As always, K.A. Tucker writes in such a way that keeps me hooked beginning to end. Say You Still Love Me is her newest Contemporary Romance novel that still has me reeling!

The novel goes back and forth between then and now highlighting the changes in Piper Calloway's life. Then, 16 years old working as a camp counsellor at Camp Wawa, and now, 29 years old running her father's multi billion dollar company.

She's left most of her past in the past, including Kyle, but she becomes overwhelmed when he's decided to show up in the present. There are so many questions left unanswered and so much mystery as to why he disappeared.

I loved the fact that the author went back and forth between past and present, it made things much more interesting and kept me hooked throughout. It made me feel completely nostalgic about my own teen years and I was seriously giddy for the characters in the book.

This book was so much fun to read, it reminded me of summer and being young again! One thing I appreciate about the author's writing is that she can switch genres effortlessly making each book completely different but equally enjoyable to read.

While I'm not a huge fan of books that go back and forth between past and present day, this one was entirely enjoyable. K. A. Tucker simply has a way with words and turns them into such deep characters and wonderful stories.

In Say You Still Love Me, Piper and Kyle meet as camp counselors one summer. They come from very different worlds and part on less-than-grrat terms. When they run into each other 13 years later, neither is sure of it's fate ... or torture.

Such a good read! I love Tucker's books and this is another winner.

Say You Still Love Me is a second chance romance and is told in alternating timelines between 2006 and 2019. Piper Calloway is a senior VP at her dad's very successful company and is slated to take over when her father retires. Piper struggles to be taken seriously in this male-dominated workforce and while I love that premise, I was a little disappointed with the follow through.

In a time when women's issues are so prevalent in the media, I thought it was wonderful to see Piper as a woman with a high powered career but Piper's character came off as a little entitled and whiny...which took away the ability for her to be a likeable character. It was clear in the storyline that she only had that position because of her father, not because of earning it herself which just rubbed me the wrong way. It had the opportuntinty to show a woman facing adversity and who through hard work and perseverance got to where she was today and instead it became a lot less inspiring.

As far as the romance, Piper is reunited with her young summer love when Kyle starts working as a security guard at her father's company. I loved the idea but it just didn't feel believable to me because it all felt very formulaic. I often wondered what she and Kyle had in common besides their previous "teenage infatuation". A lot of just seemed contrived and not realistic...but I think I just wasn't the right audience for this one.

I can clearly see why many readers love K.A. Tucker's writing because she truly is gifted at witty dialogue and this was certainly easy and engaging to read. Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for an advanced copy of this book.

Kyle and Piper met one summer as camp counselors. Something major happens while they are at camp and Piper always wonders why she never heard from Kyle after their summer romance. Thirteen years later, Piper runs into Kyle, who is now working in her building. She can't help wondering why he is there and if it means anything. This story alternates from the present to the past to help show what happened to them and why it was so surprising to Piper. Piper feels like Kyle is hiding something very crucial from her, but she can't figure it out.

I won't give anything else away, because this story takes you through a great series of events. K.A. Tucker does an amazing job of getting you to remember those feelings of being a teenager and first loves. She also makes you really feel the feelings of the characters, and I found myself feeling what they were going through. Not many authors can really dig deep to get you to feel all of those emotions, but Tucker can. Every book of hers gets better and better, and this one is no exception. I found myself returning to my favorite scenes after I finished this book. You don't want to miss out on this one!

Kyle was the boy that Piper never forgot from her short time as a summer camp counselor. He was her first love, and then he just disappeared out of her life. Now he’s resurfaced, a security guard in her father’s building, and he acts like he doesn’t even know her. Why did he vanish from her life then, and why is he back now?
This was the first of KA Tucker’s books that I’ve read. While I enjoyed it, there was one main thing that kept me from loving it:
I cannot stand the billionaire trope in romance novels. At least in this one SHE was the wealthy one, not him, but still. Why does someone have to be filthy rich in an attempt to make romance more appealing? (And good lord how many billionaires are out there - because if I’m to believe these books, all I have to do is be awkward or quirky or blasé about them and they’ll knock down my door.)
Also, a minor detail, and as this is an ARC I’m sure it’ll be remedied, but a side character was alternately referred to as Krista and Christa.
Now for the parts I enjoyed - the friendships, both in the past and present; the flashbacks to summer camp; that Piper was in a strong position of power for her career, and especially that her dad respected her as such. I liked that the romance was there but not gratuitous or ridiculous in its description.
Overall, this was a fun, light summer romance.

