Quinn's Review:

That was simply...perfect.

There was something pulling me towards this book ever since I bought the paperback. My instincts told me that this book was going to be different. Special.

Not reading much about it before I started, I assumed that this was going to be full of adventure, which it most definitely had, but I was pleasantly surprised with the enemies to loves component. Nothing gets me more excited than fantastic banter!! And Calla and Jonah have a LOT of tension between them.

This book broke me down. Lots of tears. It was quite poetic and beautiful. I don't want to let go of these people. I very rarely say, 'This book would make a great movie!' because let's face it, most romances don't translate as well as we hope into the big screen. But The Simple Wild would be perfect!

High recommend. Give it a shot.

I mean... it's K.A. Tucker... of course the book is amazing! There's never been a story written by this author that I haven't fallen head over heels in love with, and The Simple Wild was no different.

I am terribly sorry it took me so long to read it. If it hadn't been for medical issues with my eye and eventually needing a cornea transplant, I would have devoured this immediately. I'm grateful that I was able to recover enough to continue reading Tucker's amazing books!!

Thank for for the opportunity to read another great novel from this outstanding author!

KA Tucker's The Simple Wild delivers the kind of steamy, slow burn, steeped in emotion love story that I crave. Tucker always manages to create heroines that women can identify with in some way even if, at first glance, do not appear to have much in common.

One thing that really stood out while reading this book is the journey Calla takes both literally and figuratively. She travels from the safety of her life in Toronto to Alaska, where goes to visit her father who has become ill - a father who hasn't been in her life for some time. I admired the strength and courage to uproot herself and go to a totally new environment out of her comfort zone and rebuild her relationship.

There, she meets Jonah, a pilot who works for her father who is more than a little prickly. Over time, she and Jonah become friends and then lovers. I loved seeing them get to know each other and lean on each other when things get difficult. Jonah is equally resilient as Calla. He loves helping out the residents of the local villages in any way he can, bringing medical supplies and daily necessities to remote areas.

I was not expecting this book to emotionally gut me. The fact that it did so well is a testament to Tucker's ability to draw readers in. I cannot wait to read Wild at Heart!

This book was phenomenal! I absolutely loved the Alaska setting and found the characters and romance to be really well done. I look forward to reading more from this author!

Such a great book! I love love love KA Tucker and this book does not disappoint. I love the setting and learning more about this area as well. The MCs are super likeable and relateable, I can't wait to see how else their story unfolds.

Calla Fletcher was born in Alaska but her mother could not deal with living in the remote, cold area. She moved them back to Toronto when she was only two years old. Her husband and bush pilot, Wren Fletcher, refused to go with them, so eventually she divorced him and remarried. Calla used to talk to her father regularly until she was 14 and he didn't show up for her graduation after promising he would be there. Calla is now 26 and received a phone call from Alaska telling her that her father has cancer and this might be her last chance to see her father. She decides to go and see him after a discussion with her psychologist stepfather. When she arrives, she is met by one of her father's employees, Jonah, in a tiny plane that is too small to take her luggage. There is one disappointment after another, until Calla finally relaxes, gets to know her father and his friends and lets her guard down a bit.

The setting of Alaska is as much a character in this story as Calla, Wren and Jonah. I loved the descriptions of this remote area. Learning about the planes and how they are the lifeline for the various remote communities was very interesting. Calla had a lot of growing to do. She lived a pampered life in Toronto and she had to realize that there was more to life than lattes and fancy clothes. In fact, she didn't have her clothes for most of her time there. Getting reacquainted with her dad wasn't easy. It took some time, and gradually they came to understand each other. I liked the relationship she has with her mother and stepfather. She really relied on him for advice and guidance, which he didn't really give her, he just provided her a sounding board. Then there is Jonah. He is ill-tempered, sneaky and rude to Calla for a large portion of the book, but they also reach an understanding that eventually becomes even more. There are some great themes in this book. It touches on family, both blood and chosen, cancer, grief and forgiveness. Of course there is also a slow, burning romance. I really enjoyed this story. I found it very realistic and believable. With well-developed characters, even the secondary ones, a nice pace and great plot, I thoroughly enjoyed this story. I recommend it to those who enjoy reading about a different place, different lifestyle, families, healthy issues and romance.

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ALL THE YES!! Ah, a contemporary romance that is so much more. If you haven't read K.A. Tucker by now, I kinda suggest that you start immediately.


The beginning of the book, I was in Calla's corner, getting acquainted and feeling for her. Then she gets to Alaska and I start seeing her in a different light and was eye rolling quite a bit and then it all melds together and well.... I LOVE HER. I LOVE JONAH. I LOVE ALASKA! Haha. Ok that might be overdoing it, but it's also true.


