A brilliant exploration that had me contemplating my views on life, love, and truths only the heart can fully understand.

The Simple Wild blew me away with its intimate look at relationships, especially the ties that bind. Tucker excels at taking the seemingly ordinary and exposing all its extraordinary qualities. The people, places, and even the animals are all incredibly memorable. Be prepared for Wren, Susan, Simon, Calla, Jonah, Agnes, Mabel, and so many more to steal your heart! I love them all. Each brings life to this story with humor, heart, adventure, shenanigans, honesty, and a swoon-worthy setting that is simply breathtaking.

I read this novel in one sitting, equally unable and unwilling to put it down. Every word carefully crafted to intrigue, enthrall, and inspire. My emotions were all over the place: curious, concerned, entertained, sad, twisted and unsure, hopeful, happy, swooning, and always satisfied. Tucker’s writing is effortless, layers upon layers of subtle details that leave a lasting impact. The Simple Wild is must read.

This is a great enemies to lovers plot line about the outdoors in Alaska. Calla is a very strong character that she is someone that I would totally want to be friends with. Even though Jonah is convinced that Calla is out of her depth, she really tries to learn about the man (her father) that she has always wondered about. Jonah is, of course, the rugged hero that you always wanted. He and Calla have a great connections and both grow throughout the story. You will feel like you are in the Great Frontier and be so happy you read this book. This book is very close to pushing Ten Tiny Breaths out as my all-time Tucker favorite! Her writing is amazing in this installment and I really felt like I was feeling the emotions of all of these wonderful characters!

Very moving and fantastically written novel by K.A. Tucker. This one may have moved Ten Tiny Breaths out of the top spot for me.

It's the perfect balance of all the feels, comedic timing, and titillating romance. I almost felt like I was in Alaska (which I have no desire to go to) while reading this novel. Not only are the characters wonderful, but the way the surroundings are described set this book apart. The relationships, not only with the main character Calia and her father but with Jonah, were so realistic.

I couldn't put this one down and I will definitely be re-reading this one as I feel the first time through I may have missed so much as I just needed to get to the next page to see how things unfolded. I wholeheartedly recommend this book, especially if you loved Ten Tiny Breaths.

ARC Provided by Publisher for free, but this does not influence my review.

Such a sweet book. The beginning was a bit hard to get through, it was fairly formulaic and full of tropes, but still well-written and I adored it.

Oh my! K.A. Tucker has several books waiting on my TBR and even a few I've picked up on my shelves...waiting. Even though it's not my first purchase of a K.A. Tucker book, The Simple Wild is my first to read. I can't imagine starting on any other.

The Simple Wild will have you reacting from the very first page. It's funny how we judge things, people, and situations. It's incredibly clear in this story.
The uppity city chick....
The sky cowboy...
The diva princess...
The yeti...

Just know if you can't handle the cold, get out of Alaska! (Or read this book since you won't actually feel the cold!😉) The humor in these pages will have you snorting and breaking out into raucous laughter. Let me just say, revenge is a dish best served cold. Out cold! [Giggles like a maniac]

From the snarky comebacks to the wild revenge plots, The Simple Wild will keep you entertained while slowly and surely making you fall in love. Not just with a rogue sky cowboy, but with a landscape most of us could never handle.

As much I don't consider myself a city girl, I know that I would never make it in Bangor...Anchorage okay. Bangor...not so much.

Being brave and hearty aren't enough in the Bush country, but this taste of that life will have you volunteering to pack a bag (or two over sized pieces of luggage). Hold onto your hat and your heart because The Simple Wild is a bit bumpy. Watch out for heartache, anger, and rocks.

But when you are watching out and trying to protect yourself, I want you to remember you will never regret falling.

Also...“Two go out, two come back, right?”

5 Simply Perfect Stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

K A Tucker is one of my absolute favorite authors, and this is now my absolute favorite book by her! Sorry “Ten Tiny Breaths “you still are fabulous... but this book has edged you out of that top spot! When you pick up a k a Tucker book you know you are going to go on an emotional journey, filled with fabulously complex characters, and a plot filled with twists and secrets that will keep you on your toes.... this book did all that and so much more... truly a beautiful story all about love set in the cold beauty of Alaska...