I initially struggle in general with past/present alternating chapters each with a continuous storyline. They have to be done right in which I have to be invested in both time periods in order to enjoy the story. I think this book is a huge slow burn, and I kind of struggled with getting to the end, which I started to skim some. I also wasn't connecting with Piper and Kyle as a couple from both time periods. Some parts of this book were sad, but overall I think the reader needs to be in the right mood to read this book.

I received this book at my request and have voluntarily left this unbiased review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Say You Still Love Me is a wonderful second chance romance. I love how the female lead is a powerful woman in the present, but found myself loving her more in the past when she fell in love with a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. This book is told in both perspectives; past and present, and really works for their love story. While I personally enjoyed the past the most, I did love seeing how the two came together in the future despite some secrets that could have kept them apart.

K.A. Tucker is a wonderful writer and I am always excited for her next novel. This is a wonderful book and I know is going to be a hit with romances readers this summer. I very much recommend it.

I have absolutely loved some of K. A. Tucker's books and Say You Still Love Me sounded perfect for me: a mash-up of Dirty Dancing (girl at summer camp defies rich father to romance a blue collar guy) and The Parent Trap (camp hijinks and divorced parents). The storyline switched between a summer camp romance in the past and a second chance at love story in the present. Points for mashing up two great romance scenarios!

In the past, Piper is a rich girl who falls for a wrong side of the tracks guy. In the present, she has a an overbearing rich father, an absent shopaholic mother, a vain, douchey ex, and a preppy, golf-obsessed colleague who she thinks is out to make her look bad at work. On the positive side, she also has her two BFFs from camp days who live in the huge apartment her father gave her, a donut-loving security guard. But then that gorgeous wrong-side-of-the-tracks former boyfriend pops up out of nowhere.

I’m crazy about second chance at love stories so I think my main obstacle to loving this was Piper. In the present day, she’s pretty annoyingly perfect. She was constantly describing what she was wearing and damn, did she think she looked good. She thought a lot about how her dresses were tight in a way that flattered her toned arms and slender curves. What made it worse was that Piper had a history of being pretty unkind when evaluating other women. She literally says that one of her best friends is “afflicted” with a “thick layer of brown freckles” (huh?) and the other is “stocky” but makes the best of it (yikes!)

I’m also all for a rich girl/boy from the wrong side of the tracks story and I did like Kyle. But since Piper got much less relatable as she got older, that made it hard for me to root for these two or see them as an ideal match.

I can see that others on my Goodreads timeline have loved this, so you should definitely make up your own mind. I remain a fan of K.A.T. but I’m going to go read Burying Water #2 as I think I never got to that one!

one of my favorite KA Tucker novels. Impecable writing as always , filled with depth and emotion. A must read.

"You'll make friends for life here. People you can call up twenty years from now, for anything, and they'll be there for you. I promise you, you won't forget these days, ever."


I loved this tender, second-chance romance!

With 'Say You Still Love Me' KA Tucker brought back all of the memories I had of going to camp when I was young. Although I had a slightly different experience, I still crushed hard on a few boys.

Sixteen-year-old Piper Calloway grew up in a wealthy home and has had everything given to her that she could ever want. Except for this summer. Rather than going to Europe with her friends, her mother insists Piper work as a camp counselor at the same camp she worked at when she was young. She wants Piper to experience camp without luxuries, and experience the 'normal' side of life and 'normal' people. She's trying to teach her a life lesson; to be appreciative for all that her family has while staying grounded. What her mother and father didn't count on was that Piper would fall in love with a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Kyle Miller is the popular 'bad boy'. He's the one all the girls want but are afraid to go after. Except for Piper. When she sees Kyle, suddenly, the idea of a 'normal' camp doesn't seem too bad. They hit it off immediately. Kyle and Piper enjoy all the experiences camp has to offer during the day while falling in love with each other at night. Their camp experience doesn't end on a good note, however. The two leave in wake of a tragedy and with promises to not only stay in touch but to see each other as often as they can.

That was then.

