Grace Travis is finishing design school and working a million odd jobs when she decides to finally move into the home that she inherited from the grandparents she never met. Upon moving in, she discovers that her neighbor is the very attractive but grumpy Noah Jansen.

Noah is determined to convince Grace to sell him her house so he can demolish it and put in a pool, but Grace is unwilling to part with the only connection to the family she wasn't given an opportunity to know. Her mom was unreliable and that remains unchanged in Grace's adult years.

How to Love Your Neighbor is a fantastic enemies to friends to lovers story. I loved how the relationship between Grace and Noah developed, especially during their painting or styling competitions. I am always impressed when a primarily FTB story feels extremely sexy and romantic without being explicit, and Sophie Sullivan gets a gold medal for achieving that in this book.

Noah's brother Chris appeared in Ten Rules for Faking It, and I loved seeing more of Chris and Everly in How to Love Your Neighbor. This isn't a series and can easily be read as a stand alone, but I think that the relationship between the Jansen brothers and their father is given additional depth if you have the context of Ten Rules for Faking It.

How to Love Your Neighbor is a sweet story of opposites attracting. Grace is a go-getter. She is used to doing things for herself and is quite capable. Noah is easygoing. He has an assistant and he hires people to do most of the work for him. They both have a parent who has made their lives rough and left them with some baggage. The chemistry between Grace and Noah is evident early on in the story. Between their competitiveness, banter, and cute close proximity moments, their story made for a great read.

I appreciated how the book was more than just Noah and Grace. We are given a good dose of their backstories which made understanding their perspectives and personalities easier. Both Grace and Noah coming in with a bad relationship with their parent, and they are both interested in settling down and proving themselves. Also, these two have better than average communication, which made me very happy. The romance is a slow burn and we get to enjoy a lot of little moments that the two share. However, the road to a happily ever after isn't easy and that gave the story depth.

When you add in the great secondary characters, How to Love Your Neighbor easily held my attention.
Thank you, St. Martin Press and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

The book’s premise was very attractive to me and I wanted to like this book. It was a slow start for me, but then I got into the story and enjoyed it...for awhile. Once the characters got together, I pretty much lost interest in the book as the end was very predictable. I hadn’t gotten attached enough to the characters to really care about their Happily Ever After. I’m sure many will enjoy this book, but it just didn’t quite hit the mark for me.

"How to Love Your Neighbor" was a fun story. Grace was raised by a single mother who was more interested in finding her next boyfriend than taking care of her daughter. She left home at eighteen and now she is working multiple jobs and finishing up her degree in interior design. Her mother was estranged from her parents, so Grace never had the opportunity to know them. However, when her grandparents died, they left their beachfront house to Grace. Noah is from a wealthy family of property magnates, but he also has parent issues, with a father who lives for the next acquisition, and is not supportive of Noah's desire to use their wealth and property to give something back to the community, as Noah's grandfather did with a community center he built in New York City. To escape his father and try to make his own way, Noah has left New York for California, where one of his brothers lives. He purchased a beachfront house and he wants to purchase the property next door, so he can tear it down and build his dream home. The property has been unoccupied and efforts to contact the owner unsuccessful. However, when he sees someone moving in (Grace), he offers to purchase the property for double its value. Grace refuses the offer, as she wants to make the house her home and feel a sense of connection to the grandparents she never knew. Noah is used to getting his way in property deals and is not going to give up. A series of mishaps and home renovation projects cause their paths to repeatedly cross, and eventually a friendship and a business relationship develops.

While the story focuses on home renovation, it also involves renovation of the lives of Grace and Noah. The behavior of their respective parents has colored their approach to life. Grace has a good and eclectic group of friends who are willing to help out as needed. This is something she shows Noah through organizing a painting party and other events. However, when it comes to her career, she wants to succeed on her own merits, which makes her reluctant to take advantage of opportunities or assistance, even when deserved and freely given. Noah has been trying to gain his father’s approval, while at the same time resisting his father’s attempts to control him and his definition of success. Through Grace and the home renovation, Noah will figure out what he truly wants for himself and his business career.

The story has lots of funny moments— how Grace and Noah meet, Noah’s attempt to be friends with his personal assistant, Noah’s first attempt at exterior painting, buying a couch, and over-the-top apologies (Noah is not used to apologizing), among other things. There are also some sweet and tender moments. Grace and Noah, and their friends and family (Noah's brother and his girlfriend), are characters the reader will enjoy learning more about.

I received a copy of the e-book via NetGalley in exchange for a review.

