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.

Thank you for the ARC of this book. My reviews can be read on my GoodReads page at https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1335387-kelly.

I love K.A. Tucker (The Simple Wild is a favorite of mine) but this one just missed the mark for me. I felt like it was formulaic and it’s never a good sign when you find yourself wondering why the hero and heroine are so smitten with each other. The relationship felt like more of a teenage infatuation than a long lasting true love. Great author, but this one was just not for me.

Say You Still Love Me is gonna take you back to your summer camp days, y'all. And for those of us who never went to summer camp days, it'll have you thinking that maybe that was a missed opportunity, especially once you get to know Piper and Kyle. Their slow burn-second chance at love romance was engaging with almost every other chapter flashing back to their first meeting and subsequent weeks at camp, falling in love and getting to know each other and chapters devoted to their here and now. Lest you think it's all a nostalgia filled sepia toned throw back, let me inform you that K.A. Tucker also gives her characters conflict and trouble in their adult lives too. It's most definitely a novel of our time--touching on class and privilege and sexism--while giving us a chance to understand and know the younger versions of Piper and Kyle and how that impacted the older version of who and what they are now.



Say You Love Me will be a hit for romance readers in the waning summer months of 2019. It's throwback to summer camp mixed with an interesting look at the characters in years later will make it hard to put down.

A great summer read about Piper, a high-powered real estate exec, reuniting with her first love Kyle, a security guard in her building. The story shifts in time between current day and 2006, when Kyle and Piper met as summer camp counselors.

I have a soft spot for second-chance romances and I enjoyed the point of view shift between present-day Piper Calloway and 2006 summer camp counselor Piper. This book is a nostalgia trip for millennials. I can only imagine how tempting it'd be to fill this book with early aughts references. Tucker chose not to fill this book with teenagers quoting Borat and for that I thank her.

Piper is a powerhouse and I loved her. She takes her story by the reigns and drives the plot more than any other character. The men in this book are passive, while she cuts to the chase. She doesn't have a particularly strong character arc, but I wouldn't consider that a weak point here. Sixteen-year-old Piper is brazen, if a little insecure, whereas twenty-nine-year-old Piper plows through the faintest of doubts to move forward.

Kyle is every boy from the wrong side of the tracks we all loved as teenagers. While Piper remains steadfast, seventeen-year-old Kyle and thirty-year-old Kyle are completely different. It was interesting to reconcile the two. He's rough around the edges but loyal and kindhearted.

Together, they had excellent chemistry. I rarely react audibly to books but their story made me go "aw" a couple of times.

I really adore K.A. Tucker's novels and this one was no different. I could see myself in Piper, I too had a boy I was in love with at 17 that I thought it would last forever.
I liked how it went back and forth between present day and the past. I loved how her relationship with Kyle developed at Wawa and then how it developed when they found each other again.
The family dynamic was on point, as many of us look for our parents approval in life. But despite their differences I think Piper had a good relationship with her family.
I liked that she, Ashley, and Christa stayed friends and ended up living together.
I really adored this book, Tucker has a way with romance and building on everything. I knew the other shoe was going to drop somewhere near the end, but I was glad with the way everything turned out.

I’m always a fan of Ka Tucker novels. This was a very good read. Not one of my favorites but definitely worth the read and very sweet and touching!!!

Super strong femal lead + boy from the wrong side of the tracks .... Sign me up!!! This book did not disappoint!! How did I not read anything before this point by K.A. Tucker?!?! Such an incredible romance author! This story was amazing!!

Thank you Netgalley for an advance copy for my honest review.

Piper has lived a privileged life until her mom forces her to work as a counselor at a summer camp. Kyle works at camp Wawa to get away from the mess his family has created of his and their lives. Naturally the two fall in love but their summer is cut short and they lose contact. Cut to 13 years later when Piper sees Kyle leaving her office building and the two reconnect.

This book is told from the present and the past, and done in a really wonderful way. I really enjoyed finding out small bits of the story throughout but never knowing the full details until the end. It left me wanting to know more and not wanting to put it down!

K.A Tucker is back! I love KA Tucker, but for some reason I was not able to get into her last few releases. I will still always pick up what she writes, so I had to jump on getting an E-ARC of Say You Still Love Me.

This one brought me to tears and I read it in one sitting. I do not want to give too much away, but it is a must read. I will be purchasing my own copy once it is released to add to my collection.

Oh how I loved this book!

The author takes the reader back and forth between Piper's time at summer camp as a teen and her current life where she is in a high-powered role at her father's company. She is just about to take the reins of the company when her former flame and long lost summer camp love, Kyle, shows up in the very building she works in. The twists and turns will have you on the edge of your seat waiting to read just why Piper and Kyle parted ways after summer camp and whether forever is a possibility for them today.

K.A Tucker is an awesome romance author. She also knows how to tell a story, and the important parts to highlight. She made me feel a world of emotions in this book and honestly I’m shocked at just how much I loved this one. At first glance at the cover, I wasn’t expecting too much, but this was such a great book.

I’ve never read a ‘second chance romance’ before and I absolutely am intrigued by this concept. I mean, having feelings last for 13 years after seems a bit unrealistic, but the way this story was told with the past and present viewpoints made the reader feel the connections and the grasp to the past as more immediate and believable. It was a smart plot device and I really did enjoy it. Piper was a strong-willed, independent and passionate businesswoman. Her wealth, status or family didn’t define her and she was able to create a really special life for herself by making her own decisions and following her heart.