Now, Piper is 29-years-old and in line to take over her father's business. She's highly successful and wealthy in her own right. She's a woman with power and one who the men who have worked for her father for years, aren't too keen on. They don't want a young, inexperienced, entitled female to become their boss, it reeks of nepotism, right? Surely a young female can't handle running a company! To say navigating the "good ole old boys club" is difficult, is an understatement. When Piper is positive things can't get any more maddening, she discovers the boy she once loved is now a man working security at her building.

She hasn't seen or heard from Kyle since the two left camp. Even though she's not sure she wants the answers, questions begin swirling in her head, "Why is he here?", "Where has he been?", "Why didn't Kyle answer or return any of her calls?".

I loved the intensity of their relationship, both past, and present. Tucker captured the feelings of teenage love, perfectly!

K.A. Tucker never disappoints. She is an automatic one-click for me. I loved how the author laid out this story with chapters from their past, and then chapters with the present, rather than flashbacks throughout the book.

Piper Calloway comes from money, but not all the people she met while spending a summer as a camp counselor did. It only took one glimpse of Kyle and she knew she was a goner. Kyle is not the "type" of guy she is supposed to be with. They are from different lifestyles, different statures in society, or say that is her father's opinion, not Piper's.

Things between Piper and Kyle begin to develop and I loved the two of them together. Kyle may have looked the part of a bad-boy, but he was anything but. The two of them loved spending time together and would sneak off as much as possible to be with each other. But when a tragic incident occurs, things change for the entire group at camp.

Her father didn't approve of her relationship with Kyle, and he made sure to do everything in his power to stop it, even if it meant lying to his daughter.

Years pass and Piper never truly got over her first love, so when she thinks she sees him in the lobby of her building, her heart begins to beat a little faster. Does Kyle remember her? Did their summer together mean as much to Kyle as it did to Piper? Will their different lifestyles keep them apart again? Does money really matter? Can two different people who come from two differently 'types' of life make it work? Are their too many obstacles standing in their way? Will her father continue to meddle in Piper's life, and do whatever he can to keep Kyle from her?

When secrets are revealed, will Piper be able to forgive those that hurt her? Be sure to one-click Say You Still Love Me by K.A. Tucker.

Say You Still Love Me follows Piper Calloway, a powerful corporate woman with the world at her fingertips during present day, and thirteen years prior when she meets her first love Kyle at Camp Wawa. At 29 after a big promotion at her father's multi-billion dollar real estate development company, Piper discovers her first love, Kyle (who broke her heart) is now the security guard at her building.

What Worked for Me:
I loved how powerful and strong Piper was, even with insecurities relating to Kyle. I enjoyed reading about her success, how she handled difficult men in her very male-dominated industry, and stood up for herself. I also really enjoyed the alternating timelines and the nostalgia of camp and first love.

What I Didn't Love:
My only complaint about this story is that the majority of the detailed "steamy" scenes are in the past when Piper and Kyle were in high school. I understand the concept of setting the stage for their romance, but I think the descriptions could have been a little more mild when discussing that time, and the steaminess could have been utilized better in present day, not describing teenagers.

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Well that was just lovely and boy do I want to go to summer camp. Flipping back and forth between time periods actually worked really well in this book and I liked both stories equally. Great summer read.

This contemporary romance told for alternating characters and timelines was just okay for me. The story was definitely interesting (young love, found again after a decade). The book had several love scenes while the characters were teenagers that were fairly graphic and felt inappropriate to me personally since it's an adult novel. I found myself siding most often with the parents and wondering where the adult supervision was- I guess that's me aging into a parent as a reader ha! To me, it read more like a young adult novel with only slightly greater depth. It was a quick read, but not one I see myself recommending to others readily.

I love everything K. A. Tucker writes, so I was excited to read her newest book, SAY YOU STILL LOVE ME. This story is enthralling, emotional and drew me in from the first page. I loved the characters; they are realistic, engaging and I felt myself right there with them.

This story goes back and forth in time and had me guessing how it would end. It is about friends who meet at summer camp as teenagers and their stories and lives are intertwined throughout the years.

