How to Love Your Neighbor is Sophie Sullivan’s third book and has some common characters with her earlier Love Is On Air, which is apparently only published in German.

Grace Travis has worked hard to make sure she does not follow in her mother’s footsteps. She works several jobs (dog walker, barista, live in companion) and is putting herself slowly through college, set to graduate in a few months with her degree in design. She recently inherited a home on the beach from grandparents she never knew but hasn’t yet moved in because she feels Morty, who she has been helping since his hip surgery several years ago, still needs her. However, when his lady friend decides to move in with him it sets Grace free to take over her own home. It will be a slow renovation process, but what an opportunity for the young designer!

As Grace moves in to her home her wealthy neighbor, Noah Jansen, makes an offer to buy it. It seems Noah wants to add a pool to his home and sees Grace’s home as disposable. For her, the house she inherited from her grandparents is her prized possession, even if it needs a lot of work!

A contentious relationship develops, but it is this back and forth that leads the editor from a major home magazine to offer Noah a three part magazine spread for the remodeling of his home. But the catch is that Grace will be his designer!

This is a humorous story told with heart as it also relays the pain each of the main characters has experienced as a result of their parents. As they find their common ground, they find so much more! With well drawn characters, a great setting, a heartfelt story, and much humor, I very much enjoyed this book and I do recommend it!

I enjoyed this romance story with all of the characters. The two main characters were Grace Travis and Noah Jansen.

Grace Travis has decided to move to her grandparents house that she has recently inherited. She has been going to school for interior design and also working at odd jobs. She can't wait to live on her own snd also fix up her grandparents house.  But after moving in her neighbor comes over to ask her if she could sell her grandparents home. She not happy about this.

Noah Jansen is a real estate developer. He has been wanting the next door neighbor land so that he can expand and put a pool in. But the next door neighbor doesn't want to sell.

This was a fun story to read and listen to. The narrative did a good job reading the story. It had quite a few laughs throughout the story that had me laughing to.

I received an complimentary audio copy via Netgalley. This is my honest unbiased opinions.

I liked this book a lot more than I expected. I love that it went past the typical romantic relationship and explored other relationships, especially between a mother and daughter. Overall really cute story and well written. I really enjoyed listening to this story via audiobook.

A sweet read with endearing characters. I loved seeing Noah and Grace grow as individuals who pushed each other and on their own. I liked the friendly competition that softened even more as they grew closer. I recommend this for people looking for something that has the trope of enemies-to-lovers but is weary of the angst it can bring. This one will be kind to your heart!

I read How to Love last summer and adored it. I am so glad to have gotten to listen to this cute story as a reread. Sophie Sullivan follows up her 10 Rules with a book that is even better than the first. Enemies to lovers and home improvement is just too good to skip

We all know that I absolutely LOVED Sophie Sullivan’s amazing book last year, Ten Rules for Faking It. So obsessed still and need to re-read after having finished this one. I loved getting to revisit Chris and Everly while meeting our new couple and watching their relationship grow and develop. How to Love Your Neighbor is much more an enemies to lovers romance or maybe an opposites attract romance? Those two seem to be once in the same lately in romance novels. They are maybe enemies for the first quarter of the book?

If you love a HGTV DIY this might just be the book for you. The main characters spend most of the book working on projects at their houses for a HGTV type magazine/online publication. That part was really fun and I could see this easily translated into a super cute tv show. Hallmark are you picking this one up??

I enjoyed the relationship between these two. It was sweet and not the typical angst enemies to lovers we typically see which I thought was nice. I adore Sophie’s writing style and will continue to read everything she writes. I especially can’t wait for her new book Lessons in Love which is about a science teacher! You know I love a teacher romance. That one is pubbed under her real name: Jody Holford.

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press and Macmillan Audio for my digital and audio copies of this book. I loved combining the two reading experiences.

Thank you NetGalley for a copy to review. This was just ok. I read a lot in this genre and some of my favorite books are in it but this left a lot lacking. I can’t exactly put my finger on why I didn’t enjoy it much. I think the writing wasn’t gripping. I didn’t care much for the two main characters.

I was so excited to read this book, but it lost my interest early on and I called it quits about 25% in because I couldn't stand either of the main characters.

This story, unfortunately, didn't do it for me. I didn’t connect with any of the characters and it really felt too instalove for me. I wasn’t engaged and it was hard for this to capture my attention. While the narration was okay, the male character voices could have been finessed. I really wanted to love this but it didn’t this time.

A chance encounter at the beach brings Grace and Noah together. Little do they know from that brief encounter that they’ll soon be neighbors. Grace is an up and coming interior designer, trying to make her dreams come true. Noah is known in NY but has moved to California to try and create his own life.

This book was light and the characters were likable. There were a lot of fade to black scenes, which I tend to prefer. While this book was a cute and fun romance read, there was nothing special that stood out to me from others - 3 stars.

add one accidental run-in, two headstrong neighbors, and a home in need of some tlc and you have just the beginning of how to love your neighbor. grace has a serendipitous meeting with her future neighbor, noah, which leaves her smitten until they meet again, when he voices his intentions on buying the home left to her by her estranged grandparents.

i enjoyed that the enemies aspect of this tale was one that was resolved early on, as the two never fit the mold of true enemies as much as two people with vastly different views and goals that were cultivated due to their parents. grace's relationship with her mother is one of take and take, while noah has a legacy that he's trying to distance himself from to forge his on path. through the story, they learn the path that works best towards getting past the mental baggage left behind thanks to their parents.

it is a closed door romance, but that doesn't distract from the tale that is equal parts sweet and loving without getting boring at any point in time, as their partnership begins as a business venture that grows into much more by the end of the journey.

