THIS BOOK WAS EVERYTHING!!!!
I can easily read 3 more books about Calla and Jonah and every other character within this world. K.A. Tucker delivered a fantastic sequel.

Another fantastic read by the amazing KA Tucker!! Wild at Heart is book two in the Wild series. It was so great to get back to the gorgeous Alaskan setting! And getting to see more of Calla and Jonah was an added plus! I love this entire group of characters. As with all of KA Tucker’s characters, they’re all so unique and real. I feel like I know them all personally. Calla and Jonah’s romance was so fun too. Johan is rough and tough and always says it like it is. To see the chemistry and adorable banter between him and Calla was so fun!! I’m really hoping there’s more to this series!!

I just love a good small town romance! K. A. Tucker continues to wow me with her words. From the swoon-filled sweet sigh to the shrieking oh my, K.A. Tucker paints a vivid and mesmerizing portrait of passion and perseverance in Wild at Heart, the enchanting encore to The Simple Wild. A master storyteller, K.A. Tucker paints this story to perfection with detail that makes this novel spring to life. The seamless way that Tucker gives a 360 degree snapshot of these complex characters—showing readers all angles and layers of the story—brings a depth and breath to Wild At Heart that many readers dream of happening.

Calla and Jonahs’ story picks up where it left off in The Simple Wild and they continue to battle life as they find love. I absolutely loved Calla and Jonah the Viking God, and ate up their story! Calla’s sass mixed with Jonah’s broody persona and hot talk is utterly addicting. Wild At Heart brings Jonah and Callas’ relationship to a whole new level of depth and devotion, and I reveled in this hero and heroines’ development. This hero and heroine were phenomenal together.

Enlightening, enchanting, and emotionally rich, this love story bursts with its beautiful Alaskan setting, dives deep into the complexity of its charming characters, and burns with swoon and soul as it brings the messages of taking risks and living life to its fullest to light. IRRESISTIBLY CHARMING, this sweet small town romance tore at my heartstrings and never let go. It’s SWEET. It’s SMOLDERING. It’s STIRRING. It’s SUSPENSEFUL. It’s SPECIAL. The writing is pure ‘melt-your-heart’ MAGIC. SO HEARTWARMING! Wild At Heart embedded itself into my heart, and I LOVED every bit of this beauty!

Prepare to fall in love with Calla and Jonah all over again in this MUST-READ romantic journey!

💋💋💋💋💋 yeti kisses and calla lily hugs

So glad to be back in the wild with Jonah and Calla! I love their love story and am so glad K.A. Tucker is giving us more!

Wild at Heart by K.A. Tucker
4 stars!
I loved the first book in this series, The Simple Wild, and couldn’t wait to read this sequel!
I ended up enjoying my time reading this.
I loved reading about Jonah and Calla’s relationship, and how they had to go through some struggles.
I also loved Calla’s relationship with her neighbors and newly loved pets. I will say I cried many times. I would not label this as an emotional read, but I cried nonetheless. I only cried when Wren was mentioned in the book, because he was one of my favorite characters in the first book.
Butttt, I did have some things I didn’t necessarily love. I was bored throughout a lot of this book. Most of it is just Calla doing mundane things in or around her house. To be quite honest, I was kind of annoyed that almost every conversation Jonah and Calla had ended with them ‘doing it.’ It was rare for them to just end a conversation normally. I also didn’t love this book as much as the first one probably because it did not have that family aspect that I adored from the first book. There was no Wren, Agnes, and Mable throughout the book. Yes Mable and Agnes pop up maybe twice, but I felt like that wasn’t enough.
Although I didn’t necessarily love it, I did enjoy my time reading it :)

I was sent an early copy in exchange for an honest review.