Kyle and Piper feel genuine and are easy to connect with. What I liked most about Piper is that even though she is wealthy and privileged, she is also down to earth and caring. Kyle, on the other hand, is full of contradictions. On the outside, he is confident and in control but he has learned to hide all his baggage and vulnerabilities. What I admire most about Kyle is that he cares so much for Piper and he is willing to do anything for her. Their love is strong and it lasts throughout the years. This refreshing, emotional love story about young love, made me laugh and cry.

Second-chance romance meets camp-counselor young love in this newest book from K.A. Tucker. Switching between present day and the past, Say You Still Love Me tells the story of Piper Calloway, the daughter of one the of the country’s biggest real estate developers, and Kyle Miller, a young man born into a family of criminals. I enjoyed reading Say You Still Love Me, there is a lot going on between the flashbacks and a couple of little side stories, but as a romance the book never grabbed me.

While I loved Piper’s perspective as a younger woman in the business world and how she dealt with adversity there, she never seemed to mature emotionally between the flashback chapters and the present. Kyle also seemed to standstill and I wasn’t able to get a feel for him as an adult. The lack of character development stole the intensity of the second chance romance and left me feeling ambivalent about it.

There are a couple of side stories that saved the book for me, including Piper’s ex-fiancé David. He’s my favorite character in the book as we see him grow up just a bit between the beginning of the book and the end. He’s shows some nice strength of character that I really appreciated and I’d love to know more about him! There’s also a mystery surrounding Kyle’s best friend, some shady corporate dealings that Piper tackles, and a twist or two that readers have come to expect from Tucker.

K.A. Tucker is one of my favorite authors so I was very excited to find this book. Simple Wild was one of my favorites last year!

This story fell short for me. I didn't really like the characters. While Piper was a successful business woman it seemed like she was only there due to her father. The men at her business took advantage of her and mistreated her - including her father - but she never really stood up for herself. Kyle also seemed to let life happen instead of taking control. I guess I like more assertive characters.

That being said I won't pass up another book from Miss Tucker!

This was my first K. A. Tucker book and I really enjoyed it. The romance was cute and the jumps between the past and the present were well constructed, leaving mystery about what exactly happened in the past, while also still tying it to the events of the present.

Overall Say You Still Love Me is a sweet and romantic second chance love story.

K.A. Tucker has been one of my favorite authors for years. Simple Wild was one of my favorite books from last year. To say that I was excited about Say You Still Love Me would be a major understatement, but the fantasy was better than the reality for me.

Say You Still Love Me has many sweet moments and the excitement of "first love" as well as a bit of the revenge of showing an ex how successful you've become. The trouble for me came with the pacing of the story. I normally really dig a story told in two separate times, but for some reason, about the time I caught the groove of one story arc, the time would shift to the past (or present) and I would be thrown off the rhythm.

This story has a lot going for it, but it just fell short of what I know Tucker can do.

The Simple Wild was one of my favourite books of 2018, so I couldn't wait to get my hands on K.A. Tucker's new book. I'll admit, this one didn't appeal to me quite as much as The Simple Wild, but as someone who worked as a camp counselor as a teenager and also works in a male dominated field, I thought me and Piper could probably relate.

Overall, I liked this book and it kept me engaged throughout, but it definitely couldn't hold a candle to The Simple Wild. I was looking forward to a slow burn romance, which I got to a certain extent, but mostly this book just left me scratching my head about who the intended audience is.

Say You Still Love Me is about 29 year old Piper Calloway, a senior VP at her Dad's billion dollar development firm, Calloway Group. Piper is slated to take over the company when her father retires, but as a young woman, she struggles to be taken seriously in this male-dominated environment. Piper is thrown further off guard by the arrival of her first love, Kyle, who takes a job as a security guard in her building. Piper and Kyle fell in love 13 years ago at Camp Wawa when they were counselors at 16. The relationship ended suddenly and PIper always wondered what happened to Kyle and his sudden reappearance forces her to confront questions that have been buried in the past.

The story is told in alternating timelines between 2006 and 2019. The 2006 timeline is a whirlwind camp romance, while the 2019 timeline is more of the slow burn romance I was looking for. 16 year old Piper is totally head over heels for Kyle and acts how you might expect a dopey teenager in love to act. Whereas 29 year old PIper is a high-powered executive who's trying to figure out her love life while also running a billion dollar company.

Which is why I questioned who the intended audience is. As a 28 year old, I was thrilled to read a new adult book about a successful young woman in her late twenties. I was less interested in reading about a gushy teenager having her first romantic and sexual experiences.