I received an advance copy of, How to Love Your Neighbor, by Sophie Sullivan. Will Grave and Noah learn how to love their neighbor? This was a pretty good book.

This story was very fun,
All the laughs, feels and banter. The author did a good job of creating a world of enemies turned to lovers.
I hope you read this cause it’s a fun ride

Such a devourable read! This story was exactly what I wanted and needed. I truly loved Grace and Noah. It was such a fun progression from annoying neighbors, to friends, to so much more. They both have such polar opposite personalities, but they just click so well. It was entertaining to watch unfold. Sophie Sullivan
knows how to bring the banter between her characters to life and I always enjoy reading her stories!
A total MUST READ in my book!

Special thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions.

A cute story but there wasn’t anything incredible unique about it. I found that I didn’t love anything about it, but I also didn’t hate anything about it either. The characters themselves were not very memorable and considering it’s classified as an adult romance I found that the romance was mainly fade to black. The couple themselves fit well together.

Oh I adored this book! Our main character is a feisty single designer who falls in love with her next door neighbor! I adore enemies to lovers romances, and this one was done particularly well! The dates were swoon worthy and this was a pretty closed door romance! If you want a sweet romance with no smut, then this is the book for you! I really enjoyed it and would happily read it again!

Meet Grace, an almost interior design grad who just moves into her grandparents old house that they left to her without ever meeting. Meet Noah, big hot shot real estate developer (or something like that idk what he really does), who wants to buy the house next door to his to make a mega home, but really all he wants is a pool, like how big could a pool get, really? Only problem is, the neighbor doesn't want to sell because SHOCKER *sarcasm* its Grace. Plot ensues, Grace ends up becoming Noah's interior designer, yada, yada, yada.

Going into this book I was expecting some pretty great enemies to lovers, I mean the cover?? I'm gonna tell you right now, this book being marketed as an enemies to lovers is wrong. Maybe "slight nemesis for two chapters" to lovers is more realistic. Don't get me wrong, that's not necessarily a bad thing, but when I pick up a book like this, I'm expecting some good tension and build up. This is basically Noah messing something up and then apologizing within the next page, and BOOM everything is great again.

Now onto the serious question..... Is it spicy??? No. It is not, this is very much rated PG. Again, not necessarily a bad thing, this really is the quintessential romcom, but in my opinion it just wasn't super great. Nothing memorable, but not bad either. Would I recommend? Maybe to someone who just started reading romance books, otherwise probably not.

I just made a big move myself, and it was nice to escape from my own changing life to see how someone else acts and reacts in the face of change. So glad I got to read this early. get your hands on it asap especially if you love that group/sunshine trope!

The enemies to lovers element in this made me instantly ask for a copy and read it.

Since the beginning I got so invested that I couldn’t put it down.

Although the middle part felt slow-moving the amazing characters and funny scenes made it enjoyable.

A cute, cheesy and funny romance that I adored.

★★★★★ (4.5, rounded to 5)

Synopsis:
Noah Jansen is a real-estate developer looking for a fresh start in California, away from his father’s name and business. Noah's first step into putting down roots? Buying the house next door so he can expand his dream property.
However, his new neighbour is Grace Travis, a soon-to-be design school graduate who just inherited her grandparents’ beach front home. Determined set out on the next stage of her life without the help of anyone else, she’s starting by flipping this into her dream house (and home).
When the two get off on the wrong foot, there may be no salvaging a neighbourly relationship.

Review:
This is a really sweet enemies to lovers, sunshine/grumpy, opposite attract contemporary romance (emphasis on the sweet). I genuinely really, really enjoyed this book. This was such a great book to sit down and read in one sitting and left me feeling all kinds of sunshiney.

Noah and Grace have incredible, fiery chemistry right off the bat. Their banter is so funny and enjoyable and makes for such an easy, lighthearted read. The premise behind the contempt for one another isn’t particularly dramatic and their dynamic as “enemies” wasn’t overly strong in my opinion (they seemed more like sassy, competitive friends). However, I do think that the reasoning behind the conflict from both sides becomes a lot more obvious and understandable when Grace and Noah’s backstories are revealed. I think that the extent to which their backgrounds and families were discussed were necessary to understand the characters and their motives, so I really appreciated the length of the novel. The length also made this seem like a really, really, really slow burn which I LOVE. I do wish that at the end of all of that tension and chemistry, there had been some spice reward though. This book is all sweet, no spice except for a couple innuendos/jokes and a few fade to black, closed door scenes (which especially sucks for a HOT SURFER GUY).