Here’s the link to my live reaction vlog: https://youtu.be/-bwPfO1A-PU

WILD AT HEART • K.A. TUCKER
This sequel to “The Simple Wild” focuses on the relationship between Calla and Jonah. After leaving Alaska to return to her life in the city, Calla finds herself miserable and missing the great Alaska wild. When Jonah shows up at her doorstep, Calla has a difficult choice to make - leave the comforts of her home in Toronto for the unknown in Alaska or stay living a life without the Yeti man she loves. Wild at Heart is a story of passion, the challenges of change and the lengths we go for true love.
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->> @katucker_ has done it again. I love these characters (especially Jonah - hello lovely mountain man). Calla continues to show such growth in the story proving that a city slicker can survive out in the woods. I liked that we saw a different side to Calla - I think she really sacrificed a lot in this book to make things work, which for her character was real progress. I enjoyed the new band of characters in Trapper’s Crossing too. Great additions that kept me invested throughout the book. I liked that Tucker touched on things like isolation, suicide, and the dangers of the Alaska wild. It was integrated nicely into the narrative. Overall this lived up to all my expectations, I didn’t want it to end. I want another book in this series! // special THANK YOU again to @socialbutterfly_pr and K.A. Tucker for the digital ARC - had to purchase my own copy I loved it so much, took my time to savor this one. ->> RATING: 5/5 ✨

I read this back in March, and when the world went to hell in a hand basket, I forgot to post my review. Better late than never...

It was as if Calla and Jonah swapped places in my terms of affection. I admired how much Calla grew in this installment, and I adore her now more than ever. I still love Jonah, but he annoyed me at times and seemed too selfish in the relationship. I was pleased there was no unneeded drama and most the events were issues often faced in a relationship. While I was satisfied with the ending of Simple Wild, I am not complaining about more from this couple/world.

I am probably in the minority here but I wish this book hadn’t been written. I absolutely loved The Simple Wild. I raved about it forever. It’s still a book I constantly
Recommend to people and can’t stop recommending it. This one wasn’t the sequel I was looking for. Calla went backwards and didn’t show much growth to me. Overall the story didn’t resolve much for me and I was still waiting for the happy ending that didn’t come. This was a disappointment for me!

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To say that this book was my most anticipated of 2020 is an understatement. (I took this photo in OCTOBER FOR GOODNESS SAKES - Peep my orange tree outside my window) If you’ve followed me at all the last year you’ll know The Simple Wild is my favorite book. When I first read it, it evoked that feeling that I’ve described I’m always chasing. The one where you just FEEL a story. The one that makes you fall in love with reading all over again. When I heard @katucker_ was writing a sequel and that she was revisiting Calla and Jonah I was THRILLED and nervous. The Simple Wild was so perfect and I wanted this book to just bring me back to that place. It did.

Without giving anything away - this book picks up right after the end of The Simple Wild. And the thing I love about these two books so much is honestly how perfectly Calla and Jonah are written. They’re real and raw and flawed. They make mistakes and they grow. You hate them sometimes. There isn’t any stupid drama. No crazy plot twists. No horrible miscommunications that make no sense. The reason I love these books so much is in the details.

Life is complex and complicated enough to create conflict. It’s the minutia of loving someone so much you’re afraid you’ll lose yourself, wanting to make someone else happy at the expense of your own happiness, the insecurities we all have always just simmering enough under the surface and the unpredictability of life that surprises us good and bad. It’s a flippant comment here, hair tucked behind an ear there. Jonah and Calla’s relationship lives in the minutia. Bravo once again @katucker_ - it was everything I hoped and wanted for them. I’m already planning a reread (and have shipped my dog to Canada - he’s coming DHL EXPRESS) but you HAVE to first read TSW and then preorder this one before release 2/18! // ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️

* I received an ARC from the author*

Considering I only read The Simple Wild this year I was so thrilled that a sequel was coming out in a few months. Calla and Jonah's story clearly wasn't finished and I was happy to find out their story was being continued

Picking up right where TSW ended, Calla and Jonah are still blissfully inlove. After Jonah asks Calla to more to Alaska to be with him she says yes and off they go.

Through this adventure you see Calla grow as a person and understand why her mother left. This story had so many new elements and Calla learnt how to live in the country life.

Calla may have been a rich city girl but in this book she has grown up. From them owning their own home to Calla growing fruit and veggies in her garden. Never before would you have thought that Calla would get her hands dirty.

So let me just say I think this story was perfect but there was just so much missing in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, I love when the author writes more about their characters but I felt that this was missing a huge part of their story which I'm hoping will be in book 3??

