Review: How to Love Your Neighbor

How to Love Your Neighbor by Sophie Sullivan
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This may very well be the book you are looking for when you need a couple of hours of light reading while on a long plane trip or out at the beach. But, unfortunately, it was just not my particular glass of wine! 

This book had a lot of potential, in my opinion.   The enemies-to-lovers plot device could have been perfect.  However, I have never seen "enemies" become best buddies in such a short period. Apparently, decorating each other's houses is excellent therapy!  Who knew? 

Grace just seemed to be a bit spineless. Noah was the quintessential poor little rich boy.

 Then we add on the dysfunctional families plot device -both Noah and Grace have severe issues with their families.

Unfortunately, I didn't feel any chemistry with Noah and Grace.  I did, however, learn an awful lot about decorating, though!

The curmudgeonly 'older friends with a lot of wisdom' device showed up here too.

This book almost felt like the pacing was for a novella and not a full-length book.

And while I'm discussing what bothered me, I know that this is an ARC, but I think the problems with editing should have been taken care of by now.  For example, a magazine called Home and Heart at first was then called Hearty Home later on in the novel.  Then the name went back to the original toward the end of the book.

You may also need to strain your suspension of disbelief muscles for a few more parts of this book.

All in all, this is not a 'bad' book; it just wasn't the tension-filled book I was expecting.

*ARC supplied by the publisher, author, and NetGalley.

SYNOPSIS:"A frothy, effervescent romantic comedy from the author of Ten Rules for Faking It, Sophie Sullivan's How to Love Your Neighbor delivers another read that will have you delighted from start to finish.

Interior Design School? Check. Cute house to fix up? Check.

Sexy, grumpy neighbor who is going to get in the way of your plans? Check. Unfortunately.

Grace Travis has it all figured out. In between finishing school and working a million odd jobs, she’ll get her degree and her dream job. Most importantly, she’ll have a place to belong, something her harsh mother could never make. When an opportunity to fix up—and live in—a little house on the beach comes along, Grace is all in. Until her biggest roadblock moves in next door.

Noah Jansen knows how to make a deal. As a real estate developer, he knows when he's found something special. Something he could even call home. Provided he can expand by taking over the house next door--the house with the combative and beautiful woman living in it.

With the rules for being neighborly going out the window, Grace and Noah are in an all-out feud. But sometimes, your nemesis can show you that home is always where the heart is."

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