I'm a huge fan of standalone series in romances, so I was excited to pick up this book from the author of '10 Rules for Faking It.'
I did really enjoy the first half of this book, and the plot seemed like it could lend to some great enemies to lovers banter. However, the 'lovers' portion felt a bit rushed, and the last half of this book felt a bit lackluster. The third act conflict felt a bit weak, but I did appreciate that it didn't fall on the "miscommunication" woes to drive thes two apart only to realize they are in love.

The friendships were sweet, especially between Grace and her found family, and Noah and his brothers. Overall, I did enjoy this book and I will definitely read the final book in this romance series. I would recommend to fans of found family, HGTV, and The Hating Game.

Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) provided by the Author and Publisher via NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

This book isn't listed as part of a series, but it definitely is. Sophie Sullivan's first book "Ten Rules for Faking It" was about the brother Chris. This book is Noah's and there is another brother and a sister, so I definitely smell a series here. This is not a single POV Contemporary Romance, which I usually don't like, so extra points for that. I love the characters and how each handles their respective families. It is written with a light touch, but there are some serious issues there too.

Is it love or hate at first sight? These two do not like each other on their first meeting, but there is a definite - zing happening.

Noah Jansen has relocated from New York to the Beach Cities of sunny SoCal. He is trying to establish himself apart from his father as a developer, but daddy dearest doing his best to impede his success. Noah has found a great beach house, a place to call home, and if he can buy the shack nest door, it would be perfect. Unfortunately, the owner, a hot little number, has no interest in selling. Noah has heard that before, but everyone has a price, and the businessman just has to play this the right way. Or is he going to get played?

Grace Travis has basically raised herself. Mommy Dearest cut ties with her family and really had little use even for Grace. When Grace inherited her grandparent's beach bungalow, she saw it as the chance to have a place and roots. Grace is about to graduate design school and start her life. Everything is good, except for the handsome hunk next door who wants to buy her house. Grace has no time for a man until he comes wrapped up with the design job of her dreams.

Talking to Noah Jansen was like being on a Tilt A Whirl. What would kissing him be like? Nope. Hard stop sign on that one. What was she thinking?

Grace Travis had a well outlined plan for her life. No handsome surfer dude turned rich businessman was going to throw her off track. Growing up wasn't easy for Grace, but she knew where she wanted to be and was getting closer and closer to that goal.

Noah was the epitome of poor little rich boy is some people's eye. His family issues center around his father, but Noah knew he was very fortunate. Still, he wanted to make a name for himself that didn't involve his dad. Meeting Grace was not in his plans. Falling for Grace was the last thing he thought would happen.

Such a great story! I am definitely going back to read Ten Rules for Faking It, Chris and Everly's story.

Sophie Sullivan brought me in as a reader from the very beginning of the book, and I never looked back!

How to Love Your Neighbor is a sweet, endearing story of Grace and her journey to find herself while dealing with her neighbor Noah who is pestering her to buy her house to use as his pool house. While this book is the typical enemies to lovers trope, Sullivan does a great job developing the characters of Grace and Noah. Grace is a young girl moving into her grandparents house after they passed away. She is trying to get out from under her mother’s negative ways. Noah Jansen is the grumpy, hot neighbor that just moved from New York. Noah wants to redo his house for a magazine spread and asks Grace to be his interior designer. This book is very predictable but has the reader Pulling for the characters throughout.

4.5/5 stars! I thought this was a refreshing book!

Noah Jansen is a wheeler dealer in real estate. Breaking away from his dominant father in NYC, he makes a bold move to California to build his own business. The house he finds on the beach calls to him for a home. If only his neighbor would take his offer to buy her house, then he could put in a pool. Only Gracie is not selling, no matter what he offers. Left to her in her grandparent's will, it is her first home. Noah tries his manipulative technic to convince to sale, but she sees through his plan. What starts out as adversaries, eventually becomes the real home they were looking for. Meet cute adversaries and witty repartee are the formula for a laugh out loud romance.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book.

How to Love Your Neighbor by Sophie Sullivan is a sweet, hilarious, emotional, page-turner about how two complete opposites, who believe they have their lives all planned out, learn surprising things about themselves, love, and life from each other while renovating their homes after unexpectedly becoming next-door neighbors. Sullivan’s descriptions are vibrant, making you feel as if you are right there on the beach, amid the fiery, chemistry-filled, passionate clashes between her two leads, or caught up in the excitement of their home renovations. Her ability to fully develop flawed, messy, frustrating characters who always seem to jump to the wrong conclusion or make bad choices without thinking first that evolve naturally during the novel and stealthily sneak into your heart, making you want them to succeed, is special. I love how she brings to life, vividly describing this passionate, visceral emotional, intensely sexual connection between her heroes and heroines that’s incredibly warm and sexy. It gives you the feels so keenly that having fade-to-black and closed-door sexual content works perfectly.