Somehow Tucker brings us a love story with steam scenes that aren't over done. Heart tugging moments mixed with laugh out loud hilarity that brings some levity to what could otherwise be a very somber read. I loved this mix of reconnecting, learning a different culture, being outside your comfort zone and breaking down of walls. I got very emotional as I was reminded of my relationship with my own father. This center story was extremely precious and truly fun to read through.


So glad we chose this as our May #BuddyReadsToDieFor group read. Looking forward to jumping into the next book and continuing Calla's journey.

I love this cover and I really enjoyed the story. I loved the Alaska setting and the family dynamic. I also really enjoyed the romance in this story. This was one of my favorites by K. A. Tucker and I can't wait to read the next one. This is a great book to read if you enjoy New Adult titles.

I’m not a romance reader at all but this one blew me away. It was well-written, intense, and pulled me into the story. I was crying by the end. 5/5

I thought this book would be more of a romance than it ended up being, but I still really liked it. It's more of a story of a woman reconnecting with her estranged father and learning about life in the Alaska wilderness. I liked the main characters (though it did take me a while to like them), but all the minor characters were great, too.

If you don’t already suffer from wanderlust (like I do), do you want to know how to get it? Read this book. Do you want to know how to love KA Tucker more than you already do, and if you don’t already, do you need a place to start? Read this book. Do you want to fall in love, in laughter, in sadness, in happily ever after? DO YOU GET MY POINT YET?!!!

This book is so much more than just a contemporary romance novel. The romance is amazing, but there was just so much more in this for me. The lives of all the characters, the environment, the feeling of healing, the breath of fresh air… I feel like my thoughts are just so jumbled, because even though I’m writing this roughly 2 weeks from the time I finished reading it, I just still feel so excited to gush about it, and my love for it is this overflowing fountain… I think I miss it already. Can I do more than 5 stars? Okay. Focus…..

It was such a relief that Calla was likable. Due to the way she was raised and her home life, she had the potential to be so obnoxious. And while she was high maintenance and superficial at times, it wasn’t anything that made me dislike her. She was more reasonable than I anticipated. And funny! OH and JONAH. Freaking SWOON.

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Hard headed, stubborn, funny, beautiful, caring, manly, strong, life saving, hero Jonah. There are more adjectives for him, I’m sure, but you’ll get sick of me if I keep going. Every time he wasn’t on the page, I missed him. Sigh. I love him. He might be my new fave of Tuckers men. I love the witty back and forth with him and Calla, and the progression of things with them was so much fun. Getting to know all the characters was wonderful! I loved the whole family thing happening in Alaska. It was easy to love them all, they felt like people I want to know, in a place I want to be. I haven’t really read many current, contemporary romance books that made me wish I could live in their world, but this felt like the home I wish I had. Removed from big cities, everyone helping each other day to day, being such an important part of the lives and culture and the wilderness. Fernweh for a fictional place. I adored every second of it.

And I cried. But it felt good, in a way, to cry for this. Like, it felt like relief, like releasing a breath you didn’t realize you had been holding (wow I can’t believe I just got to use that line in real life and it actually felt like the right explanation for what I was feeling!). We never lingered too long on the hard times, just enough to allow you to feel them and then to heal easily. This was emotional on a much deeper level than just romance. Not to mention, the beauty of figuring out who you are and what kind of person you can become – seeing the growth in Calla – filled my heart. Everything about this book filled my heart. Far beyond 5 stars.

I LOVE THIS BOOK. I don’t think I can be more clear. Tucker has been one of my favorite authors for a long time now, so I assumed I would enjoy this, but I didn’t expect it to shoot to the top of my fave Tucker books list. Do yourself a favor and read this book! I’m going to try to stop gushing over this.

NOW, PLEASE FEAST YOUR EYES ON SOME OF MY FAVORITE IMAGES FROM GOOGLE THAT I FOUND WHILE OBSESSING OVER NEEDING TO GO TO ALASKA ASAP!

Ahhh I don't even know where to start. I haven't read a lot of K.A. Tucker's books, just because there's so many books, so little time but HOLYYY shit, am I wrecked after reading this book. It legit made me look up every book Tucker has ever written so that I could immediately read all the words. I could kick myself for only just now becoming obsessed.



I feel so many things after reading this story. My thoughts and emotions are a mess and this is after taking a day to reflect. The way Tucker describes Alaska so amazingly makes me want to seriously plan a trip. It is so beautifully and perfectly depicted that I felt like I was there.



Calla, our heroine, was a city girl traveling to spend time getting to know her dad, who was absent for most of her life, in Alaska. I have to be honest that Calla took some time to grow on me. I did not love her right away but with her personal growth and development throughout the book, I really came to love her a lot. Jonah, our hero is a pilot at her dad's company. I felt their romance was completely believable because it wasn't artificially sweet. It was a slow burn which is completely refreshing.