Calla is 26 and has not seen her dad since she was two years old when her mother and she left rugged Alaska for Toronto...Calla has been hurt by her father’s absence in her life, but fortunate for her she has the world’s greatest stepfather Simon... can I just take a minute to praise Simon’s character... this man was everything a parent should be, I was beyond impressed with him... and can I just say he truly deserved much more than Susan (Calla’s mom) gave him.... after receiving a phone call from a stranger in Alaska urging her to come see her father before it is too late and some wonderful advice from Saint Simon; Calla packs her many bags and heads to Alaska....

Met at the airport by Jonah a.k.a. “the yeti “ Calla’s alaskan journey begins.... for Jonah and Calla it is dislike at first sight... my favorite trope is enemies to lovers and I loved watching the relationship between these two develop... The banter between them was absolutely priceless and some of the things they did to one another were downright wrong... but so hilarious.....

I absolutely loved how Calla embraced small town Alaska... it took her a little while longer to fully embrace her father Wren.... and that is completely understandable after all where has he been for all these years? Not a phone call since she was 12, and he missed her eighth-grade graduation.... but Calla doesn’t know the entire story and as things are revealed to her and she gets to know her father better her heart starts to open up to him....

There is so much love in this book and it is beautiful and it is heartbreaking... The love these people have for the state of Alaska... the Love this community has for one another... The love of family, and not necessarily a biological family but a found family... and romantic love, both wonderful and new, and heartbreaking and lasting....

“The Simple Wild” is simple perfection... I absolutely recommend this book to everybody... it will make you smile, it will make you laugh, it will make you cry tears of joy and heartbreak... and it will make you want to go to Alaska!

*** many thanks to Atria for my copy of this beautiful book ***

My review won't do this book justice. I honestly can say it's up in the top 5 books I've read this year.
From the characters to the story line it's perfection. She wrote this with every emotion you could wrench out of a story, it's glaringly real.
Calla lives in Toronto with her mother the perfectionist florist and step father the psychiatrist. She's just had a truly sh** day, losing her job due to restructuring, her boyfriend is unavailable and her friend beckons her to have a night out on the town. Stepdad reminds her to take the trash to the curb.
Calla is estranged from her father, her mother left him in Alaska to return to Toronto when she was 2. There were several failed attempts at meeting but essentially he's a stranger. He owns a small airline in the western tundra of Alaska, where nothing comes in except via air. She's dodged one call from there, when she's leaving her step dad hands her the phone and it's an unfamiliar voice who seems to know her well and seems to know her father even better. She's calling to tell her, her father is ill and things don't look good and giving her the chance to come and meet her father. Who is a stranger to her. She makes no promises but gets her e mail and tells her she'll decide. The woman at the other end of the line is gentle and encouraging but also understanding. Calla's mother never stopped loving her father, despite being married to Ollie all these years. Ollie asks Calla the right questions and pretty much helps Calla decide to go for one week. That's all. When out with her friend that night she spots her boyfriend with a group from his work and his hands on another women, Calla is done. She's not angry, the relationship has outlived itself. That too helps her decide. Her trip is horrendous and worse yet, she's not a good flyer and is met in Anchorage by a real putz Jonah. Jonah brings the smallest plane they have and takes her on the worst flight of her life. No room for her luggage. She's forced to cram a few things into a small duffle with promises her luggage will be sent along on the next cargo flight... right. Jonah who Calla calls Yeti is one ornery sob. Bad attitude, judgemental and has his own nonsense he's dealing with along with the illness of a man he's comes to call his best friend. A man who gave him a chance. Jonah is the best pilot inherited father's business. Agnes works for her Dad also, she's the one who called. She's kind and also witty. Easy to like and caring.
She makes excuses for Jonah's behavior that I honestly wouldn't have been anywhere close to forgiving. Her father lives in the same house that she was born in. Her room still the way it was when she and her mother left. Little calla lilies painted on the walls. It takes them a while to get reacquainted both uncomfortable and not knowing what to say, she feels like an outsider in this man's life. She's helped along by Agnes and some of the friends there. Everyone knows her Dad, he's the lifeline to the small villages that dot this frozen landscape. As Calla becomes familiar with the lay of the land up there and the tension between her and Jonah eases somewhat, she begins to understand her father's choices, and also how evasive he is about his illness and what the near future holds. She decides to extend her visit, not ready to go home. Her father knows what's coming and already has some plans in place, the other person who knows is Jonah. Jonah and Calla develop a relationship of sorts that starts with them flying out to pick up some missing hikers and being stranded by the weather, a common occurrence there. Calla doesn't want to go home just yet. The story continues to unfold and is so beautifully woven. The characters are so well developed, it's a story you feel like you're a part of. Beginning, middle, end is is perfection. Serious book hangover and I can't recommend it enough. It deserves far more than five stars. I said it was in the top 5, I actually think it's the best book I've read this year.
The book also brought back memories for me, having spent a year in Alaska some years ago, so it was also a story I could relate to in so many ways.