Grace Travis inherits a house on the beach from her estranged grandparents, whom she never met thanks to her toxic mother. It fits right into her plans/dreams to finish Interior Design School, fix up the house, make it her home, and start her own interior design business. Her plans are thrown for a loop, however, when wealthy real estate developer Noah Jansen moves in next door with plans to buy her house and expand his house onto her property, one way or another. But Noah’s not expecting her complete refusal to sell it and his complete ability to convince her otherwise. She’s unprepared for his stubborn refusal to take no for an answer. So begins the battle to see who will be the last one standing in this battle between reluctant neighbors.

Noah’s self-assured, stubborn, intuitive, and privileged, desperate to prove himself to the world—especially his father. An independent, driven, intelligent, hard worker, self-starter, and jack-of-all-trades, Grace wants to make a better life for herself than she had as a child. Grace and Noah share immediate electric chemistry that is fiercely emotional and sexual. Before they know it, they slowly transition from enemies to friends to something indefinably necessary to each other’s lives. Though their approaches to life are vastly different, they share more in common than expected. Both are deeply afraid of becoming their parents and, in doing so, have shut off parts of themselves from vital aspects of life. Having each other crash into their lives forces Grace and Noah to face this. Noah learns to rely on something besides his logic and intellect and relate one-on-one using his heart and emotions. Grace realizes she doesn’t have to fear having a relationship with a man—Noah—or opening her life and heart to love and trust him.

Exploring themes of family, belonging, and self-discovery, How to Love Your Neighbor is a sexy, funny, heartfelt, and romantic novel about letting the past go, finding home, and opening your heart to love. I highly recommend it for fans of enemies-to-lovers rom coms and home renovation and design.

This book was refreshing. I’ve been in a slump the past few months and this helped me get back into reading.

I loved the meet cute between Noah and Grace. Their relationship was the perfect enemies to lovers romance I needed. It was fun seeing the different ways they got under each other’s skin. I enjoyed seeing each of them slowly fall in love.

I didn’t realize this was clean romance until the end and I wasn’t sad about it. I usually like a little spice in the adult romance I read but I didn’t mind not having that in this one. I felt the story and character’s were well developed.

I would recommend this to anyone looking for a sweet romance.

How to love your neighbor was cute.. A light read with fun characters. This is the type of uplifting sweet read. I loved Graces strong character and that she was a jack of all trades. The home renovations addded something nes and fun

Grace goes to school and has lots of jobs. She also has a chance to live in and fix up a little house on the beach. Cute and a dream home it could be I do believe. She also has a road block you could say which is her neighbor. Noah is a developer who has special plans that include her house. Entertainment the two will give us as we turn the pages.

Grace Travis is finally about to finish her degree in design and move on from working tons of odd jobs. More than that, she’s inherited her grandparents’ house on the beach and can finally establish a real home, something she never had with her mother. But of course, there’s a catch in the form of the sexy neighbor who adamantly wants to buy her house.

Hotshot real estate developer Noah Jansen knows exactly how to close a deal and he knows when to make an offer. He thinks he can really make a home out of the house he’s just bought in California, as long as he can buy out the neighbor’s property to expand the yard.

Grace’s refusals to sell soon escalate into a rather unneighborly feud, with sparks flying between her and Noah, but soon it becomes obvious that those sparks between them aren’t all the contentious kind.

I both read and listened to an advanced audio copy of this book, and I really did enjoy the narration. This was the perfect thing to listen to on my daily commute and while doing chores around the house. Noah and Grace were perfect for each other, and I was so charmed by their banter, especially when everyone around them could see their connection and inevitability before they could. Grace did annoy me at times with her annoying unwillingness to be a real teammate with Noah while preaching to him about being part of a team. Thankfully, she realized this and adjusted her behavior accordingly, so I really appreciated that maturity. I loved that both of these characters were vulnerable and willing to be so with each other and any discord or miscommunication between them didn’t last long before being resolved in a healthy way. This book made me smile, so much so that I wasn’t even fussed about the lack of steam (something that normally is just not my cuppa), and I’ll be reading more from this author.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book and its audiobook. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Grace Travis has worked hard to get where she is. She works two jobs and is a college student and unexpectedly, a house owner. She couldn't be happier. That is, until she meets her next-door neighbor, Noah Jansen. He wants to buy her house to tear it down so he can put in a pool. Grace is not selling and, in this case, perhaps fences do make good neighbors. Of course, there is a fence issue. Can Grace and Noah learn to co-exist in harmony?

There is so much that is enjoyable about this story. There is a varied group of. characters who add a great deal to the narrative. Grace and Noah come from very different backgrounds. She knows what she wants and what matters. Noah is more complex and often frustrating. Then why is an attraction between them developing? The dialogue is crisp, witty and sometimes laugh out loud funny. Beautifully presented is the relationship between the protagonists from start to finish.

Packed with romance, humor and emotion, this book is well worth reading. Highly recommended.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from St Martin's through NetGalley. The opinions expressed in this review are my own.

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𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑵𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒃𝒐𝒓
𝙱𝚢: @authorsophiesullivan
𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚎: Romance, Contemporary
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𝚁𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚗: Jan. 18th 2022
@goodreads 𝚂𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚎: 3.63
𝙼𝚢 𝚂𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚎: 🏠🏠🏠 / 5 Houses

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Thank you @stmartinspress and @netgalley for this E-ARC of "𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑵𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒃𝒐𝒓". This new quirky rom-com was every bit predictable but I do love a good enemy to lover's story.