Overall enjoyed the story and can't wait to see how this continues

I read The Simple Wild last fall and fell in love with Jonah, Calla, and Alaska and so I couldn’t wait to continue their story in Wild at Heart ❤️
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I really enjoyed the fact that their story continued beyond where we left them in TSW. As fun as it is to read books where couples meet cute and fall in love, I really like the perspective of making love work in the real world and overcoming obstacles for each other. And Jonah and Calla certainly have obstacles to overcome!
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Jonah has to learn that he needs to actively share his life with Calla, and to take her opinions into consideration. Calla also needs to let go of some of her selfish and immature ways, and find her own happiness in her new Alaskan life.
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While this read more like women’s fiction than romance, per se, I thought it was a beautiful continuation of their story! I loved discovering with them a new part of Alaska as well as meeting new characters. K A Tucker’s writing is, as always, compelling and beautiful and if you read TSW then Wild at Heart is a must read!

To say that Wild at Heart was an anticipated read for me would be a huge understatement. When KA announced that she’d be writing a sequel to The Simple Wild I couldn’t believe it. My excitement was through the roof—I was ecstatic. I mean, I could never have enough of Jonah aka Yeti and Calla.

Wild at Heart picks up a few months after the events of The Simple Wild. Calla and Jonah are getting ready to start their lives together in Alaska. Both are sacrificing parts of themselves for each other. Calla is leaving behind everything she’s known to move and be with Jonah, but she can’t wait to start this new chapter with him.

I loved how this book was filled with growth, both personal and relationship growth. I liked the friendships in this book, both old and new. I loved the feel of family and togetherness—the wholesomeness brought the story to an exceptional level.

I was once again swept away and taken on an Alaskan adventure. I can clearly picture the Alaskan wild in my mind. Tucker’s descriptions of Alaska were beautiful, idyllic, and just picturesque. It felt as though I was transported and walking right alongside Calla as she was navigating her own path and learning while journeying and experiencing growth.

Wild at Heart is a beautiful sequel. This novel was a feel good book from start to finish. I was left wanting even more of Calla, Jonah and their Alaska adventure. I was sad to see this book end—I could read 50 more books about Calla and Jonah and never get enough. I need more!

Thank you for the opportunity to read this title. Unfortunately, I couldn't get into this story & found Calla to be insufferable. I really loved The Simple Wild bit only got about 25% into this title.

We got the ‘happy for now’ ending we all wanted for Jonah and Calla in THE SIMPLE WILD, but in WILD AT HEART, K.A. Tucker teases us with the ‘happily ever after’ we all yearn for in a great romance: can Calla and Jonah go the distance? Can Calla defeat her fears of fleeing the unknown and falling into the arms of her forever Yeti?⠀
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WILD AT HEART is so much more than a romance novel. In the bell curve we come accustom to in romance, WILD AT HEART picks up at the flat line post-resolution, but it beats along, like a heart beat itself, as we watch Calla and Jonah make a new life for themselves in Trapper’s Crossing.⠀
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Cognizant not to step into the snowy footsteps her mother left behind, and trying to balance a way of life foreign to her, Calla struggles with her own identity and whether her love for Jonah can conquer all. As with THE SIMPLE WILD, what I loved about WILD AT HEART was its realism: Jonah is gone all day, most days of the week, and because of that, we have a lot of moments in this book filled with new characters and storylines independent of the love story. As Calla felt the isolation and her desire for Jonah to come home, I felt it too. We are introduced to new characters with complex backstories. We are reacquainted with characters from THE SIMPLE WILD whose journeys take interesting turns in this second book. And true to THE SIMPLE WILD, we are introduced yet again to the character of Alaska, this time manifesting in the serene and somewhat terrifying woods of rural Alaska. You thought Bangor was isolating for Calla, well Trapper’s Crossing is a whole new bear (pun intended). ⠀
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In all, I loved this book. It was the perfect sequel. If you’re looking for a steamy romance, you’re not going to find that here, but that’s not its purpose: instead, K.A. Tucker has delivered a masterful sequel that answers our lingering question from THE SIMPLE WILD – how can Jonah and Calla, teed up to face the same obstacles as Calla’s parents, make a not-so-simple life together work?⠀ ⠀
CW/TW: isolation, near death experiences, DV, suicide, loss

This book. Gave me ALL the feels. It was the perfect follow up to The Simple Wild. It picks up right where TSW left us. We get to see Calla and Jonah navigate their new relationship in a new place. And we meet new, fun characters. We learn a lot more about Call and Jonah in this book. I really hope we get more!!

