Grace is almost finished with her degree in design. Her skills will come in handy with fixing up the house her grandparents left her near the ocean in California. To make ends meet, she works a variety of jobs. One of them is dog walking. While she is out walking one day she meets up with her next door neighbor. It's not love at first sight since Noah wants to buy her house so he can add on a pool to his fixer-upper house. She is angry and refuses.
They end up working together so the renovations of his house can be part of a big magazine article in a prestigious publication. There are plenty of barbs and banter exchanged between the two as they try to get past Grace's animosity.
It is understandable to see how their backgrounds have led to how they are now. Grace grew up with a very neglectful single mother in a trailer park. Noah has had to deal with a father who has not set a very good example about how to live your life or run a business. Both are driven to succeed. The test of how they work on renovating Jack's house will mean a lot for the future.
The author does a masterful job of developing the two main characters in this contemporary rom-com. The secondary characters fill out the plot well. Grace's mother is a piece of work and you can't help but despise her and feel sorry for Grace and what she had to endure. Noah at first seems and little overbearing, but the reader can understand his motivation and his eventual willingness to cooperate.
The romance is fairly low key in this story, but important as it slowly evolves. I have read many romances over the past twenty years. They have entertained me and given me escape when life was tough. All sorts of tropes appeal to me and this enemies to friends tale hit all the right notes.
Sophie Sullivan is a new to me author. I will look forward to her future novels.
Thanks to Netgalley and the author for providing the digital copy to read and review.

"How to Love Your Neighbor" was a cute enemies to lovers trope book! I liked the interior design aspect, being an HGTV fan myself! This book felt like a cheesy hallmark movie. I am a fan of rom-com books, but I found this one to be just a bit too cheesy for my liking! I found myself laughing or rolling my eyes at some of the things Grace and Noah would say to each other or actions they did for each other.

If you are a fan of hallmark movies, this book will be for you!

I absolutely loved this book! Grace’s personality was the best, and so relatable. The way her and Noah bicker, combined with their intense chemistry is just too good. And I love the fix it up trope in books, and this as no exception. Such a cute and fun read

This is a good story, there is a lot of humour but it also deals with more serious issues like difficult family issues, anxiety problems, money worries, to name just a few. When Noah and Grace properly meet they are next door neighbours, both moving into their houses near the beach, both of which need a lot of work to be carried out. Grace is a student, about to finish her degree in design, and has inherited the house from grandparents she had never met, and her renovations will be carried out by her - she has no money to hire craftsmen. Noah is very wealthy, and he wants to buy Grace’s house - to demolish it so that his house has a larger garden. Little surprise that their relationship gets off to a fiery start!

The main trouble at the start is their characters are too alike, they are both hot-headed, stubborn and determined to have the upper hand, which leads to interesting compromises. Each conflict, between them or individually between them and members of their families, brings them closer together. It is a well written story, perfectly believable, and most of the characters are delightfully described, and add layers to the story

I love all things home improvement, so this was a fun read! I enjoyed the different layers to the story and found myself envisioning what was being created. My only concern was the length, I thought it got very descriptive when it wasn't always necessary.

This is a brilliant enemies-to-lovers romance - I do love this trope, it's one of my favourites, I love that the couple goes from hating each other to falling head over heels plus all the bickering between, which is always fun to read and this is no different.
I really liked the premise of this neighbours warring - I know that only too well, only there is no chance I will be falling in love with my nightmare neighbours...yuk!
The characters are very likeable and relatable. The story is one which would make the perfect TV movie, there is plenty of laughs, and it is incredibly fun and very easy to read which again is a bonus. This is a winner all around and I can't wait to read more from the author.

I am a sucker for an enemies to lovers romance book so this book sounded like just what the doctor ordered. Plus look at that cover! So cute! I didn't hate How to Love Your Neighbor, it was cute. Would I recommend it to my friends? I'm sorry but no.

Another rom com, another flop. It just felt undeveloped, and had promise to be so much better. But the cover is cute

“Why wait if you’ve found what makes you happy? Too often, people waited for the perfect moment only to have it pass them by.”

Grace is a design student and talented handyman who had a horrible childhood with her mother but inherits her grandparents beach house. For the first time she is going to have a home of her own.

Her neighbor Noah is very hot but very grumpy. They hit it off on the wrong foot because he is pressuring her to sell her beloved cottage so he can expand his property for a pool.

This book has a great romance but it also deals with relationships with toxic parents.

