Throughout the book, I felt frustrated by immaturity. They're grown adults, and they do things like draw mustaches on each other's faces, that's just weird to me. It was a cute and easy read, but overall, it disappointed me, especially with June's character.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for providing me with this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

A fun, but predictable read. The characters were a little more dynamic than most, but I'm a little sick of manic pixie dream girls in every romcom. Definitely a good listen, and more complicated than most of this style, just not quite good enough to stand out.

A wedding between mutual friends reunites high school enemies, but the line between love and hate is definitely a blur in this situation.

June and Ryan have been playing games and keeping score since high school - slowly driving each other crazy. As it turns out, the crazy they were driving each other wasn’t out of hate and they never were enemies after all.

I’m a little tired of the enemies to lovers trope, particularly when the story is based on miscommunication. This was a lot like The Hating Game (but more PG-13), but I think I liked this one better because it wasn’t so malicious. I did want to scream at them to just talk for a second, but then we wouldn’t have a book, would we?

This book is good if you’re looking for fluff without having to skip anything for being too adult or if you want to read more books about people holding grudges out of misunderstandings.

Thank you to the publisher and #NetGalley for an ARC audiobook!

From the synopsis I really thought this was going to be an enemies to lovers and it was most certainly not. Instead it was a book about two people who were pining for each other the whole time. Wishing the book was something else sort of ruined the it for me. I do think the writing was good and I enjoyed the setting. The narrator also did a fantastic job.

Cute and easy to listen to Rom Com.
I do with June was a bit more mature about the past and all that, but of course HEA and the relationship was super sweet at the end.

Great book. I recommend

My favorite book trope is enemies-to-lovers and from the title of this one, The Enemy, you can guess that I was happy to read it. June and Ryan have been sworn enemies since high school, especially when he almost kissed her at graduation, and she wanted him to kiss her, but then he left town instead. Twelve years later they are reunited to stand up for their best friends, Stacey and Logan on their wedding day. Can they make it through a week of wedding events without killing each other? What I most enjoyed about this romantic comedy was the honesty the characters showed each other in their words, feelings and thoughts. It wasn’t a bunch of getting feelings hurt over silly misunderstandings, but rather a grown up relationship. And June and Ryan definitely had hot and spicy chemistry even with all the snarky, hilarious banter they shared.

DNF. I read one Sarah Adams book and really enjoyed it so I decided to try a few more and each one has disappointed me. This one is my least favorite so far because June is probably the most immature, annoying person on the planet. How anyone could let her "hate" for someone color her life that way is beyond me. It would be absolutely impossible for her to be happy with all that toxicity around. I know others have really enjoyed this book and maybe it was just bad timing on my part but this just wasn't for me.

The Enemy is a funny Rom Com. When June's best friends are getting married, she is stressed out about the fact that she is going to see Ryan Henderson for the first time in 12 years. June and Ryan had a love/hate relationship in high school. Immediately after graduating from high school, Ryan headed to Europe to attend culinary school. They had not seen each other since graduation but Ryan is coming in town as he is the best man in the wedding.

June is anxious to let Ryan know that she is a successful business owner and tells him immediately upon seeing him. She was not aware that he was a successful Michelin Chef in Chicago. There is tension and a spark of attraction between the two during the week prior to the wedding. This is a fun book that I recommend,

This was a cute romcom esque easy to listen to audiobook. Love when there are different perspectives! I would recommend this book to a friend.

“the enemy” had the banter of “the hating game” and the pranks of “meet you in the middle.” i wouldn’t necessary categorize this as an “enemies to lovers” romance but instead a “second chance/friends to lovers/workplace” trope. i really enjoyed the beginning where ryan and june are helping their best friends’ wedding. i thought their dynamic here was the most interesting but i had a difficult time connecting with ryan, june, and their romance because the plot felt all over the place. yes, june and ryan were high school classmates and they establish very quickly that they’ve had feelings for each other since graduation. it’s also true that they’re both part of the food industry and are competing to expand their companies. any banter (my favorite part of rom-cons) fired between the two of them subsided pretty quickly and they resulted to lil pranks on each other, which i wasn’t a fan of. i felt like ryan was always looking over june’s work and lurking in the background.

i listened to the audiobook version of “the enemy” and i really enjoyed the casting of june and ryan. i thought this was a fun, quick read and it was full of the most delicious foodie talk! between june’s work at the bakery and ryan’s recipes at his restaurants, you’re in for a treat! i thought the epilogue was the absolute cutest and did a great job of tying all the loose ends together

I listened to the audiobook and really enjoyed the story. The casting of the male and female voices were great. The characters were sassy and fun and it was interesting listening how they went from high school to adulthood still carrying on the love/hate passion. I thought the best part was the last chapter, which I was laughing out loud at what had transpired. This was a very enjoyable story with characters that were flawed, but fun.

Sarah Adams is one of my favorite authors, so I was very honored to have the opportunity to listen and review this audiobook. After loving The Match, I couldn't wait to get started on this one. When listening to audiobooks from different points of views, it is always a plus that there are more than one narrators. This audiobook had this, and the narrators had voices that were energetic enough to keep you interested, but not too energetic that the voices grate on your nerves.
As far as the story, I preferred The Match over The Enemy. It was not until about 42% into the audiobook that I got really hooked. The first half of the audiobook was good enough to pick it up to listen the next day, but not good enough to keep me from going to bed on time. Once I got to 42%, I was a goner. I knew that I was going to listen to it nonstop until the very end. The moment was when they were in the shower and June finally admitted that she lacked self confidence after her fiance cheated on her. You can tell in the first half, but when she finally comes clean and puts it out in the open as a woman, I could really connect. It also was uplifting that a man was eager to be with someone they aren't already committed to, even when their body has changed.
The characters are relatable and easy to connect with. The cover is also really adorable.