**arc from NetGalley and publisher in exchange for an honest review**

This book completely gutted me!
I love the characters so much. I related to Calla a lot too.. what she went through, I’ve been in a similar situation with someone who was like a second father to me.. might have made the experience so much stronger while reading.. I’m daddy’s girl through and through even with our distant relationship.
Each and every time I think I’ve found my. favourite but KA Tucker always seems to change it with each release! This one is no exception. I love her writing and can’t wait to see what she comes up with for her next release!

Keep the tissues close by as you are reading THE SIMPLE WILD by K.A. Tucker. She will have your emotions all over the place. Once I started reading, it was very hard to stop! The twists and turns made it impossible to put down, as I had to know what was going to happen to Calla and her dad who she hasn't seen since she was two years old. What an awesome story. All of K.A.'s characters feel genuine and relatable and put your emotions on one heck of a roller coaster ride. Calla is now twenty six years old and living in Toronto. Her dad is very sick and lives in Alaska working as a bush pilot for his company. As you are reading, you will find yourself cheering for all of them, praying they can work out their problems and be happy once again.


THE SIMPLE WILD is all about family and the past and the secrets that come out are heart tugging. It had me flipping through the pages like a woman on a mission. I had to know what was going to happen to Calla and her dad Wren, and all the secondary characters. Jonah is a pilot who works for Wren and he has quite a sense of humor. Anyway, Calla and Jonah couldn't stand being in the same room, but over time they help each other and I loved watching them grow. I really wanted to reach in to the story and give them both a hug. The bantering between these two is hysterical and I was giggling out loud more than once. THE SIMPLE WILD is a heart tugging story that will hold you hostage until the very last page. Once you start reading, it will be very hard to put down!


THE SIMPLE WILD is without a doubt one of the best books I've read in 2018 so far. I was instantly emotionally invested in all of the characters. My heart broke for Calla and Wren and for all they were dealing with. K.A. Tucker really knows how to write about family drama, heartbreak, letting go, and forgiveness. I can not wait to read more by this wonderful and heart tugging author. I have read a few other books by this spot on author but I have many of her older books to read and that brings me so much joy and happiness to know they are waiting for me! She has the most beautiful covers! Check them out!!

Is it bad etiquette to start a review with a quote by another author? Because while reading this book, I couldn’t stop thinking about Tarryn Fisher’s quote in one of my favorite books of all-time, Mud Vein, “What’s the difference?” I asked him. “Between the love of your life, and your soulmate?” “One is a choice, and one is not.” And I know I haven’t been on this Earth for that long, but that quote is the one of the truest things I’ve ever read in literature. And it really encompasses the theme of The Simple Wild. And sometimes, when you’re lucky enough, and are able to do everything in your power, you are able to have them both.

Let me also start this review off by saying that I feel like this book was very catered to my personal tastes, and I’ll go into that more in the review, but The Simple Wild is currently my favorite romance of 2018. The writing, the setting, the messages, the romance? It was all perfect in my eyes. This was also my first KA Tucker book, but I promise that it won’t be my last.

“What hold does Alaska have on them? What makes this place worth giving everything else up?”

The Simple Wild centers around a twenty-six-year-old named Calla, who has lived twenty-four years in Toronto with her mother. And both Calla and her mother, Susan, have spent most of those years wishing that the man they left in a very remote part of Alaska would come back for them. Calla’s father took over his father’s aviation business, that delivers supplies, food, and medical treatment all over the native towns around this rural part of Alaska. But they’ve both moved on; Susan married an amazing new man, Simon, and Calla just gave up the hope that her father would ever be more than distant heartache. That is, until a woman calls Calla and urges her to finally meet her father, after all these years, before it’s too late and she is never given the chance again. Calla, with the help and support of a few amazing people, decides to fly out and stay for a while in the remote village in Alaska that her father has always chosen over her and her mother.

