Say you still love me is the perfect end of summer read. The story weaves back and forth between a summer when Piper is 16 and again 13 years later. I thought the story was well mixed between the two time lines. It also has the summer romance feel and suprises throughout.

This novel was a a bit different from past novels written by K.A. Tucker but in a good way. Her books are diverse from each other in a way that keeps her writing from becoming boring or repetitive. I loved it as much as her past series and standalones. I didn't see any of the surprises or twists coming. I love when a book can suprise me like this. I also loved the fast pace of the story and I found it hard to put down. It has a great story line and has a relatable nostalgic feel about first loves and ghosts of past loves.

This is a great starter book if your new to K.A. Tucker's books or already a fan. I highly recommend end it for light romance lovers.

Complimentary copy provided by publisher and netgalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.

Say You Still Love Me by K.A. Tucker is a second chance romance between two camp sweethearts who re-connect after 13 years later. Piper Calloway has lived a privileged life where she wanted for nothing but the approval of her father for the work she does for the family company. She met Kyle Miller while counselors at Camp Wawa and fall head over heels for each other over a summer. Life gets in the way, and they re-connect years later but have things changed too much to pick up where they off.

After reading The Simple Wild I was so excited for another book by K.A. Tucker because her writing is just beautiful. Unfortunately, this book did not meet the mark. Piper and Kyle were characters that I just didn't feel like I get to know. There were superficial things you learned about them but when push came to shove they just didn't click for me. Their romance felt forced in a way that second chance romances can.

The formatting of this book is one of my least favorites where the timeline jumped between chapters back and forth. The big lead up to the conflict ended up being something that could be guessed to a certain extent and just felt forced.

That would be my overall description of feelings about this book forced in a way that just lead me to be disappointed after such high hopes.

Say You Still Love Me wasn’t a bad read. It is a second chance romance. Half of the book is set in the past. The main character are teenage camp counselors. So you get half YA and half adult set in the present day. YA is something I’m not over interested in reading anymore. I read a lot of it when I was around that age. The YA part of this book I did enjoy for the most part. I just wish we got more time in the present than the past. It still was a sweet read that kept me entertained. I like K.A. Tucker’s writing. I look forward to reading more of her books.


I voluntarily read an early copy.

How could anyone not love a good second chance romance action?! Throw in K.A. Tucker’s captivating writing style and you have your self a book you’ll read in one sitting! I loved the lightness of this book. The fun summer camp settings made for the perfect curl up by the lake house read. There were a few steamy scenes but overall I felt the plot was somewhat of a young adult novel. I appreciated the boss babe main character Piper (in her adult life), way to go girl power! Thank you NetGalley, K.A. Tucker, and Atria books for the opportunity to review this title.

I feel a slight amount of disappointment in this book. While it is a sweet story of first love and second chances, I didn't feel the same immediate pull to the story as I did with The Simple Wild. I loved that book so much, and unfortunately, and possibly unfairly, I went into Say You Still Love Me with a great deal of expectation.

I didn't connect with the main character, Piper. This took me out of the story a bit. I do think this is a great late-summer romantic read. It goes back in time to when the main characters, Piper and Kyle, first meet as camp counselors at a summer camp. And then it alternates between the present and the past. Can Piper and Kyle rekindle their summer romance? Is that first love still as powerful 13 years later?

Say You Still Love Me is a cute story of first love and second chances. It's the kind of story that is a bittersweet escape from the world and I believe that is a necessary thing in our society today. I always enjoy that K. A. Tucker features empowering female characters. All in all, this is a fine edition to the contemporary romance genre.

Don't be fooled by this romance-filled synopsis between the rich CEO and the poor guy, let alone get carried away by this nostalgic cover full of love. Say You Still Love Me is so much more than that and if it has the signature of K.A. Tucker...OMG.. All the fans should already be preparing for an impactful and surprising plot twist when least expected.

Piper is a powerful woman who struggles every day to impose herself in the sexist business world. Following in her father's footsteps, she prepares herself to one day take over the company he founded that has become one of the most prosperous and highly regarded in the United States. While battling against a sneaky enemy, she sees again her great lo of the past and finds that she was not emotionally prepared to confront the guy who once broke her heart to pieces.

Kyle, in the past, was a boy who loved to break the rules and comes from an unconventional family with a foot in the criminal world. Trying to make a living without getting carried away by the bad blood that runs through his veins, he tries to create his own path. What he didn't expect was that as he meets the sweet and witty Piper, his world would once again turn upside down.

Highlight to Piper's friends, the crazy Zen Ashley, and the controlling and serious Crista who bring a lot of dynamics and funny moments to the plot.

With a narrative that sucked me in and held me captive till the end, K.A. Tucker brings a tension-filled storyline alternating present and past so the reader can understand what happened in Piper and Kyle's life. A story about true love, forgiveness, new chances, strength and struggle with a super beautiful heartbreaking ending.

