Next Door Nemesis Review

By Alexa Martin

Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Audiobook rating: 🎧🎧🎧🎧

Blurb

Two rival candidates for a homeowner’s association presidency are about to find out how dirty suburbanites fight in this steamy new romantic comedy from Alexa Martin.

After years of hustling, Collins Carter has finally made it...back to her parents’ house. Between tending to the compost with her newly retired dad and running into her high school nemesis at the only decent coffee shop in town, Collins realizes this subdivision from hell she swore she’d never return to is her rock bottom.

Then the homeowner’s association complaint arrived.

Nathaniel Adams always dreamed of a nice, quiet life in his suburban hometown. Or at least that’s what he thought until Collins moved back and sent his quaint, organized life into a tailspin. He thought Collins was infuriating ten years ago, but when she announces she’s running against him for HOA president, all bets are off.

From secret board meetings to vicious smear campaigns whispered over backyard fences, Collins and Nate sink to levels their sleepy suburb has never seen before. But as hate turns into lust, these two enemies are forced to reckon with the feelings they’ve ignored for years. If only there were bylaws for real life.

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Read if you Like:

🏡 Enemies to lovers

🏡 HOA presidential rivals

🏡 Childhood friends

🏡 Second chance

🏡 Suburbia setting

My Thoughts:

Thanks to PRH Audio for gifting me this audiobook! All opinions are my own.

Story - I am a big fan of suburbia drama so I knew I had to read this one once I heard the premise. It definitely brought the humor I was expecting and I enjoyed the romance.

I liked Collins and Nate as a couple. I am a sucker for childhood friends who find a connection as adults. I liked that this story was both childhood friends to lovers and enemies to lovers. That's a combination I haven't seen that often.

I was hugely entertained by the HOA race and their tactics. I also appreciated that Collins reflecting on how it was difficult to grow up biracial in the Midwest. I thought it was interesting to see that when Collins moved to LA those problems didn't disappear.

I recommend this book to anyone looking for a funny and spicy romance that has insights into the good and bad of both suburbia and larger cities. It is especially perfect for fans of an enemies to lovers romcom.

Spice - This book had several spicy scenes that were pretty detailed as well as some sexual tension.

Audiobook - I listened to the audiobook version of this title and enjoyed it! Jade Wheeler is a new to me narrator but I thought she did a great job despite this being one of her first romance audiobooks. This book is single POV and the audiobook is single narrator.