“I’d always ask him to fly out to visit me. I mean, he had all these planes to choose from, so why couldn’t he just hop in one of them and come?”

KA Tucker says that Bangor is a made-up place in Alaska, but oh my gosh did I fall in love with this fictional community. And Calla gets to meet the people who have been her father’s family for his entire life. And I’ll never make excuses for a parent not wanting to be a bigger part of their child’s life, but I actually felt so much empathy for Calla’s dad, Wren, too. After twenty-four year, he has never given up the love he has for Susan. And even though Calla’s romance is the focus of this book, Wren’s really got to me. Like, this book is easily the book that made me cry the most in 2018. Without question. Happy tears, sad tears, I never want this book to end tears.

And you all know this is a romance book, so obviously Wren had to take a hot, thirty-one-year-old, pilot under his wing. And Calla and him start out with such an enemies to lovers plotline as soon as he picks her up to fly her to her father. And he obviously lives next-door to her father. And their paths are forced to cross constantly throughout Calla’s visit while she gets to finally know her father. And you all, I was weak for it. Also, this has the “trapped in the cabin in the woods” trope and I was screaming with heart eyes.

“Just don’t make the same mistake I did and fall in love with one of those pilots.”

Good Lord, I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but Jonah is honestly the type of guy that I personally like and am attracted to. And I feel kind of gross saying it, because he’s very much a “manly man” but not in a toxic masculine way, but in a “let me chop wood and put it on the fire we have going so I can cook for you” type way. I don’t know. I’m such a hot mess over this book. But I’m just saying that I’ve read 110 books this year, and Jonah is the only fictional dude character that I would personally let get it. Goodbye.

But there is so much to love about Calla, too! Not only does she have empathy, and the courage to let a man who she has felt abandoned by her entire life in, but she’s also sure of herself and her worth. Also, she and her best friend run a lifestyle blog, and I loved every mention of it. From adding hyperlinks last minute, to finding deals every holiday season, to trying your hardest to take the perfect picture for Instagram. Like, it was all so relatable and it truly was the cherry on this already amazing sundae. And I feel like in general, I personally just had a lot of similarities to Calla. Also, just because I’m apparently an open book in this review, my dad is the same age as Wren. So, all the extra feels.

And the overall message of this book is so important and so beautiful. We have to let people live the life that they want to live. We don’t have to agree, but we can always be supportive and try to be empathetic. I try not to talk about my personal life too much, but a lot of you know that cancer is something that I’ve chosen to center my life around, and it’s so important to let the person that is diagnosed choose what is best for them. And, this book is just so heartbreakingly beautiful. Because that’s really all life is; choice after choice after choice. And each and every single one completely alters our life’s path. But controlling our feelings is something entirely different. And the connections we choose to make, too early or too late, is everything.

“You should have called him. He should have called you. Your mom should never have left. Wren should have left Alaska for you. Who the hell knows what’s right, and what it would have led to, but it doesn’t matter because you can’t change any of that.”

This book also shines a spotlight on found families and platonic love, too. This book really is just all about the different kinds of love in the world, really. The love between family, between friends, and between communities. I feel so sappy, but this book just really blew me and my expectations away.

And even though this book was close to perfect in my eyes, it did have two elements that I didn’t enjoy. The first being just the general talk about beauty and what it means to be society’s standard of beauty. Calla gets a lot of shit from Jonah about the way she looks, and that’s something that has happened to me my entire life. And I get it from both sides of the spectrum: From dudes quizzing me with basic biology 101 questions because they can’t believe the degree I have, to my ex giving me shit because I can’t just roll out of bed and feel comfortable going places around town with them. We want girls to look a certain way, but we also want to make them feel bad for putting the time into looking that way. I don’t know. I’m getting so off topic but basically, I’m saying people have treated me the way Jonah treated Calla’s beauty in this book, and I don’t like it. And good Lord, did I hate the nickname “Barbie” so much. But I was living for Jonah constantly being proven wrong on his assumptions and prejudices. Girls are beautiful with no makeup or with a full face of makeup, one doesn’t erase the other. The only thing that matters is what the girl feels comfortable with, and what makes them happy. Also, make up can be really expensive, so show some damn respect.

