Review: How to Love Your Neighbor

How to Love Your Neighbor by Sophie Sullivan
My rating: 3 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.

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