I think a big part of this book was the nostalgia the reader feels for summer camp. I mean, even if I didn’t go to a camp when I was a teen, I could probably still picture the events of this book perfectly because of the author's incredible descriptions. This has office intrigue, family conflict, friendship, love and romance all woven beautifully together in a unique and well-written story.

Thank you to Atria Books for sending the NetGalley widget my way for an honest review. Say You Still Love Me by K.A. Tucker releases August 6.

Piper Calloway has it all. She’s on her way to becoming the CEO of her father’s real estate company, Calloway Group, she has her best friends as her roommates in a luxury condo, she’s got a fiancé, and is more than ready to take on the world. Even when things end up not working out with her fiancé, she’s not going to let that get her down.

Piper puts her focus on her job, becoming fully immersed in her work life and convinces herself she has no time to date. That is until she recognizes the new security guard at the office and she stops in her tracks — it’s Kyle, her first love from the summer camp, Camp Wawa, where she worked at thirteen years ago. The boy who broke her heart.

Stunned and caught up in reliving her past, Piper has the overwhelming realization that she never got over the feelings she had for him. Piper knows she has to confront Kyle, find out why he never contacted her and, more importantly, find out if he still loves her.

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Say You Still Love Me by K.A. Tucker is a sweet summertime romance filled with nostalgic memories and a second chance young love. This story had a bit of a YA feel, yet it still stayed true to the romance and writing style of Tucker’s previous books. The details were something that I found to be intricately written — I could almost feel the warm sun and the exhilaration of jumping off a cliff into water.

While the writing is thoughtful and detailed, there were certain phrases that were overused and repeated a bit too much throughout. It didn’t have a huge affect on my reaction to the story as a whole, however it was noticeable and eventually caught my attention more often throughout.

The characters were relatable and likable, I enjoyed seeing sixteen year old Piper in comparison to twenty-nine year old Piper. However, the character development ended up being a bit lacking for her, in my opinion. It was a bit unbelievable that thirteen years later she would see her first love and immediately fall back into being infatuated by him when he completely broke her heart. Let alone that she had recently broken off her engagement. She’s completely willing to let someone she knew thirteen years ago back into her life wholly and even give him a key to her condo when they barely know each other at this time in their lives. It felt a little immature and unrealistic, leaving me confused and a bit frustrated.

The pacing of the story was slow building at first, and I enjoyed seeing the situations and events play out at an even pace. As I approached the ending though, the story seemed to pick up pace immensely and began to feel too rushed. Piper went from unforgiving to forgiving without much thought and that also took away from the development of her character. I did enjoy the way the past and present seemed to align when Piper and Kyle end up back at Camp Wawa in the present — that was a great touch that brought the story full circle.

Overall, Say You Still Love Me is a romantic, sweet read that I enjoyed reading in the sun on my front porch. Though it didn’t keep a consistent flow and the characters and situations weren’t as realistic as they could have been, this story is perfect for taking time to think back and reminisce on those summertime memories that we all carry with us.

Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free, electronic ARC of this novel, received in exchange for an honest review.
“Say You Still Love Me” is the quintessential “boy-from-wrong-side-of-tracks-meets-rich-girl-whose-parents-disapprove” love story. Star-crossed teenagers meet as counselors at a summer camp, proceed to fall in love, and then are torn apart by time, distance, and the influence (and bank accounts) of disapproving parents, only to meet again as adults. A story old as time, yet somehow “Love Me” still manages to entertain.
KA Tucker is a Canadian author (holla to a fellow Canuck!) of seventeen novels and counting, including “Keep Her Safe” and “The Simple Wild”. Tucker’s talent has allowed her to take an overdone plot, and add her own creative twist, making the story dramatically addicting.
Piper Calloway is well on her way. At 29 years old, she is being set up to take over for her father when he retires from the highly profitable Calloway Group. Hardworking and determined, Piper is suddenly sidelined when a new security guard starts at CG; a security guard she recognizes as Kyle Miller, the boy she had a relationship with when she was a counselor at Camp Wawa years ago. Piper quickly realizes that the feelings she once had are back with a vengeance, but Kyle does not seem to even recognize her. Piper must decide if it is worth the risk (to her job, her family, her life as she knows it) to pursue a long-lost love from her past and finally have all of her questions about Kyle’s sudden disappearance, answered.
This novel is told in alternating time lines; one in present day, and one from years ago when Piper and Kyle were camp counselors. Each chapter narrates a different time line, and each time line is clearly identified, which makes the juxtaposition of years very easy to follow.
Kyle and Piper’s relationship, both in the past and currently, is honest and flawed, without an overabundance of saccharine sweet romanticism that often keeps me from experiencing novels like this. In “Say you Still Love Me”, I actually rooted for the characters throughout, without the vomit-inducing sickly sweet romantic nonsense that exists in other novels of this genre.
Highly recommended for readers who enjoy real romance, with genuine turmoil and challenges, complete with feelings of nostalgia (if not of summer camp, than of summer romances) and a satisfying ending. Tucker has turned me on to romantic novels again, and I thoroughly thank her for it.

If I'm going to read romance I want it to be K.A. Tucker, she combines romance and mystery/intrigue perfectly into her stories so I end up totally engrossed and want to read the entire book in one sitting, and then end up disappointed that there's nothing left to read.

Say You Still Love Me is the story of Piper Calloway and her unrequited love from summer camp. The book goes back and forth between her summer at camp 13 years ago and the present day where she's a big shot VP at her dad's company. The story is heartwrenching as most people can remember the intensity of their first loves (or infatuations) and you'll be flipping through pages to see what happens to Piper and her first love Kyle.