My only other complaint is Calla’s mother, Susan, and her treatment of Simon. Susan does a lot of hurtful things in this book. And Simon is like the best character in all of literature, so it feels extra bad. Like, who paints someone’s bookshelves when they aren’t home? Like, I don’t know. I really liked Wren, but I honestly disliked Susan, which I feel like will be an unpopular opinion, but it’s honestly how I felt. Also, Simon deserves the entire galaxy and all the stars within it!

Overall, I just loved this. The setting was absolutely perfect and so very atmospheric. I loved the romance more than any word combination I could come up with. I loved the message of living your life to the fullest, and the theme of found families always being better than family of origin. I just loved The Simple Wild and I believe with my whole heart that it will make my best of 2018 list come this December. And again, this book felt very personal to me, but I recommend it to everyone with my entire soul. And, friends, don’t waste your life on wishes; if you want something – go for it, always. Life is short, but it’s never too late to go after your dreams and fight for something you love. Love can be so messy and so complicated, but it’s always worth it.

Trigger and content warnings for abandonment, terminal disease, talk of cancer, some weird comments about body and weight that made me a little uncomfortable, and loss of a loved one.

The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker is not just a book. It’s an experience that you will never forget. This book just made it in my top 5 reads this year with its complexity and beautiful writing.
It’s just all clicked for me. Set in the wilderness of Alaska this story captivated me from the beginning till the very end.

At first glance, Calla has the perfect life, but when you take a closer look it’s slowly unraveling at the seams. She just lost her job and her current relationship just ran its course when she gets a phone call. A life-changing phone call. Her estranged father is sick so she’s asked to return to where she was born to see him. Although she holds a boatload of resentment towards her father, with the guidance of her mother and stepfather, she decides to make the journey to Bangor, Alaska, where her father runs an aviation business.

Once she arrives she embarks on a life-changing adventure and not only finds her way back to her father but also changes as a person.

This book, in my opinion, is a perfect mix of women’s fiction and contemporary romance. And don’t even get me started on the romance sigh. Jonah—Viking God, a pilot for her dad. From the moment they meet, they develop a hate to love kind of relationship. There is no love lost between these two at first. I loved their banter and the slow build up as they fell for each other. They are the epitome of opposite attracts and you can’t help but ask yourself can there be a future for these two? Or will they crash and burn just like Calla’s parents did many moons ago.

“…it can’t lead anywhere, so what’s the point? I’m going back to Toronto, where I belong, and he’s staying here in Alaska, where he belongs.”

I fell in love with every single character through this incredible story. K.A. Tucker gave me Alaska, I was there with Calla, during her self-discovering and opening up to the complete unknown. I was there with her to uncover what life really is about. It’s such a simple yet magnificent way of life out there, in Alaska, and one I didn’t know much about till I read this book.

I’m a long time fan of K.A. Tucker’s work and I’m happy to say The Simple Wild is my absolute new favorite by her. It’s a breathtaking, stunning, and unique journey. It’s so simple, yet everything. My heart fluttered as I read and once I finished the very last page, I immediately asked myself—What now? How will I move on?—and I wanted to start rereading immediately.

The Simple Wild has left me breathless. This superbly-written story is quite possibly K.A. Tucker's most moving book to date as it is much more than just your typical romance. It is truly a soul-searching journey for Calla Fletcher and both the man she is about to lose and the man she has just found.

What I find so damn extraordinary time and again is how the Author masterfully eases me into her words right from the start. With a heartbreaking prologue, I was beyond intrigued to see how the actions of Susan and Wren Fletcher would affect their daughter 24 years in the future. Calla is a feisty if albeit a bit spoiled 26 year old, and her decision about visiting her absent father in the wilds of Alaska is quite a shock to both her and those who love her. But her mother Susan and the ever-patient stepfather in Simon provide our heroine with the guidance and support she needs to face her past in order to realize her future.

The sky cowboy and the fashion instagrammer. Oh my. Despite their very rocky first impressions of one another, there was this definitive spark between Calla and Jonah, her father's right-hand man. You could just tell something was there between them despite his penchant for calling her Barbie and she referring to him as a Yeti. Talk about a fish out of water. Calla was not in her element being in the oft-times barren part of Alaska. But I admired her willingness to try for Wren. To 'suffer' through being without the comforts of her life back in Toronto. Despite it being tough for her, she proved she truly was her father's daughter and could handle most that came her way.

