For the most part, I liked this book. It was an easy read. I saw the twist coming. I just thought that Troy was the target, not Mallory. But not all my questions were answered. There are still some ujnresolved threads. And it was unnecessarily melodramatic. Not everything needed to be tied to Mallory's backstory and I really wish it hadn't been.

A bit cliche with bad boy and virgin but hey sometimes it is nice to read something easy. This one had some mystery thrown in too.

This story was truly hard for me to finish reading. It was over all just bland and predictable. Good girl meets bad boy with tattoos falls in love throw some drama in there and that about sums up the story. The ending felt rushed and threw together. Overall I think the plot had a lot of potential but few short.

I fantastic mature YA romance (yes there is some sex). Mallory is a sheltered, home schooled girl with overprotective parents and she spy’s on her hot neighbor Troy for 5 years. Troy does his best to hate and ignore her, but it turns out he can’t stay away from her now that she’s actually going to his school, parties, and boxing matches. The chemistry between the two is apparent from the first meeting, I loved how they grew closer and fell in love. The story had a ton of interesting twists that made the book hard to put down. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it to romance readers of all ages.

PS I think they should bring this one to Netflix, it’d be an instant hit with teens and their mothers (like me).

I made it 25% before deciding to set this aside. Mallory had one interaction with Troy and suddenly was in love and spied on him for years. She only goes to school to stalk him and fawn over his beautiful existence. Troy is hot, broody, and protective yet spiteful towards Mallory and I honestly don't care to find out why at this point. It's easy to predict that these characters are secretly in love with each other, furthering the cliche and overused trope of hot bad boy next door falling in love with average innocent girl. This reminded me of Twilight with the interactions paralleling Edward and Bella. Lots of people enjoyed this one according to Goodreads but it wasn't for me.

Thank you for giving me the chance to read this one, NetGalley.

I received this ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I didn’t like this book. I liked the beginning and a few later scenes, but most of the potential vanished.
I’ll begin with the positive.
As someone who was homeschooled until high school, I related to many of Mallory’s initial emotions, from forced friendships with other homeschoolers solely because you’re both homeschoolers to the necessity of online communities and friends. In the beginning, many of the details of her life resembled my childhood or other homeschoolers I knew.
I like how some of the teens experienced and discussed mental health issues. I enjoyed these scenes. As for the online friend mentioned earlier, I like how Nic was portrayed as a good friend and not creepy or dangerous. There’s an unexpected scene between Mallory and her neighbor which was enjoyable. As a protagonist, Mallory makes mistakes and learns from some. Kaitlyn was my favorite character, as her story was interesting.

Negative aspects of this novel outweigh the positive. The writing style is average at best. Filter words are used incessantly. Settings are sparsely described.
As for the characters, many are underdeveloped. Evie is Mallory’s first nonvirtual friend, but little is revealed about her. She serves as a plot device to bring Mallory to Troy. Mallory’s brother George exists to annoy her. Troy and Mallory have character depth, but their relationship is toxic. A significant portion of the novel is dedicated to Mallory’s excitement and anxiety about highschool, but I counted only five students she meets. As a former homeschooler, homeschooling is a small world such that any larger environment feels like a galaxy. Mallory would be fascinated or stressed by all the people she encounters, not disinterested in her surroundings.
For five years, Mallory watches Troy from her window each day. When they finally speak, he wants nothing to do with her. She keeps pursuing him, despite his clear disinterest and rejection. Mallory doesn’t take no for an answer, Finally, for an unknown reason he relents and they date. He also climbs into her room while she’s sleeping without permission or warning. They also spend little time getting to know each other or having conversations. Their relationship lacks depth Unfortunately, most of the novel focuses on this unconvincing and unhealthy relationship.
Many dramatic revelations happen in the last forty pages, leaving no time for Mallory or other characters to respond properly or convincingly. There’s some foreshadowing that leads nowhere.

I wanted to like this book because of my own experiences. However, poor writing and the romantic relationship tarnished the story.

This title was totally not for me. I read about 25% of it and then had to skip through chunks of it to get through. The premise was cute, but the execution missed the mark for me as a reader. A girl has never spoken to her neighbor but is in love because she sees him everyday and he's super hot? And then expects him to be all OMG LET'S BE FRIENDS when he firsts sees her when she starts public school? Weird. Weirder still - apparently he lurves her back! And now they've spoken only a handful of times and he's climbing in through her window? Uh... that's when I started skipping chunks. No. Chemistry. I will say, because of skipping chunks, I know I missed a ton - including a 2nd subplot about who her real dad is and prison and...? I was disappointed because it sounded intriuging, but not enough for me to go back and actually read about it. I'd be willing to read this author again though!
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Sorry to the author for it not being for me :/

This was an interesting read. I enjoyed it. The plot was unique. The author is new to me, I can’t wait to read more of her work.

I just finished I Spy the Boy Next Door and I just loved this book. I found a new favorite author in Samantha Armstrong and I can not wait to read her next boo. Mallory was a great adorable character that you'll be rooting for till the end. Mallory and Troy's relationship from start to finish is so great you'll be flipping through so fast to see what happens next. GREAT BOOK

Good storyline. Kinda unique. There were some parts in the book I found hard to believe.. Daisy kind of seems to suffer from social anxiety in the beginning of the book but suddenly she becomes an extrovert as soon as she goes to high school. I think the transition could have been described in a better way. Also the ending seemed kinda rush. Nonetheless, good effort!

