While I am a fan of Sophie Sullivan on social media, I did not enjoy this book. I did not read her previous title, but I found this to be boring and a chore to read through.

Such a fun listen!! We meet two people who have so little in common you know you’re in for a good enemies to friends or possibly more storyline! All that Grace wants is a home to call her own. A place where she feels safe, secure, can plant some roots and truly make her own by using her nearly there interior design degree. She’s found that in the house she inherited from her grandparents and she couldn’t be happier about it. That is until she meets Noah, a handsome, smart and seriously annoying neighbor. He’s a successful businessman who always gets what he wants and what he wants right now is a pool right where her house is and he rarely does not achieve his goals. One look at Grace and he just knows that she is going to fall at his feet and be so grateful for the money he is going to give her to just go away. She is not of her “ilk” and surely “his” money will be a game changer for her. Let the games begin! This was so much fun to listen to. She may be small in stature, but she’s smart, tough, knows who she is an what she wants and doesn’t want or need his money. She is going to use her degree and incredible talent to make her own! This was fun, ironic, snarky and sarcastic and it was a nice change to have a woman stand up for herself and rescue herself. I am very much looking forward to more from this wonderful author. So far she is two for two.

Noah is a real estate developer trying to make a name in the home renovation world. Grace is in interior design school hope for her big break after graduation. Noah and Grace are new neighbors and they don’t start off on a good foot. For Noah to be able to renovate his home the way he wants to , he’ll have to get Grace to sell her family home. Noah and Grace are at each other’s throats and then are forced to work together.

This is a cute neighbors to hate to maybe something more story. The characters were fun and cute at times. I don’t know that I fulling connected to the characters and sometimes the story got a little stale I just needed something more from the story.

I received this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

How To Love Your Neighbor by Sophie Sullivan is a very enjoyable read. The book is well written and entertaining. Loved the characters and story line.

I enjoyed this one - a touch of enemies to lovers and forced proximity mixed with some HGTV magic. I wouldn't call it true enemies-to-lovers, since they hit it off from the beginning, but their irritation and shared meddling is fun. The slow-burn closed-door romance is sweet, and they both deal with some toxic family issues that bring them together, but I was left wanting more of their emotional bond. It's cute - go give it a read when your mood is a bit of a fixer-upper. (see what I did there? You’re welcome.)

Thanks St. Martin's Griffin and NetGalley for the advanced read in exchange for my honest review.

I wanted so badly to love this book, but it fell flat. I wasn’t invested at all and I was frustrated. I think that I’ve decided that Sophie Sullivan just isn’t the author for me.

Unfortunately this book was not for me. It had potential but it fell flat. Thank you for letting me read and review this book.

Fun, spicy, and full of heart. This book was a fast read and a joyful ride. Thank you to NetGalley and this publisher for allowing me early access to this book. Will keep an eye out for additional works by this author!

Yessss to a sunshine and grump trope it’s quickly becoming a fave for me! Home renovation made this feel like watching a mash up of HGTV and a good rom com and the couple was adorable

If you love HGTV, look no further! This book was cute and delved into a setting I’ve seen rarely in romance novels - a home improvement setting! What threw me off about this book was the pacing. I enjoyed the slow burn of the relationship with the tension in the beginning and then all of a sudden the romance started moving at a million miles an hour. Overall, enjoyed myself and would recommend!

This book had all the home renovations vibes with a closed door romance , enemies to lovers troupe. I’m a closed for kinda gal. Love a good romance but shut the door please.

Grace and Noah are neighbours and Noah desperately wants to buy Graces house she just inherited from her grandparents.

They both never suspected the home renovation and romance games that were about to hit the paint.

A cute read -- I enjoyed their dynamic and their flirty banter. I felt that at some points it relied too heavily on pretty standard tropes for the romance genre, but overall a fun cute read.

This book is amazing brilliant characters with great chemistry. The writing style is amazing I loved the story every page I loved. The author make you feel as if you in the book with them x

How to Love Your Neighbor was a cute romance book about two enemy neighbors turn lover. This is a quick beach read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I don't think that the characters blew me away or were extremely captivating and so I don't know if this is one of those books I'll ever read twice.

There were parts of this book that I thought were extremely endearing -- the fact that the main protagonist had a senior citizen/elderly as a roommate, that she had eccentric/eclectic set of jobs. All in all, How to Love Your Neighbor was cute.