I really liked how she built the story especially the moments of the past, I was just a little frustrated with Kyle's behavior in the present and just didn't understand Piper's obsession with him, but when the real point of conflict comes I was groundless and I understand perfectly the guy's reluctance. I just waited for more dialogue between them so that everything could be resolved, I thought the main scene of reconciliation was a little too fast but that does not spoil the reading.

I want to start off by saying I’ve read a number of KA Tucker’s books over the past year and really enjoyed them. I would recommend The Simple Wild, He Will Be My Ruin or Until It Fades. Knowing how much I enjoyed all of them - I came to Say You Still Love Me with high hopes.

Unfortunately - I found the main character Piper so unlikable right from the start that I wasn’t able to finish this book. I read 35% to give it a chance and not feel like I gave up too early - but at this point I am accepting it isn’t for me. If you want more details (with some spoilers) please check out my Goodreads review.

Thank you very much to Netgalley and the publisher for the advance review copy in exchange for my honest review.

I’ve heard great things about K.A. Tucker’s books so I was really excited to get a chance to review an early copy of her newest book. The premise of this romance sounded so cute. I love the whole high school romance being reignited years later. Piper was a really strong female character in a business world typically dominated by men which of course meant that she had to deal with a few assholes who didn’t take her seriously. I wanted to punch Tripp square in the jaw for the way he acted around her. I loved Pipers friends from camp, Ashley and Christa. It’s so great that they were able to stay such good friends over the years. And Kyle was the perfect first true love. The book is written in alternating chapters between the past when Piper was 16 working as a camp counselor and the present when she is 29 and in the process of taking over her dad’s multibillion-dollar real estate development firm. I’m usually not that into that kind of story layout with the back and forth but I think it really worked well with this book. If you’re looking for a swoony romance, I suggest checking this book out when it releases on August 6th. I will definitely be reading more of K.A. Tucker’s books in the future.

Piper Calloway works as her father’s right hand as an executive in his real estate development firm. Born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she has fought for the approval of her father and the other executives in a mostly male world. When she see’s her girlhood crush, Kyle, working at the front desk of her building as a security guard all of her life’s ambitions get pushed aside and memories of her first love takes over. Will this be her second chance at love?

I have enjoyed K.A. Tucker’s books in the past and while Say You Still Love Me isn’t my favorite of hers it’s still an interesting and kind of different style of romance. Piper and Kyle’s story was told through a series of flashbacks to when they fell in love while camp counselor’s over a summer when they were teenagers. The innocence and fun of that story contrasted well with the more adult version of their re-connection. The minor problem for me was that I was much more interested in them when they were teenage camp counselors than I was with them as adults.

Piper’s mom wanted her to have the experience she did as a “normal” girl at camp. Normal meaning middle class I guess. Rather than being a fish out of water because of her moneyed background, Piper actually fit right in, made friends and caught the eye of the rather rebellious and tattooed teenage Kyle. While her personality was pretty consistent from teen Piper to adult Piper, Kyle did a 180º. He was flirtatious, fun and kind of a mystery as a teenager, but adult security guard Kyle? Not as much fun….

I did enjoy the emotional punch of their re-connection but didn’t buy into a fantasy romance with a high powered executive woman and a building security guard. Well, at least a security guard that wasn’t part of an ex elite military squad who would swoop in and rescue his damsel in distress. This just wasn’t that type of romance. So, it became a little vanilla for me. Huh. I’m a little surprised, but I have to go with that statement.

Since this was both a YA Contemporary and an adult Contemporary Romance built into one book, I’m going to give it two scores. The YA Contemporary novel gets a 4.5 and the Contemporary romance a 3.5, which rounds this one out to a four. A good solid book, but didn’t hit it out of the park for me.

I received a free copy of this ARC through NetGalley for my honest review and it was honest!

4.5 Stars!

Young summer love... this brought brought me back to high school and young innocent love where nothing else mattered but your good friends, fun, and the love from that one special guy.

Piper and Kyle met at camp... complete opposites - she is from a very wealthy family and knows what her future holds while Kyle has one brother he is close with his other brothers are criminals and he doesn’t have great role model parents.

But that first day at camp... an instant connection attraction and bond starts from a dare from a game of truth and lies and grows to so much more.

Fast forward 13 years and Kyle and piper haven’t seen each other in so long because he disappeared. But they never forgot one another so when they are put back in each other’s lives, do they try and pick up where they left off, did she build him up to be this great boyfriend and their past lies in the past, or have they grown and changed and are still meant to be together despite the obstacles?