A coming-of-age story about a home-schooled teen coping with anxiety attacks and the boy next door she is inexplicably drawn to. The slow burn romance has a definite twist to the ending that I did not see coming until about 60 percent into the book, especially as this started off as a cutesy YA romance!

Mallory and Troy meet first at age 12. She smiles. He scowls. She thinks its because her dog deflated his ball that sailed over the fence between their homes. They never speak again. For the next five years, Mallory watches from her window every day as Troy runs down the street revealing sculpted abs and tattoos when he tears off his shirt. This she reports back to her pen pal Nic through an online chat.

I have to admit, if I lived next door to Troy, I'd probably be spying on him, too! But, his personality would probably kill the attraction. He's so broody. Ugh. And, yet, Mallory's attraction intensifies as she gets to know him and he starts to let down his walls. While things heat up with Troy (code for lots of touchy feely!), Mallory also develops new friendships and self-admittedly becomes less "judgey" of people she didn't really know.

With all the blushing encounters between Mallory and Troy, it threw me for a loop when a murder occurs which unleashes an avalanche of memories for Mallory. All the secrets start to unravel at this point, including secrets that Troy himself has kept from Mallory. As the reader, I gotta say it was a lot to take in, but it kept the story from being overly predictable and overall it was a quite satisfying ending!

Thank you to #NetGalley for the advance reader copy of #ISpytheBoyNextDoor!

You know those books where you think it's one type of book and it turns out a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WAY THAN YOU ORIGINALLY THOUGHT?? This is that book, but in a truly amazing way! Mallory Taylor is a completely sheltered and naive character (and it's totally fitting). At first I thought, "Ugh, you cannot be THAT naive!" but those thoughts disappeared fast, and soon I was completely behind her 100% of the way as she grows as a person throughout the book. Troy Parker was an awesome character that transforms throughout the book as well. My emotions for him were all over the place, until about halfway through the book when I thought "Oh, THAT'S why he's the way he is!". I finished this book in a day. I could NOT put it down, and I am now going to devour anything else that Samantha Armstrong has written!

Mal and Troy have been neighbours for the last five years but even though Mal has had a serious crush on Troy they met only once because Mal is being homeschooled. No friends, no school, no parties - Mal finally wants to experience real school and she begs her parents' permission to go to school for her final year before college. That's when Troy and Mal start to interact more and more. and it turns out that Troy may know way more about Mal than she knows about herself. With lots of plot twists, suspence and swoon worthy moments this book is one of the best novels ever! I wholeheartedly recommend it especially for all the fans of 'The Kissing Booth' - Troy is very much like Noah from Beth Reekles's book.

I want to thank Netgalley for providing me an Arc of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I really loved this book.
When I first read the synopsis I thought I was going to be a typical YA books where the girl and boy next door fall in love but it was so much more than that.
I loved our main character and found that I related to her a lot.
The play was amazing and the twist at the end absolutely blew me away.
This book was honestly amazingly well written and I can’t recommend it enough.
I gave it 4 stars.

So I thought this was going to be a cutesy sort of book, and I think maybe it would be better categorized as NA because it felt like it except for the character’s ages. I think my main problem was I didn’t understand why Mallory liked Troy for 5 years. Because he was hot??? I think there needed to be a little more depth there as to why, especially since he was a douche to her for a bit! Eventually, they do have some great chemistry together with fantastic swoony moments! Andddddd the last 30% was really addicting!

I was looking for a mindless fun YA with loads of cheese and a little steam. I got so much more.
Over 70 percent of the book is filled with cliches. Bad boy and an underground boxing ring, check. Tattoos and Harley Davidson, check. Ms.Goody two shoes virgin with overprotective parents, check. Annoying sibling who has no purpose in the story, check. Half a decade long crush which seems unrequited only to the girl, but so obvious even to strangers, check. And yeah, there's also a gay bestfriend.
So basically, Mallory has been spying and crushing on her neighbour for over 5 years while being homeschooled by her anal retentive parents after a kidnap scare ages ago. Determined to live a normal teenage year before going to college, she pushes her parents to get her to attend a public school and there starts the story. She attends parties, underground fights, learns to sneak out of house after curfews, gains confidence, learns to get over her panic attacks after some hanky panky with the dream guy and gets a boyfriend. And the boyfriend calls her by someone else's name in a drunken stupor and carries on a mushy colloquy. Shit hits the roof and what follows is something straight out of a 80s television show. Family dramas, drug lord daddies, incomprehensible affairs, step sisters, villains, witness protections and bodyguards.
This unusual blend of noir in a YA romance was quite bold an attempt, but not as entertaining as I'd have liked. 3.5 stars.

I’m so excited I got to read this book! I’m a sucker for a classic YA - girl has a crush on boy, meets boy and they fall in love, but something is in their way. BUT! This book had something extra thrown in - a twist that I did not guess AT ALL. Seriously, y’all. I did NOT see that one coming and it was so crazy and so perfect.

I will say that there were some sections with sex that I was not really expecting. It didn’t bother me, but I also wasn’t expecting as much detail as there was.