I am very quickly realizing that my preferred trope with friends-to-lovers vs enemies-to-lovers is ENEMIES-TO-LOVERS! And this week, I was very fortunate to read a great enemies-to-lovers story with How to Love Your Neighbor by Sophie Sullivan.

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.

I adored this cute story. There was a perfect blend of the back and forth between Noah and Grace, Grace trying to finish her degree in interior design, and both of them handling their crazy parent figures. The romance is fade-to-black (which I love) and I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough to see how they would overcome their differences. The relationship between Noah and his father, and Grace with her mother, was also very interesting and had me hooked to see how it would play out.

My only complaint was that when the story ended, I still wanted more. What happened next? I didn’t want to leave Grace and Noah behind! This is the type of story that gives off all my Hallmark movie feels, and I am HERE FOR IT!

I saw that Sophie’s first book, Ten Rules For Faking It, was about Noah’s brother Chris and his girlfriend, Everly. I will need to check this book out immediately, if not sooner.

This book is out now!

A huge thank you to St. Martin’s Press for providing a digital copy for review via NetGalley! All opinions are my own.