Noah was just a little too fixated on his pool for me. I loved the idea of this book way more than the actual execution, but it was still an enjoyable and fun read.

How to Love Your Neighbor is technically the second book in a series by Sophie Sullivan; however, it is a stand-alone story and can be read whether the first one, Ten Rules for Faking It, is read or not. Grace is an interior design student who has inherited her grandparent’s small house on the beach. Noah is a businessman from New York, who owns the large house next door, and wants to buy Grace’s house to tear it down and build a pool. Grace is not selling; Noah is not giving up. This story contains my favorite romantic trope: enemies to lovers. But they aren’t really enemies because they kind of like each other, and they really are attracted to each other. But they aren’t giving in: Grace is keeping her house, Noah wants to buy her house.
After Noah approaches a magazine to write a story covering his home renovation, the magazine writer determines she wants Grace to design the renovation because she sees the chemistry from these two and has ambitions of her own. Of course, because this is a romance, Noah and Grace fall in love while renovating the houses.
I really liked How to Love Your Neighbor. When I read Ten Rules for Faking It, I wrote in my review I was hoping for the brothers’ stories. Thank you Sophie Sullivan for giving us Noah’s story. I look forward to Wes’s story (I’m assuming that’s the third one noted in the author’s acknowledgement in the back).
Thank you to #Netgalley and #StMartinsGriffin for the advanced copy of #HowtoLoveYourNeighbor.

Oh boy, this was just pure fun to read. So light and easy and bantery without feeling fluffy or just surface level. It just invited you to spend another hour in the story every time you opened your kindle.
The characters were unique without being all "i am SOO different and quirky", and were ones I wanted to root for.
Really enjoyed their romance and want more from this author.

Both MCs, Noah and Grace each have a voice and the cast of characters is awesome. Chris and Everly from Ten Rules For Faking It also get some time in the book as well to provide an update to their story and more insight into the Noah’s background.

The chemistry, tension and attraction is there from the meet-cute. Starts like that always reel me in!

How to Love Your Neighbor by Sophie Sullivan (2022/03/02)
Rating 3.5/5 Stars
Disclaimer: Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher (St. Martin's Press) for providing me with an eGalley to review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
How to Love Your Neighbor by Sophie Sullivan is a standalone romance but can be read as a companion novel to Ten Rules for Faking It. I suggest reading Ten Rules for Faking It before reading this one for maximum enjoyment. Check this one out if you like . . .

☆ Grumpy Sunshine
☆Meetcute
☆ Neighbours- to-lovers
☆ Workplace
☆ Found Family


Grace Travis is a student at Interior Design School who does odd jobs to make ends meet. When she inherits her grandparents' home, she believes it is now time for her to figure out her life and establish some roots. She's seeking a new beginning and a place to call home after a tumultuous relationship with her mother. All that changes when she meets her grumpy next-door neighbour.

Noah Jansen is a property developer. After moving into a new house, he is persuaded that he wants to purchase the property next to him to extend his living space. However, everything changes when he meets the woman next door and decides he might want something more than just the house.


This was a nice story. I had a lot of fun with the characters' relationships, and I enjoyed meeting all the side characters. Found family is usually something I enjoy reading about, and I believe this novel did an excellent job portraying it. What I didn't enjoy about the romance was that there was too much back and forth between the characters, and they didn't know whether they were 100% committed to each other. I wish we had seen more of the romance since things seemed to escalate quickly. There was nothing wrong with the novel. I simply wasn't as invested in the characters' romances as I would have liked.

Overall, if you are looking for a low angst neighbours-to-lovers romance I suggest checking this one out. Once again, thank you to Netgalley and the publisher (St. Martin's Press) for providing me with an eGalley to review.

This is an adorable and charming contemporary romance. The scene where Noah and Grace meet for the first time is cute and really funny. The sparks are flying right from the beginning but it's not long before they are bickering, teasing and generally annoying each other to distraction.
I loved the process where they gradually became friends whilst fighting their attraction to one another. There is plenty of sexual tension and you just can't help but want everything to work out for them.
Both are dealing with family pressures and I liked how they supported each other. The side characters were all fully developed, interesting and entertaining.
How to Love Your Neighbor is a very sweet and charming story and definitely a book to add to your read now list.