This was one of my most anticipated reads of 2020 and it absolutely kills me that I could not finish it. I loved The Simple Wild so much, but this story quickly made me dislike the characters. I know many people that loved this book, but for me it no longer felt like a romance but a women’s fiction about Calla trying to live in Alaska. I no longer liked her and Jonah as a couple after reading part of this and decided to DNF at 30%

I have been SO freaking excited for the sequel to The Simple Wild, one of my favorite books of 2018, ever since K.A. Tucker announced she would be writing more of Calla and Jonah. TSW ended on a bit of an HFN, so it made sense that there would be more of their story to tell. I adored their romance and was a little nervous going into Wild at Heart – obviously, there is the question that goes with any sequel: will I love it as much as the first? While this sequel wasn’t quite the 5-star read that the first book was, I still loved being back with Calla and Jonah again and enjoyed this further glimpse into their lives in Alaska together! If you loved TSW, I highly recommend you give this sequel a try – Calla and Jonah are still very much together and in love, but they have plenty of new struggles to overcome.

Wild at Heart picks up fairly soon after the end of The Simple Wild – Calla has agreed to be with and move to Alaska with Jonah, but only if they move to a town that’s closer to a big city. So even though Jonah is ‘home’ in Alaska, they both have to deal with moving to a new town, finding and building a home, and making new friends and connections. Jonah is just as focused on planes as he was in the first book. He’s honestly the sexiest pilot I’ve ever read! Calla is determined to make Alaska her new home, because that’s where Jonah is. But when Jonah spends more time away in order to make enough money to build a life for the two of them, Calla needs to find herself not just a job, but a passion to dedicate her life while in this new environment.

There’s not a lot of drama when it comes to Wild at Heart, and I actually liked that. It’s not as thrilling or exciting as the first book, which felt like “OMG, ALASKA!!” but that doesn’t necessarily make it worse. This sequel is more of a “let’s build a new life here, together” type of story, with Jonah and Calla creating a home for themselves and settling down. I really enjoyed the new people Calla meets in town, though Agnes, Mabel, and Wren will always be my favorites. The story is sweet and heartwarming, with K.A. Tucker’s talented writing that will suck you right back into Alaska and remind you just why you love Jonah and Calla so much. Jonah still has the ability to make me swoon, though I did want to smack him a few times when he got frustrating. So if you’ve been missing these two and/or Alaska, you definitely need to read Wild at Heart.

Just when I thought I couldn’t love watching Jonah and Calla grow anymore then I did in the first book.... Kathleen goes and gives you a whole new level of growth, humor, and love. The addition of the new characters along with snippets of the one, was done perfectly. The character growth of Calla not only as a partner, but as a woman was incredible and watching Jonah grow as a partner, pilot, and business owner was about as amazing. You’re left sad that it’s over, and wanting more.

Do not go into this thinking it's a romance. It felt more like Woman's fiction for me.

Its a journey of Calla and Jonah trying to make a life together and not repeating the history of Calla's parents. Like Calla's mother mentioned all her challenges in the first book, this book was difficult in its own right. I fucking loved Calla in the book. It was her journey through and through to make it somewhere she never thought she'd end up at. I wholeheartedly support and love her.. ❤️ We also see some really amazing new side characters. So a definite plus for that.

With that being said. I would not call this a romance book. There was not enough romance in this for me. Were there romantic elements? Sure. But personally speaking, this book was more focused on Calla adapting to Alaska and absence of Jonah.

My complaint is Jonah. I was disappointed with him. I know we are feeling what Calla is feeling. But gahh. He annoyed me. Their lack of connection annoyed me. All these two did was remove each other's pajamas and have fade to black sex. Maybe add ten lines of snark.

The entire book was focused on Calla's life in Alaska. With 75% of her learning how to Garden and solve difficulties she faces when redecorating their house. She was entirely lost in making new friends, taking care of animals, learning how to cook, gardening and every other thing. Every thing was in detail. It wasn't bad.

It just wasn't what I signed up for.

I signed up for more relationship progress between Calla and Jonah.
More sweeter moments between them.
Them navigating this new life TOGETHER.
Jonah asked Calla the customary question How was ur day. But he never took an ounce of interest in Calla's day. Always with That's great. I'm glad..
He didn't even fucking enter the garden that she has been spending so much of her effort on.

SO, no.

His wasn't the romance I signed up for. Calla's parents had more chemistry in the last book than these two in this one.

Now this is all my opinion. There are ten times more positive review than this.

Do I recommend? Sure. If u love Calla and Jonah, it's a good revisit. It's not something I'll read it again though.