I loved piper who stayed true to herself...never let money change her and grew to be this strong independent smart businesswoman. Even more I loved Kyle...his past could have dictated how he would turn out to be but he took care to be a better person, to help his brother escape who they could have been and despite things he hid and lies he told, he did it for the best of reasons...because of love.

I wasn’t sure how this book would go but the sexual tension, the love, the emotions were complete perfection. I’ve struggled with books of late because I haven’t found many I have connected with lately but I did with this one. I loved it so much!!

Piper never thought that working at a summer camp at 16 would change her life as much as it did. Now 13 years later, she is transported back to that one summer when her first love starts working in her building. 

I loved EVERY. SINGLE. THING. about this book. Camp storyline? Second chance romance? I'M SOLD!

You see so much character progression between teenage Piper and business Piper. Here was a strong girl finally standing up to the one person in her life whose opinions she values the most. Piper was such a kickass chick who didn't let the gross older men at her office push her around, even when they went around her back. Finding such a strong female main character in a contemporary is always a huge plus because sometimes I find them to be too few and far between. 

Earlier this month I tried to read another K.A. Tucker that I had to DNF, so I was a little nervous going into this ARC. I had nothing to worry about because this book was really wonderful. It was just what I wanted: steamy but not too steamy, not only a great love interest, but great friendships, family drama. I think this may find its way onto my favorites list for the year. 

ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Cliche: Girl comes from an affluent family. Boy comes from the wrong side of the tracks. Her parents don’t approve. They get a second chance. I don’t care how typical this storyline is: SIGN ME UP. What I loved about this book is that the main character is such a BOSS and the relationship between the two main characters seemed authentic. The author was able to strike the perfect balance of both of these things. This book also alternated between past and present which I really liked because you got to see how the characters evolved. Add this one to your Summer TBR if you don’t mind a cliche love story based on second chances.

Say You Still Love Me is a contemporary second-chance romance. 29 year old Piper Calloway is a senior VP at her father's real estate development firm. While leaving the office one day, she thinks she sees a blast from her past--thirteen years ago. She thinks it was Kyle, a boy who broke her heart one summer while they were both at camp. The story shifts to the past when Piper is at camp and meets her friends and Kyle.
I Love K.A. Tucker. She is an auto read author for me. I was so excited to read and review this book, but it was not my favorite of hers. Part of the problem falls on me. I don't usually like stories that go back and forth from present to past. I can handle some of the past, but I prefer to be in the HERE and NOW part of the story--and there was A LOT of the past in this story. I would say too much. I want to know what is going to happen with Kyle and Piper in the present. I get that I need to understand their backstory to see where they are now, but I felt like I was on summer camp overload. Plus, they really didn't interact too much in the present until quite a bit into the book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

After reading The Simple Wild earlier this year, I was definitely intrigued to tackle a second-chance romance by the same author. We get echoes of a similar plotline, with a rich girl and a boy from a completely different world with a fraught family relationship. It is told in alternating chapters of the current day and the summer the couple was initially involved at summer camp. I went back and forth a little about whether I was enjoying myself, and I think that could have just been some readathon burnout hitting me. I ultimately ended up enjoying this one, but not as much as The Simple Wild. 4 stars!

Ever since I saw the blurb for this book a couple months ago, I’d been absolutely dying to get my hands on this book. So when I was kindly gifted a copy of this book from the publishers, I was above and beyond overjoyed. The hype surrounding this book was in no way downplayed, it was everything and more that I could have asked from a second chance romance.

This book tells its story from two different time periods; then and now, then being when Kyle and Piper were still adolescents at Camp Wawa working as counselors for the summer and now being the current time period where Kyle and Piper reconnect. As the book progresses we find out just why Kyle cut off all contact with Piper when they were “surprisingly” fired from the camp, and just why it took him so long to come back into her life. Piper, now a CEO in training to take over her fathers business will have to decide whether or not it’s worth it to take the plunge into a relationship with Kyle, or like her father, chose work over family.

This book is so filled with a slow burn type love story that with every turn of the page you just want to know whether or not these two characters will end up getting together already’

I am so torn with this book! I wouldn't say this is a BAD book by any means. In fact, I think for a lot of people it would be a really good book. Unfortunately for me, I didn't connect with the love interest, Eric and the main character Piper when she was 16. This made me really dislike the flashback chapters. I did enjoy the setting, though. I also really liked the present day chapters. I loved Piper's friendship with Ashley and Christa. Overall, this is a good book, just not entirely the one for me. One silly thing that really bothered me was when one of the characters said in a chapter from 2006 that she had met Harry Styles two years earlier. Harry Styles was 10 in 2004 and certainly not famous! I'm being nit picky, but that really did irk me.

Say You Still Love me was my first KA Tucker novel – and if it’s any indication of how much I loved this book, I’m immediately reading The Simple Wild now because I can’t get enough. I was so pleasantly surprised!! Five stars for this one!

