anyone. Job very well done by the author.

I wanted to love this book so much but I struggled to connect with the characters. The characters were a little too juvenile for me and the story felt a little all over the place. It was a good way to spend an afternoon, but unfortunately not a book I’ll reach for in the future.

I absolutely LOVE this book. I hate that there's a rift between the neighbors, but a good enemies to lovers is good for the soul.

Synopsis: Grace is in school to become a home designer. When she inherits a house on the beach from her grandparents, she is excited to move in and make a home for herself. The only negative is that her incredibly sexy, super grumpy, rich neighbor, Noah, wants to buy her house so he can expand his property. They enter into an all-out feud, but when they stumble into a business contract together, they both learn all about what really makes a house a home.

First of all, thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me an eARC of this book!

This book was a cute enemies to lovers, sunshine girl meets grumpy rich guy, romance. As someone who loves art and watches hours of HGTV and home reno shows, I really enjoyed it. I liked the dynamic between Grace and Noah, and how their relationship played out over the book. The "sexy times" were all "fade to black", which was nice for those who don't like to read descriptive love scenes, but my smut-loving self kind of missed it to be honest.

Over all this was a solid read and I found myself smiling while reading some of the banter and while reading about their cute dates. I did want a little more drama when it came to Grace's mom and their mother/daughter relationship, as well as Noah's relationship with his Dad. I think it would have given a bit more edge to the book and pulled me in a little more, but the drama was mostly contained to a few chapters at the end and I felt it was brushed over a little bit. That said, I still loved it and recommend it if you need a feel-good romance story to put a smile on your face!

This book immediately pulled me in: enemies to lovers, grumpy/sunshine MCs, dysfunctional parents? Literally all the tropes I love!

How to Love Your Neighbor follows Grace, an interior design student just trying to get by and not be anything like her mother, as she inherits her mother's childhood home from the grandparents she never met. She meets Noah, her new next door neighbor, who never backs down from a deal and wants to buy Grace's home to extend his property. Of course he goes about it all the wrong ways, but in the end, these two succumb to their chemistry and the story builds from there.

At times both Grace and Noah's pride and stubbornness was frustrating, but they were able to overcome those obstacles and find a balance between what they want. I also really enjoyed the design/home renovation aspect of it.

Side characters make it or break it for me, and I absolutely adored all of the characters in the novel (with the exception of Grace's mom and Noah's dad). Morty is probably one of my favorites - I'm a sucker for grumpy old man who is all bark and no bite and loves his surrogate daughter. I didn't realize this at first, but this book has some characters from Sophie Sullivan's first novel, Ten Rules for Faking It, which is the love story between Noah's brother Chris and his now-girlfriend Everly. You don't need to read that one first to understand what's going on in this novel, but I definitely plan on reading that one next.

What I wanted more from this novel, though, was seeing Noah deal with his father. I feel like it was built up throughout the book, but then we don't even see him confront his dad. I could see Sullivan writing at least two more books in this universe, so maybe we will see more of that from those?

Overall, this is a fun and completely adorable read (with just about no steam) and I look forward to reading Sullivan's future works.

How to Love Your Neighbor by Sophie Sullivan is a heartwarming, humorous, and appealing contemporary romance set in Harlow Beach, California. However it is more than your typical enemies to friends to lovers story. This novel is about all types of relationships.

Grace Travis has a few months left before she graduates with her interior design degree. To make ends meet, she has student loans and works multiple jobs. She’s inherited a bungalow on the beach from grandparents she never met and plans to move into it and renovate it. It turns out the next door neighbor is a real estate developer who plans to renovate his large house and wants to buy Grace’s home so he can expand.

Grace and Noah are great characters that felt authentic. They each have their virtues and flaws, and this adds to both the realism and the humor that is contained in this book. Their determination, family issues, desire to be successful on their own, and much more made them feel real. While there is an attraction, they also challenge each other and frustrate each other resulting in some humorous moments as well as some introspection by each. The secondary characters add conflict or support. I especially liked Morty, Josh, and Rosie who contributed something extra to the story without detracting from the main theme.

This isn’t an instant love story or a steamy book. It touches on some deeper subjects such as toxic relationships with a parent, friendship of multiple types, social anxiety, giving back to the community, asking for help, learning about yourself through relationships with others, and much more. While there were a couple of slower spots, I liked the up and down dynamic between Noah and Grace. Additionally, the deeper subjects pulled the story together for me.

Overall, I enjoyed this highly entertaining and heartfelt book. It was a refreshing change from what I typically read, but it won’t be the last one that I read by this author. Those that enjoy contemporary romances, chick lit, or romantic comedies will likely enjoy this novel. I don’t read a lot of romances except for romantic suspense and paranormal romance, but I connected with this one.

St. Martin’s Press – St. Martin’s Griffin and Sophie Sullivan provided a complimentary digital ARC of this novel via NetGalley. This is my honest review. Opinions are mine alone and are not biased in any way. Publication date is currently set for January 18, 2022.

This book is so cute! I needed a light hearted read, and this was absolutely perfect. My favorite thing about the story is definitely the characters. Grace is such a strong woman, and so so smart and sassy - I loved her! Noah is strong, supportive, and so sweet. I really liked the author’s writing style as well. I hope to read more books by them in the future!

DNF at 60%

This was such a disappointment. I was not invested at al in the characters or the romance, mainly because there was no chemistry, tension, or build up between the main characters. They moved so quickly from enemies (for a poorly developed reason) to flirty friends (for a few pages) to madly in love. That happened around the 60% mark and by then, I was too uninterested to keep reading.