The Author gives us a birds-eye view of a part of the world we don't often see. Getting to witness through Calla's eyes, the beauty that is Alaska was a true added bonus for me. The wilderness backdrop to both Wren's deterioration and the burgeoning romance between Calla and Jonah could not have been more perfect. Calla was truly reborn in her native land in spite of herself and as she flew in the small planes that are part of her father's company, Alaska Wild, you could feel her spirit soar just as high.

This glorious story took me through a myriad of emotions. The wickedly subtle humor that is evident on almost every page was sharp and kept me smiling through the tougher scenes. The heart-wrenching last quarter of the book had me in tears more than once as realizations come to the forefront and old wounds are finally healed. My soul was full, though, as secondary characters, particularly Aggie and Mabel and the always caring Simon, continued to be the strength Calla needed as Wren continued to fade. The people of these small villages in 'the middle of the middle of nowhere' showed such hope in the face of adversity I couldn't help but admire them. Much like Calla finally realized after her time there.

K.A. Tucker continues to give us stories that are unique, well-researched and full of heart. The road to one's happiness is never what one might seem and with The Simple Wild, Calla proves that time and again. Her desire for happy in the world she left looks much different in the world she discovers and I'm quite pleased at how it all concluded.

The Simple Wild is a jewel of a read and one I will happily recommend. This is a definitely a 5+ star book and a story I will revisit often.

I got so emotional reading about Calla reuniting with her dad. Even through his blunders, they both feel so much and their relationship feels authentic. She’s angry. He’s thoughtless. They both love each other so much. Seeing her become a part of his life in Alaska when she arrives and begins to open up is so lovely.

The romance is tumltuous, and at times I didn’t like Jonah. He’s judgemental and rude, and I love that Calla gets her revenge. Their romance does progress quite quickly once it begins, but their sex scenes are hot hot hot. And they have their share of sweet and serious scenes to balance it all. Thinking back to my thoughts whilst reading is reminding me how much I really did enjoy them.

I’ve read one of K.A. Tucker’s books before and didn’t enjoy it. Not even close. But this book? This. Book. I enjoyed this one. The writing style felt honest and modern, youthful and relatable. I loved seeing a Canadian setting (for part of the book at least). That doesn’t happen often.

I had to remove one star because the book takes a very judgemental stance towards millennials, and I found it offputting. Yes, Calla does have a very comfortable life and she spends frivolously. But as the set-up works for both her and her mom at the beginning of the book, I don’t see the purpose in judging her. She is a product of her mom, and her lifestyle growing up. It also felt a little judgemental of people who run blogs, but I’m hoping it was intended to show that there’s more to life than social media.

"The Simple Wild" is an emotional and romantic story. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. It was a bit open ended, but I don’t mind too much.

I am giving The Simple Wild a 4/5 stars. This book follows Calla Fletcher, a banker and lifestyle blogger living in Toronto. Under expected circumstances, she goes to the Alaskan wilderness to see her father for the first time in 24 years. In the process, she starts to rediscover herself and also fall down the same hole her parents had decades before. I hadn't expected much from this book, but it did actually deliver a very enjoyable story. The relationship was relatively predictable, but I think that's fine in this instance. The witty banter between all of the characters was fantastic and highly entertaining. I loved reading about Calla's experiences in Alaska with Jonah and her dad, especially with Wren's illness haunting them all. Overall, I would recommend this book, especially to people looking for a cute romance that is very based in a wilderness setting.

Lately, some of my usual go-to authors haven't been hitting the mark for me. I was a bit apprehensive going into this one because I didn't want to chance that happening with Tucker too. Alas, that did not happen. This book definitely did not disappoint.

This book isn't just about a girl thrown into a life and place she is unfamiliar with. It's more about relationships, and not just the slow burn of a relationship that Calla ends up finding herself in. 

Every character in this book is as important as the next. Each character has a relationship, or budding relationship, with another character. Each one is unique and essential to this story. While the story centers around Calla, Jonah, and Calla's dad, the supporting characters hold each other up in ways I hadn't imagined. 