I really enjoyed this story. If you’re wanting a closed door romance with a grump and sunshine, this is a great book for you.

How to Love Your Neighbor was such a fun read. I will always be a sucker for the enemies to lovers sort of out-of-touch businessman falling for in this case the very down-to-earth girl next door. There was a lot I liked about this book from the writing style to the tropes used, but for me I sort of didn't fully feel the sparks between Grace and Noah. I don't know if it was a matter of the usage of fade to black, or if it was just, in general, me not really picking up on the sparks but towards the end, I sort of found myself hoping they would work it out but also just because I always root for HEA and not because I was specifically interested in their love story. I think the story is entertaining and cute, and it made me want to read Everly's story because the sections with her and Chris were super cute. I will say at times the book felt like it dragged a little, and it definitely held my interest a little more in some parts than others. But altogether I think it is a cute read that as a whole was entertaining and made me curious to read more by this author.

3 STARS
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I really enjoyed “Ten Rules for Faking It” and was very excited when I saw the synopsis for this book, but I will say, I didn’t enjoy it as much as “Faking It”.

While I liked the characters, this book is marketed as enemies-to-lovers, but definitely isn’t. There was some tension and opposing goals in the very beginning, but they were never enemies and very quickly became friends who were very attracted to each other.

I did however think this was still a very cute romcom from Sullivan. It had the sassy, witty snark that I enjoy, but also had a bit of family drama in the mix which kept the story interesting.

The character growth of Noah and Grace was what really kept this a good read for me though. There was so much that Grace especially had been through with a toxic relationship with her mother, and she had a lot of things she had to unpack and deal with.

Content: this is a closed-door romance, but not 100% chaste. Lots of sizzling chemistry and heat between the MC’s + some language.

Overall, a very cute read!

One of my favorite tropes is Sunshine meets grump. Sophie Sullivan did an amazing job with Grace and Noah. This is a funny, heartwarming page-turner.

A solid, lighthearted, fun rom-com! Especially for those of us hgtv fans! A great choice for those who like fade to black romances & are looking for a little less spice. I will say there could have been a bit more chemistry between Grace & noah but this was still an overall good, clean romance it just could have used that little extra umph.

I absolutely loved this book!!!!! Grace and Noah are adorable. I really enjoyed the uniqueness of this story. And if you love HGTV as well as romance this book is for you!!! And can we talk about Morty. He was the best. I want a book about him and Tilly!!!

An enemies to lovers troupe, with easy to love characters as well as a somewhat believable plot.

Grace has inherited her grandparents cottage on the water, while she is thrilled to move in and start renovating, she is less than thrilled with her new neighbor Noah. Grace and Noah come from two different worlds, one of privilege and one of hard work, so it seems.

We follow the relationship grow from distrust and dislike to friendship to perhaps more. Overall, this is a cute rom com book, with interesting characters who pull you in from start. Perfect beach read for the summer months.

What a great romance story with the enighbor as the main character. It was heartwarming, engaging, and playful. I enjpyed the book and it was a quick read! I can't wait for more from the author!

LOVED this book so much. I read the first in this little series, it was not necessary but added to the other characters. Grace and Noah are neighbors and have a serious love hate relationship. A fun once in a lifetime opportunity presents itself for Grace and Noah. This is the cutest book HGTV meets romcom. Looking forward to the third book in this series.

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC.

I really didn't know what to expect with this book, but I adored it. It had way less drama than I was expecting and I thought it was a great book.

Meet Grace - she is in her last semester of design school while in her late 20s and she inherits an old beach. house from her grandparents. Her mother is livid because her parents bypassed her and left the house to Grace instead. Meet Noah - he is a very wealthy early 30s man who purchases the house next to Grace. He wants Grace's house so he can make his own yard larger and he doesn't want to take "no" for an answer. It gets to the point to where Grace feels everything Noah does is solely to get the house out from under her. But in the end, can they find the relationship they both so desperately want?

This book deals with two main characters that have issues with pleasing their parents - and their parents are horrible people. I thought this book was really cute and enjoyable.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. The opinions stated above are mine without biases.

I was pulled to this book by the cover, because it is just so cute and made me want to see what the inside had in store. The inside wasn’t for me, I didn’t enjoy the characters banter or their romance. I didn’t finish this book and I’m so disappointed. I had such high hopes for it.

I loved the chemistry between Grace and Noah. The story kept my interest and I want to know more about the other couples. This is the first time reading one of this authors books, but it will not be the last.