READERS GUIDE
Reader’s GuideNext-Door Nemesis by Alexa Martin
Discussion Questions:
1. When Next-Door Nemesis begins, we find out that Collins has recently moved back into her parents’ home after a video of her misbehaving goes viral. Have you ever gone viral? How do you think you would react to becoming “internet famous”?
2. Collins and Nate have two very different views of the HOA and what it does. Does your neighborhood have an HOA? How do you feel about homeowners’ associations?
3. Collins’s neighbor, Ashleigh, joins multiple multilevel marketing groups. Have you or would you ever join one? If you started your own MLM, what would you sell?
4. You are officially running for your neighborhood homeowners’ association. What is your campaign slogan?
5. In order to get back at Nate, Collins decides to run against Nate for the HOA board. What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve done in the
name of petty revenge?
6. Collins often speaks about her experience of feeling “othered” growing up and how it has affected her into adulthood. How do her past experiences impact her ability to open up to Nate and trust her community?
7. Throughout the course of the book, Collins’s idea of where and what home is transforms. What does home mean to you?
8. Collins uses her writing to express her feelings. What hobby or passion helps you when you’re feeling overwhelmed?
9. If you were elected to your HOA board and could create any bylaw for everyone to follow, what would it be?
10. Nate and Collins have a bumpy history together that colors the way they see each other years later. Are you a grudge holder? What’s the longest grudge you’ve held?