Overall, this is a really wholesome, cute read that’s easy to indulge in and will definitely put a smile on your face.
P.S. Noah may be a man who can’t settle down, but Noah is DEFINITELY a man who has been to therapy and knows how to talk about his feelings. That was such a refreshing aspect of this story and the dialogue and saved me from one of those all two common contemporary romance reads where you're just screaming at your book because the leads just need to communicate!!! Like Noah actually says this at one point: “We’ll both need to be careful to talk to each other. Everything falls apart without communication.” Amazing.

This is my first read from Sophie Sullivan.

I think my most favorite part of reading
How to Love Your Neighbor is that I felt like I should have been done based on books like this by other authors, but in fact Sophie wasn't going to rush through to get to Noah and Grace's HEA. She was going to give us every stomach twisting, eye rolling flop and flounder that couples go through when they're learning about each other. Books in the past have thrown one obstacle in front of the main characters and then wrapped it up pretty quick. Sophie gave Noah and Grace an honest build up, crash multiple times and they were worth the read.

The idea of the obnoxious smexy neighbor with money trying to buy his happy from the girl next door is common but this felt different. Both characters came from challenged childhoods with their own issues. Solidly built characters that are relatable and fun. Emotional traumas that don't really make them who they think they are. Secondary characters that were entertaining, could hold their own, but didn't take away from Noah and Grace.

All around a great five star read to wind down with after a stressful and chaotic week.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Well-paced enemies to lovers rom com. Loved the interior design theme! I laughed a lot and enjoyed the story. There wasn't a huge climax and not much drama, but it had enough content to keep me intrigued,
If you are looking for a light, fun read definitely read this!

Well-paced enemies to lovers rom com. If you read Sophie Sullivan's earlier 10 Rules for Faking it, you will run into some familiar characters. But, it is NOT necessary to have read that one before picking up this one. Very good chemistry between the main characters. Charming and enjoyable.

What a fun book! From the very first page with the dogs escaping from Grace and her getting tangled up in their leashes in front of Noah, How to Love Your Neighbor by Sophie Sullivan was the perfect sunshine heroine/grumpy hero rom com. I loved their banter and the emotional wounds that made their story arcs so heartfelt and uplifting. This was my first book by Sophie Sullivan but will definitely not be my last!

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review.

What can I say? I'm a sucker for chic lit. This book checks all the boxes. It was a decent read. Felt a little flat.

I know this is an ARC - but there were tons of spelling, grammar, punctuation, formatting issues. Most ARC'S I have read may have a couple but this was a lot.

My advice is to definitely send it back to an editor to read and review.

Other than that, it was a cute read.

Grace and Noah – it's hate and annoyance at first sight.

Noah, looking to strike out on his own away in California far away from his overbearing father in New York, purchases a beach front property with the aim of flipping and selling for a killer profit and amazing press. Buying the property next door would only add to the value on his would-be sale, what with a pool facing the ocean.

Grace, looking to be successfully independent in her newly inherited home, has absolutely no intention of ever yielding her family home to this new-to-town real estate tycoon. An almost-graduate from design school, Grace has plans of setting down and in, and Noah’s attempts to buy her land and force her out of her grandparents’ home sets off a neighborly war that oftentimes isn’t anywhere near friendly.

In this sweet and frothy enemies-to-lovers romance, the two square off with land surveys, painting competitions, and interior design contests. What initially begins as extreme frustration for the both of them with completely different hopes for their real estate outcomes eventually turns into a thoughtful and loving expression of what a contemporary romance could be.

Grace and Noah both are vulnerable, willing to grow, and take great pains to be sensitive and apologetic as needed. It was refreshing to see a couple not fall victim to miscommunication in the name of unnecessary plot devices. In terms of spice, this fade-to-black romance is a little steamy throughout but remains closed door all throughout the story. The happily-ever-after is a guarantee, and so the grand gesture was a little anticlimactic; the reader will pretty quickly piece together the fallout of the two plot lines affecting their respective characters.

In all, it was an excellent story that was funny, refreshing, and a joy to read. I would happily recommend this to anyone who enjoy contemporary romances!

Grace wants nothing more than her own home, so when she moves in to the house left to her by her grandparents, nothing is going to get her to give it up, especially not her new neighbour.

Noah left New York to get away from his father, and make his own way in business. he is used to stopping at nothing to get what he wants, so what will happen when he is up against Grace, who is determined not to let him get his own way.

I like how it is told from both points of view and also that you catch up with characters from the previous book too.

A great read - can't wait for the next book in the series!