It starts out slow and sweet. This is a story that carries two characters into one of my favorite troupes 'enemy to lovers' and although the story is heartwarming, funny and sweet it also becomes predictable as well. We all know what will happen in the end. It's the ride to there what matters.

If you are unaware of anything to do with DIY, HGTV, building or painting you will not enjoy reading all the things that make this book the tale of what it is. Contests, Home and Garden magazines articles and interior design are only just a few other things you'll need to understand this interesting tale.

I loved the growth development the characters end up with throughout the story, however, feel that both female and male leads really need stronger back bones when it comes to their parents. Before the ending of the book, I would not have taken the bait these parent characters were given. I was not fond of the parent characters at all and believe that our female protagonist just ignored her mother's letters and phones calls hoping it would all just go away. I would have been a lot more persist in my views of my life when it came to all that.

I enjoyed this interesting read with my favorite troupe, however isn't a book I'd reread again.

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"A home isn't walls, a roof and floors. It's a feeling; it comes with being seen and accepted for who you are. It's finding the person who makes you feel alive no matter where you are or what you accomplish. The person who makes you feel you could have nothing and still have everything. It's unconditional love". ─ Sophie Sullivan, 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑵𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒃𝒐𝒓.

I wanted to love this one more but there was too much focus outside the relationship. I wanted chapters of the romance blossoming but instead so many chapters consisted of their friends and family and that was just not capturing my attention.

Grace Travis was finishing up her degree in interior design when she inherited a beach house from her grandparents out of the blue, whom she had never known. I liked Grace for her perseverance, her hard working attitude, doing whatever it took to be financially independent, yet still keeping her professional passion.

Noah Jansen was a real estate developer from New York, decided to move to California to break away from his tycoon father's clutch. Like Grace, Noah was trying hard to pave his own path, establishing himself independently from the influence of his father. With a vision to expand his new house, he wanted to buy off the neighboring home that belonged to Grace! Cue in neighbor nemesis turned house reno collaborators turned lovers!

Both Grace and Noah are apprehensive about relationship, which understandably stemmed from their own parental influence. While their attraction and tension were quite obvious, it's a little frustrating to me at times how they dealt with their feelings. I also want to note that this is a closed door romance, so if you're okay with it and love some interior design aspect, this book is for you!

*Special thanks to St Martin's Press Romance for gifting me this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book was a sweet little detour. Grumpy and sunshine is always a great pair and this book was no exception. This read falls into the sweet spectrum versus spicy, so take note lovers of sweet romance.

Sunshine meets grump trope that was a very fun read!

Grace is given the opportunity to live in an idealic house on the beach.. she just has to fix it up first. Unfortunately for her her neighbor, Noah, wants that property for himself. This enemies to lovers type romance is a very cute read.

Sophia Sullivan made a very heartwarming and humorous contemporary romance with this one. Absolutely recommend!

How To Love Your Neighbor is a cute romantic comedy. It is my second book by this author.

This book has dual/male+female POVs. Grace and Noah, both 3rd person POVs.

The story takes place in California. Grace (28) has inherited a beach house. Rich-boy Noah(33) lives next door.

I absolutely loved Grace. She worked multiple jobs. And was finishing her interior design degree. She was stubborn but so kind. And she was such a hard worker.

I enjoyed the banter and relationship between Grace and Noah. But my favorite thing about this book was the interior design aspect of the story. This was such a big part of the book and added so much to the story.

I also really enjoyed the friendships, especially with Morty, Rosie and Josh. And both main characters had an issue with a family member. This made the story even more interesting for me.

Overall this was a fun quick read. And an enjoyable romance!


*I didn't realize it until I finished the book. But Noah is Chris' brother from Ten Rules For Faking It. Chris, Everly and Stacey from Ten Rules For Faking It have supporting roles in this book.

BOOK REVIEW: How to Love Your Neighbor by Sophie Sullivan
Publication Date: January 18

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T.I.M.E. Book Review: HGTV-themed romance that ends up renovating your heart as well!… Plus the “heat” stays behind closed doors for readers who prefer to keep all the details in their imagination… Bonus points to the author for writing a modern romance that values developing a friendship first… And delivers some outstanding “date night” ideas!… ✨😎✨
Pages: 352
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Sub-Genre: Enemies To Lovers Romance
Time Period: Present Day
Location: Los Angeles

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

This book is a sequel but can read as a stand alone. I enjoyed this book very much. I loved how Grace and Noah’s story on how they went from enemies to friends with romance thrown in. A fun rom-com read. Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the E-ARC. This is my own opinion.

This was such a fun, will they/won’t they neighbor romance! I really enjoyed the development of their relationship with each other and Noah’s finding friendships and learning to let go a bit. It was also really nice to see how Noah and Grace both dealt with difficult family members and their own solutions to the issues. The romance was very sweet and the couple actually took the time to try to communicate well with one another. The book is fade to black. So if you were looking for on page scenes, you won’t find them here. I really did like this book overall, and think a lot of people will find the story charming!