Another cute Sarah Adams book! I’d give it 3.8 stars! I loved Ryan, found June a little annoying even though I understood where she was coming from.
Sarah Adams is amazing at tension but all while keeping it closed door.
She also does the best epilogues!!
Story wise just wasn’t my favorite of hers but I have read ALL of her books. I love them.

I really wanted to like this book, but I was frustrated by the immaturity throughout. They are grown adults that do things like draw mustaches on each other's faces, that just seems weird to me. It was a cute storyline but there were so many missed opportunities to make more out of funny scenes.

I really enjoyed this book! It felt less like enemies to lovers and more like friends to lovers/second chance romance.

The Enemy is about June and Ryan, high school enemies reunited for their friend's wedding. June has always hated Ryan... kinda. More like loves to hate. They were always trying to get under each other's skin. Things were made worse when after graduation Ryan goes in for a kiss which June tilted her head to accept before Ryan pulls away. June resents and is embarrassed about this final encounter and wants so badly to prove to Ryan that she is in a better place in life.

Enemies to lovers is kind of hit or miss for me. Sometimes it feels like a couple's actions have gone too far to make a convincible love story. That was not the case here. June and Ryan's enemy phase was in high school while they were still very much children. Although there were plenty of childish moments, the focus was on moving past their history, building trust, and healing their own trauma. All in all, I thought this was silly, cute, and definitely worth the read.

This book is set up to be an enemies-to-lovers book but the characters actually liked each other the entire time? Not really not what I expected here but, unfortunately, I was way too annoyed by June to really enjoy it.

Ryan was a better character but, for some reason, June is totally fine with him entering her home with a spare key he found outside for some reason? I think this was going for quirky but it all landed on creepy instead.

The bones of this one were good but the characters did not feel fleshed out enough. Ryan was essentially a manic pixie dream boy without any substance and June grated on my nerves at every turn.

Not the enemies to lovers I expected but I ended up really liking it. Something about the main love interest literally being in love with the MC for years is kind of cute (also a little stalkery bc she hated him).


I partly listened to the audio book and then also read it but I really enjoyed the voice actors of this (jasmin audiobook arc??? jk)

Would definitely recommend to anyone who really just wants something fluffy to read :)

Are you the type of reader that always has to have an audiobook going, or nah?

I am lost without an audiobook! I always need on going and if I don’t have one I find one before I can move on with my task.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
🔥 (closed door)

It was on my audiobook hunt a few weeks ago on @netgalley that I saw The Enemy by (my fave) Sarah Adams come up! I squealed, requested, then prayed to the book gods to approve me asap! It was SUCH a great audiobook! I missed June and Ryan! The enemies to lovers RomCom hit just the right spot! Listening to dual narrators was awesome (although I did think the girl narrator sounded a bit angry 😂) and overall it was an easy, fun, entertaining re-read.

2.5 stars

Unfortunately, this book really didn’t work for me. It sounded promising, but it kind of grated on my nerves the whole time. I didn’t like the protagonist or her love interest too much. Her defining character trait seemed to be that, since one (1) significant man had hurt her years ago, she had internalized everything bad he said to her and, consequently, just kind of hated herself. I get it, and I’m not unsympathetic to this dynamic, but it’s not what I was looking for here, in what I hoped would be a fun and lighthearted romance. The story was melodramatic and over the top, more in a cringey way than in a fun one; further, it just felt like the book was really hitting all of the clichés that I (and others) kind of hate about the rom-com genre. As much as I enjoy the enemies-to-lovers trope, the way it’s executed seems to disappoint me fairly regularly (and I’m not sure if that’s more because of my hopes or expectations than anything else, but it’s possible). Anyway, this one was a miss for me personally, but I’m sure there are others who will be able to enjoy it more.

The Enemy was an enjoyable read but had some challenges. While the story has the witty banter I love in romance novels, the characters felt more like friends than romantic partners. I wanted to feel as though the couple were genuinely falling into adult love and never felt this happen.

June and Ryan had always felt attracted to one other from a distance in high school but never acted upon this. The two are reunited when Ryan returns to Charleston for a wedding twelve years after they graduate from high school. June is still holding a grudge from a moment in high school when Ryan goes in to kiss her but then walks away.

The book lacked the maturity and chemistry between the two protagonists that I was expecting. Indeed, the relationship between June and Ryan felt more like they were back in high school than it did as a couple in their thirties which I found to be disappointing.

On a more positive note, there were also some humorous moments in the book including a funny scene with June in the ladies’ washroom. Moreover, there is plenty of witty banter and pranking between June and Ryan. June’s family and their antics were also a joy to read about.

I listened to the audiobook version of The Enemy which was narrated by Connie Shabshab and Lee Samuels. Their performance was full of expression and easy to listen to. I would not hesitate to choose the audiobook version for those who appreciate this format.

3.5 stars (rounded up to 4)