Review: Tiny House, Big Love (Love Unscripted #2)

Tiny House, Big Love (Love Unscripted #2)
By Olivia Dade

Publication Date: August 29, 2019
Date Read: June 7, 2023
Genre: Adult – Romance
Source: Bought
Format: E-Book
Pages: 158

From Goodreads:
On camera. Up close. In denial–but not for much longer…

After a relationship gone bad, Lucy Finch is leaving everything behind. Her old home, her old job, her old insecurities. Even Sebastián Castillo, her protective but intensely private friend of almost twenty years. Before she moves halfway across the country, though, she has one last request for Seb: She wants him to help her choose a tiny house on cable television. And maybe during the filming process, she can discover once and for all whether his feelings for her are more than platonic…

Sebastián would rather do anything than appear on HATV. But Lucy needs him, and he can’t say no. Not when she’s about to leave, taking his heart with her. Hiding how he feels with a television crew watching their every move will prove difficult, though–especially when that crew is doing their sneaky best to transform two longtime friends into a couple.

Tiny spaces. Hidden emotions. The heat generated by decades of desire and denial. A week spent on camera might just turn Lucy and Seb’s relationship from family-friendly to viewer discretion advised…

After reading the first novella in the Love Unscripted series a few weeks before, I was really excited to dive into this one. I’d really enjoyed the first novella… and I wish I was writing this to say I felt the same with this one, but unfortunately this one just didn’t hit it for me. I will say, when I picked this up I was in a huge reading slump, so that absolutely could have affected my views and my enjoyment of it, but considering this novella is only 158 pages, it took me well over a week and a half to read it.

Tiny House, Big Love follows a similar concept to Desire in the Deep Blue Sea in terms of the characters are filming a TV show. Except this time, the characters are trying to find an appropriate ‘tiny house’ for one of them to buy to live in and start up a business. I don’t know if it’s more of a cultural difference here, but as someone who is from England I spent the first few chapters going ‘what the hell is a tiny house?’ and I ended up having to google it as I just could not picture what the hell they were looking for in this book.

I didn’t really get caught up in the romance, it was cute but it just didn’t feel authentic to me. I struggled to connect with the characters and in a romance you kind of need to like the characters to get behind the plot. I genuinely debated DNF’ing this one multiple times, but a part of me was also like it’s 150 pages… you can get through this.

I am still looking forward to trying Olivia Dade’s full length novels, but this one just wasn’t for me. If you’re looking for a cute romance, this one I feel like you could give it a miss.

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