Piper Calloway is a high powered VP at her dad’s real estate development company, and she has NO love life. Work keeps her busy enough. Her most recent (and failed) relationship was with another person at the same company and she broke off her engagement recently. Piper is floored when the love of her life from summer camp years ago walks into her office building as the new security guard. (The book switches back and forth between summer camp as a kid and present day). Her life turns upside down immediately.

I loved Piper’s character, and really appreciate seeing high powered women in starring roles. Her relationship with Kyle Miller is nostalgic, familiar and real. Real world issues tore them apart years ago, but can they survive those issues again as adults?

I thought this was a really cute story. You have the young love of Piper and Kyle, meeting at summer camp when something happens to pull them apart. he story jumps from THEN to NOW exposing some of their backstory. Then Kyle shows up at Piper's office as the new security guard.

Piper struggles with taking over the family business when employees don't take her seriously. A project is falling apart thanks to one guy in particular. So her plate is full, especially with an ex-fiance who also works there. However, when Kyle shows up she can't help but be drawn to him, you never really get over your first love. But can they make it in this new reality?

Piper Calloway is privileged, and she knows it. So when she has to spend her summer working at a “rustic” summer camp, she’s not exactly excited, but she appreciates what her parents are trying to do. Camp Wawa introduces her to friendship, first love, and tragedy. From her bond with troubled Kyle, to her friendship with Ashley, the summer is one that proves pivotal. Turner uses the duel timeline to her advantage, giving the reader hardworking, single adult Piper, and naive, privileged young Piper, connecting Piper A to Piper B in a nostalgic, coming of age manner. You’ll relive all your firsts and wish you’d been to summer camp yourself. Say You Still Love Me is a cute second chance love story, and if you’re a sucker for summer camps the way I am, I’d recommend it.

WOW, ok... where do I start?

First I just need to point out that this is my first K.A. Tucker book, which I am beginning to see is a big crime. I cannot believe I've put off reading her books for so long, but after being completely blown away with this one, it will definitely NOT be the last one I read.

Secondly, it has been a very long time since I've a book I have found so incredibly hard to put down. Sure, I've read a bunch of books this year that have become favorites, but very rarely did they enrapture me as much as this one did from the very beginning.

Thirdly, I ugly cried. Multiple times. That's how invested I was in these character's lives: and not just their romance, but in every single aspect of their lives. I very rarely cry reading books, and when I do, the tears are normally due to a series I already love for a while and already formed an old attachment to the characters. Ugly crying to the point of having to put down the book with a standalone? With me, this is almost unheard of.

I want to first talk about the characters. Piper, in many ways and for many reasons that I wont bore whoever is reading this review with, felt like was written for me. I not only related to her in so many levels, but I also learned so much from her kindness and determination. I enjoyed seeing a character that, even though has always had everything handed to her in a silver platter, never fails to be kind and considerate to others. She was humble and down to earth, and never felt entitled to her position at her father's firm (which she obviously very well could), instead, she worked hard for it everyday: to not only earn the respect of her father, but to earn the respect of the workers as well.

Her relationship with Kyle enraptured me from the very first time they interacted. I felt their chemistry as soon as they started talking, and found myself smiling and rooting for them like a fool very early on. They made me laugh so hard with the "2 lies and 1 truth" game, and from then on I was thoroughly invested in their romance.

I loved having past/present chapters. I am a big second chance fan, and I always feel like the books with these chapters make me care so much more for the couple's past/story. And I loved reading about Piper and Kyle's relationship when they were teens and when they were older. I loved the contrast of both of those - seeing how they grew, seeing them face their fears and the obstacles thrown their way - and there's always something so magical about seeing two past lovers reconnect and having held on to each other and the feelings they had throughout all the years that they were separate. This is why I feel like second chance is so magical: no matter what they go through, all of the, most of the times, ugly things their past threw at them, they still find a way to overcome those things so that they can be together again - because to them, no past is bigger than what they feel for one another. I just love reading these types of stories so much, and this one delivered on everything that I love the most about second chance.

I also loved the friendships. I'm always looking for a nice side friendship in romance, specially between girls, and I loved reading about the bond Piper, Ashley and Christa created throughout the years.


My one tiny issue is Kyle keeping things from Piper for most of the story, and only deciding to tell her when he knew he was going to be discovered anyways. But I did understand his motivations, even though I wish he could've just outright told her on his own.

This was my first K. A. Tucker book, but it probably won't be my last. This made me smile, laugh and bawl like a baby, and filled my heart with so much joy from beginning to end. It might've made me a little bit sad that I never was a counselor at a summer camp at sixteen and had a fling with a hot guy with a lip piercing, lol!

I have no doubt in my mind that once 2019 comes to a close, this will still be one of my favorite books of the year.