I love a good story of self discovery. This one is definitely a great example of that. Each character learns so much about themselves in this book, which helps them grow as people and in their relationships. 

This book is full of an array of emotions. I found mine all over the place throughout this book. From sadness, to emptiness, to happiness, to despair. I was a big ball of raw emotion from start to finish.

Sometimes you just need a book that allows you to escape from the daily life things and enjoy a story about family, falling in love and growing up. That's exactly what The Simple Wild was for me - and I loved it so much. K.A. Tucker's latest contemporary romance novel is exactly the kind of book that I want to read - and then reread as soon as I've finished it because I can't imagine leaving these characters behind. Suffice it to say, I really enjoyed this book.

Some of that may be personal for me because I live in the Pacific Northwest (not Alaska though), and spent a pretty good amount of time with my dad in the copilot's seat of his Piper Turbo Arrow growing up. I am all too familiar with the way pilots obsess over weather patterns and the small planes that they meticulously care for and fly. So it's not a stretch for me to relate to the people who run and fly the planes of Alaska Wild, the business run by Calla's father in the book.

I loved these characters and how K.A. Tucker wasn't afraid to shy away from some difficult emotional subjects - loss, estrangement, guilt, love, personal growth - all find a way to be relevant and important to the storyline. I find that with a lot of contemporary romance - we typically get the tropey romantic aspect but loose out on the bigger story at play or we have to sacrifice a well written book for cliched, and again tropey, romance that has me eyerolling so much I need my head set straight. While Tucker does employ the hate to love trope (my favorite of them all) she does it well and with very minimal eyerolling on my part and a believable love story that I totally could get behind.

I thoroughly enjoyed The Simple Wild and will happily recommend it to my friends who enjoy contemporary romance. K.A. Tucker's books will be auto buys for me from now on - and of all the contemporary romance I've read lately this is one of my favorites.

K.A. Tucker gives new meaning to the word yeti.

After Calla receives a call about her father, whom she hasn’t seen since she was two, she makes her way to the Alaskan wilderness to get to know him. What she doesn’t expect to find is an angry yeti bush pilot to butt heads with. Will the simple wild be to much for the city girl to handle?

The Simple Wild has got to be up there in my list of favorite romance novels and one of my favorite K.A. Tucker books. She managed to take two totally different characters and perfectly form it into a realistic romance. I love how the simple wild sticks out from the same repetitive themes. I rarely see romance novels about bush pilots and its great to see a different theme that stuck out. This novel really has everything. Humor, heartache and romance all put together in a hard to put down and irresistible story. It makes you question what is out there and what you could be missing.

This is one of these books that you'll stay with you forever.It was such a beautiful, captivating and unique story.I felt so connected to Calla it was like I was her!

The Simple Wild isn't a simple romance it's so much more.Prepare yourself and go blind into this one, you will have so many feelings.It's one of these stories that will touch you and it will bring you many emotions.

The romance was perfect, it was so entertained watching them battle most of the time.I love their journey.Like I said I'm in love with Calla I want to be her best friend, I was so connected with her.Jonah intrigued me a lot and I really like him.

I wish I could read it again from the beginning, it means so much to me!It goes to my top favorites for this year and it's an unforgettable story!

I don’t know how she does it. But Ka Tucker does it again. She is able to make yet another story that pulls you from page one and doesn’t let you go until the very end.

There are so many elements to the story that I could relate to. But what I related to most was the relationship between Callie and Wren. That father-daughter relationship is rough and the raw and rage that she feels for him at the beginning of her time in Alaska I think speaks volumes to those who understand what it’s like to have an absentee parent.

And there has to be a romance element because Love gives us something to root for. Jonah is definitely a jerk a lot of the time but considering what he’s been through and what he does it makes sense why he would want to push Callie away. At times this love story does take center stage, I don’t think it’s the point that Tucker is trying to make. I think she wants us to not take to long to say the things to the people that mean something to us and to not hold on to anger because all it does is turn into guilt if something was to happen.

The story is gripping, enticing. Tucker is a true story teller that can create characters that you love along with a story that will make you want to read it over and over again.

A definite must read.

This is my first experience reading a book by this author and it won’t be the last. I love this story. I laughed out loud, I cringed, I shed a tear, and then I swooned. This will be added to one of the books I recommend to anyone who wants to read a great feel good book.