In How to Love Your Neighbor we follow Grace, who grew up with an unconventional family, no real biological connections to speak of, who is left her grandparents house and is looking to put down some roots and break that cycle. Her next-door neighbor is handsome Noah, who buys houses to flip them, develops real estate and is the grumpy to her sunshine.

Things I loved :
Grace is strong and confident and not afraid to speak her mind. She is handy and can fix things on her own. She's thrifty and is really working to create a better life for herself. She has a fantastic "found family" and although she wasn't shown a great example of family, she is working hard to create one for herself in a healthy way.

The narration was great and I didn't find myself bored. It was dynamic without being cheesy and I genuinely enjoyed being along for the ride as Grace navigated the relationship with her next door neighbor. The internal monologue that Grace had was read differently, in a subtle way, and I loved that.

Overall, this is book I would recommend to any rom com reader. It's cute, quick, and doesn't have a female lead who swoons just because a man walks by!

How to Love Your Neighbor, written by Sophie Sullivan and delightfully narrated by Chloe Dolandis, is a sweet, emotional, sexy, funny, heartfelt, and romantic 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. Dolandis’ narration draws you in right away, and you can hear the smile in her voice and the laughter, frustration, anger, disappointment. Sullivan’s descriptions and Dolandis’ narration 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.

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 total ability to convince her otherwise. She’s unprepared for his stubborn refusal to take no for an answer. So begins the battle to be the last one standing in this property dispute between reluctant neighbors.

Noah is 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. I love how she brings to life a passionate, visceral emotional, intensely sexual connection between Grace and Noah 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. They slowly shift from enemies to friends to something indefinably necessary to each other’s lives, without being aware of it. Dolandis' emotional narration powerfully captures the essence of Sullivan’s prose in these scenes. 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.

Dolandis brilliantly brings Sullivan’s charming novel to another level with emotion-filled narration that captures all shifts in tones from humor, fear, anger, sadness, passion to happiness. She gives the novel’s fascinating characters distinct voices, but I loved her voice for Noah most, then Grace.

Exploring themes of family, belonging, and self-discovery, How to Love Your Neighbor is a swoon-worthy novel about letting the past go, finding home, and opening your heart to love. It’s a great listen when you’re in the mood for humor and angst with your enemies-to-lovers rom-com.

How to hate love your neighbor by Sophie Sullivan. In this audiobook we have a design study who has grown up poor with a narcissistic mother whose grandparents leave Grace their home. Right next to a millionaire who is trying to get from under his domineering father. They start out enemies but not for long

This is a wonderful #romanticcomedy about an interior designer (Grace) who moves next door to a cute real estate developer (Noah); however, it appears first impressions aren’t what they seem. Grace is looking for a place to call “home” and to feel connected, while Noah is looking to buy her place to extend his property. What will happen when he needs her designing skills for a feature in a magazine?

This is an adorable “enemies-to-lovers” filled with what a family is defined as, friendship, hard-work, family drama, romance, self-independence, strength, struggle and growing up. While it was cute and light-hearted, I loved the strength in Grace’s character, as she always knew wanted. I must admit, anytime people meet while walking dogs, I’m immediately hooked (Fun Fact: it’s how I met my husband), so from the very beginning I was loving this book! This was just released on the 18th, so if you haven’t already added this to your #tbrlist, I suggest you do so now! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Thank you #NetGalley for the #audiobook in exchange for a #bookreview. This was a delightful read and I loved the pace of the book.

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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.

This was such a. Cute book I binged it all in one go! Highly recommend this one! I've already been recommending it!

Ugh we love a handy woman!!! Grumpy Sunshine Trope !!!! I love how Grace holds her own and is always able to come up with a solution to fix whatever it is she needs to. Noah is career driven and trying to prove to his dad he can make it on his own in the business world. Both characters have parent baggage! This was a super cute read!! Highly recommend to people looking for something light and happy overall. The audiobook was great! I liked the narrator! Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this in exchange for a review.

I adored this book! I loved how well the audio was done. It did take me a while to get into the story. With the design and home improvement part, there were a lot of setting details that I missed easily if I was listening and doing something else at the same time. But I enjoyed the narration overall.

The enemies to lover at the beginning was GREAT. These characters could not have been more different and they were both not very likable in the beginning. I enjoyed the growth they both went to as characters. I felt the family parental drama really added to the story because not everyone has a great relationship with their parents, and I loved seeing that depicted in a romance, it was something different.

I also enjoyed the exploration of their relationship and the pacing of how it all works out for them.

This was a cute read and I truly enjoyed the audio.

Thank you Netgalley & Macmillan Audio for this audiobook in exchange for my honest review.

How to Hate Your Neighbor is a really cute, insta-attraction-to-rivals-to-lovers story. The main character and the love interest compliment each other very well, needing each other to grow and get out of their family drama.

It was a sweet read with some nice banter.