I really think this book is intended for young professionals rather than young adults (teenagers), and no offense, but as a 28 year old, I don't want to read about Piper's first fumbling experiences with sex. I'm not a prude, but I don't really think this book is appropriate for 16 year olds, which begs the question, who is it appropriate for? I don't have a problem with sex scenes in young adult books because we all know teenagers are having sex, but I'm more a fan of the less-explicit, cutesy love scenes. These are definitely explicit adult sex scenes and as an adult I don't want to read about two 16 year olds experimenting with blow jobs.

So a lot of the romance made me uncomfortable because I felt too old to be reading it, even though I think I was the intended audience for the book. I also struggled to buy into Kyle and Piper's romance 13 years later. I do think that your first love holds a bit of a special place in your heart, but these two dated for 6 weeks and then never saw each other for 13 years. I did believe that they would still be attracted to each other and maybe pursue something, but I didn't buy into the whole no-one-else-measures-up-to-you, I've-been-missing-you-for-13-years bit. Mostly because it's kind of sad. I had to agree with Kyle that he and Piper came from such different backgrounds, it was never going to work between them. Everyone changes and grows an inordinate amount between the ages of 16 and 29 and I thought it was a bit disingenuous to pretend like they were still the same people.

So as a romance, this didn't really work for me. But part of what made the Simple Wild so great was that it wasn't just a romance. It was a book about family relationships and choices. If you removed the romance from The Simple Wild, it still had a lot to offer. That's what I was hoping for from this book and like I said, I was excited to read about an ambitious 29 year old woman trying to make it in real estate development and construction.

Piper was pretty baller as a VP, but unfortunately I didn't love this story line either. I was thrilled to see a young woman in a position of power, but I was disappointed by how she got there. Was she deserving of a senior partner role? Potentially - I think she had the skills to get there some day, but I'm sorry, as a 29 year old, she was definitely only there because of her father. I was angry about how a lot of the men treated her, but I couldn't help but agree that it was nepotism that put her there and that's not the kind of role model I'm looking for. I felt like I was supposed to believe that she got to her position by her own merits, but she so obviously didn't. It's so hard for women to get senior management positions and it was irksome to see someone who only made it there because of her father. It was uninspiring.

I also struggled to like Piper. She was a spoiled rich girl. I like that Tucker's heroines are flawed - Calla definitely got on my nerves sometimes, but at the end of the day, she really grew as a person and I loved watching that process. Piper answered all of her problems with money. She really doesn't understand how people like Kyle live and her privilege and wealthy father provided her the opportunity to basically live in ignorance. I saw the ending coming a mile away and I was disappointed in Piper for never checking in on her friends after camp or following up on the "incident" that we wait the whole book to find out about.

Kyle talks about how grounded Piper is being nice to her assistant and talking to the old security guard every day and letting her friends live in her penthouse, but I thought those were all just signs of being a normal, nice human being, nothing extraordinary. Piper was a total Daddy's girl and I always find those kinds of father-daughter relationships creepy. Like she's your daughter Kieran, she's not your possession. You have no right to make decisions for her or keep things from her. But I think a lot of girls will still probably like this because America romanticizes the father-daughter relationship and creepy, overprotective, possessive behaviours. It was just not for me.

Unfortunately the writing of this review is diminishing my opinion of this book and I'm struggling to find what I did like about it. I didn't like Piper's dad, who demonstrates textbook signs of emotional abuse, I didn't like how entitled Piper was, and I didn't like how easily she forgave some pretty sketchy things that Kyle and her Dad did. Even her friends were a bit of a mystery to me. I understand why she stayed friends with Ashley, but I never really understood Christa or how they ended up being friends. They seemed to have nothing in common.

Overall, I just couldn't suspend my disbelief for this book. I know romances are sometimes over the top, but I prefer ones that are more grounded in reality. I didn't think this book had a whole lot going for it outside the romance and since that didn't cut it for me, it didn't have a lot to offer. The writing is still good though - I didn't struggle to read this - even though I didn't enjoy the subject matter. Tucker is good at writing witty dialogue and I thought that held true in this book, it just wasn't as good coming from two lovestruck teenagers. 2.5 stars rounded up.