How to Love Your Neighbor

3.5 stars rounded up the little Presentation thing Noah did at the end was too cute

This had enemies to lovers and I grinned at that because I love the trope! Even though it's much different in contemporary romances since there isn't the possibility of them actually killing each other (like in fantasies). Well done to Sullivan for the banter as it was well-written and funny to read. Grace and Noah threw around quips like they were made for it. I'm liking the sunshine/grumpy trope more and more! It's one that works well and works well with other tropes easily.

Grace brought with her Morty and he was a funny side character. He's like Carl from Up! I liked Grace because she was funny and I like to laugh with the characters. Most of the trilogy I was laughing with and sometimes at the characters.

Noah was a bit annoying most of the times. He's arrogant and thinks that with enough money he can get his way. I think the only brother who doesn't act like that is Chris. Grace deserves a medal for not slapping him (because I would have).

Their romance was cute – just had to focus on that and not his (annoying) personality. I liked the rivalry they had at the beginning and how it slowly turned to romance – as it does so often. I hope that they manage to keep the competitiveness going in their relationship – obviously in healthy ways because it was cute and I think it works well with them.

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's for providing me with an ecopy in exchange for an honest review.

Grace inherits a little beach house from her grandparents that she never knew because in a nutshell her mom is horrible. Noah lives next door to said house and decides since it has been sitting empty for a while, he wants to buy it to increase his property value and have the chance at getting a magazine spread. Grace refuses to sale and Noah refuses to take no for an answer. This is an enemies to lovers opposites attract romance. Both have parental issues that we are continuously reminded of throughout the entire book, so they are both stubborn and want to prove themselves. I loved the romance in this book. I felt like the transition from them being enemies to friends to lovers was done really well and it made sense. It was obvious they had a connection and for me personally I wish they would have gotten together sooner. I think the characters were really good at communicating with each other albeit it would usually happen after one of them screwed up. I liked the home improvement/design aspect but because I am not a creative person it was kind of hard for me to picture all of the details in my head. It would have been nice to have some pictures. Yes, I know books don't usually come with pictures but still I would have liked to see all of the things that they created because the way it was described and the reactions the characters had made it seem amazing. This book also had me laughing all throughout it. Apparently, it's the companion novel to ten Rules for Faking it which I had no clue about but now I need to go read that one. The only negative I have to say about this book is how repetitive it was with how Grace wasn't her mom and Noah wasn't his dad and they didn't want to end up like them etc. That was literally beat into my head the entire time while I was reading this, and it only needed to be mentioned once maybe twice and I would have gotten it. Overall, I really enjoyed this and look forward to reading more by this author.