I am rating this book with 5 starts because it was soooooo freaking good. I recommend it for anyone and everyone.

Some books plant themselves in your heart from the very first page, the unexpected beauty of them taking your breath away time and time again, and this book owned my heart from the get-go. An incredibly moving, exquisitely written tale of a young woman traveling to Alaska to reconnect with her estranged father, only to find true love there, too—there are so many aspects of this stellar story that moved me deeply, and it didn’t take long for me to KNOW this would become one of my ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE BOOKS EVER.

This book was so lovely! The characters were flawed but fit together. I am a huge fan of this author and will be recommending this book to our audience!

After a MAJOR two year reading slump that totally destroyed by love of reading, The Simple Wild brought me back to life. I read the whole book in 24 hours and couldn’t put it down. I loved the writing, the setting was amazing, and the characters were so well written. K.A. Tucker has become my reading saving grace the past two years and I can always count on her books renewing my love of reading.

KA Tucker always knows the way to someone heart within her writing. She brings characters to life like no other and the storyline always strikes something within you. You go through everything with those characters and feel what they are feeling.

The physical landscape is beautiful in this novel. I really appreciate how the author portrays the people of Calla's birth state, which is almost a world apart from the mainland. But the emotional landscape is breathtaking. The two paired together with vivid characters and a tentative, budding father/daughter relationship is what makes this novel so successful in what it sets out to do.

I devoured this book. It was, in classic KA style, unputdownable. It was quite a bit more emotional than I thought it would be, but in such a powerful and wonderful way. I loved all the different facets, the way each character was so pertinent to the story, and how I still feel as though I know this bunch on a very personal level. Another fantastic book by KA Tucker!

Tucker has outdone herself. I do believe The Simple Wild has just taken the top spot when it comes to all I’ve read from this talented writer (or at least given the others a good shake-up).

I was captivated even from the prologue, when two year old Calla is taken away from her father by a mother who can no longer tolerate the reality of rural life in the Alaskan wild. More than two decades pass before Calla returns. Now twenty-six, she is very much a city girl but her life in Toronto is also at a crossroads. Receiving a call that her father has terminal diagnosis, Calla packs a bag (actually many bags) and returns to Alaska. Filled with questions about her parent’s past, uncertainty about a father she barely knows, and years of hurt over his absence in her life, Calla is unprepared for what she finds. Not only the harsh reality of life in Alaska, but also her taciturn father and Jonah, the gruff and grouchy pilot who instantly pegs her as high-maintenance, pampered and shallow.

Calla starts off as the classic fish out of water when she arrives in the fictional town of Bangor. Bemoaning her missing luggage, teetering through the mud in high heels, and annoyed without her morning latte with soy milk, she doesn’t exactly fit in. But as Calla spends time with her father, and with Jonah, she sees a different side of life in Alaska - the beauty of the land, the tenacity of the people, and a way of life that is unlike anything she has known.

I loved the evolution of Calla’s character over the course of the novel. From arriving with little more than a sense of duty and a desire to quickly return to her life, to slowly getting to know the father she barely knew and understanding the choices he’d made, Calla shows real growth and questions what she truly wants for herself. It was obvious she wouldn’t leave Alaska the same person as when she arrived. I felt her frustration as she tried to get to know her father. Watching the two of them tiptoe around each other and seeing the small, tentative steps they took towards one another touched my heart.

Jonah and Calla appeared to be total opposites. With a strong sense of commitment to his job and the people it impacted, Jonah was hard-working, adventurous and a risk-taker. He was also close to Calla’s father and understood him in ways that Calla didn’t. He had no problem putting Calla in her place at every opportunity and their bickering and banter was priceless. As the animosity turned to attraction and then a relationship, it seemed inevitable that history would repeat itself and Calla would follow in her mother’s footsteps. I loved the way their relationship unfolded. I’m not a fan of the enemies-to-lovers trope but this didn’t feel like a trope at all. Instead it felt utterly realistic. Calla, with her preconceived notions of who and what she would find in Alaska; and Jonah with his suspicion of Calla and disapproval of her relationship with her father. The long thaw between them helped to make the eventual turn in their relationship feel completely believable.

Tucker made rural Alaska come alive and the setting felt as if were another character in the story. The imagery is stunning and brought every scene to life, making it easy to fully immerse myself in the story.

Powerful and emotional, this is a tale of coming to terms with the past, recognizing our parents as flawed individuals, acceptance and forgiveness, and having the courage to embrace a future that is unlike anything you imagined for yourself. At times so raw and real that it made my heart ache, The Simple Wild pulled me in from the very start and kept me completely invested in these characters and their lives through every turn of the page. One of my top reads of 2018.