Say You Still Love Me is my first book by K.A Tucker. What a romance story that will pull on your heart strings!

This is about a second chance romance that pulls from two characters that are worlds apart. Piper comes from a world of privilege, money, and high end class. Kyle was born into a world of chaos, crime, and poverty trying to make ends meet.

Piper and Kyle end up at the same summer camp as teenagers and fall in love. The summer is cut short and Kyle breaks Piper's heart completely.

13 years later Piper is leaving her office for the day and she sees her long lost love Kyle. The story alternates between past and present between the two. Tucker does an amazing job showing us rather then telling us the beautiful romance behind Kyle and Piper.

It's sexy, romantic, and sweet! I really enjoyed this one and am glad that I was finally able to read a book by Tucker!!

4 stars!

Thank you to Netgalley and Atria for the arc in exchange for an honest review.

Publication date: 8/6/19
Published to GR: 8/5/19

Say You Still Love ME by K.A. Tucker is the first book that I have read by her but it won't be my last. Jumping from the present to the past and seeing how the story unfolds was a perfect for this book. It's a classic tale of girl meets boy, they fall in love during the summer, and end up not seeing each other until years later. They meet again when Piper discovers Kyle is working in her building as a new security guard. Do they still have feelings for each other? Can they make it work again? Can she trust him with her heart? Will they get a second chance to explore their love? This was such a fun summer read! I recommend grabbing this one on Tuesday August 6th!

Say You Still Love Me is a second chance romance you won't forget. Be prepared for the extra slow burn and lots of time reflecting on summer camp, but Piper and Tucker's story is worth the wait.

I just loved Say You Still Love Me! KA Tucker is one of my favorite authors and her latest novel did NOT disappoint. I am such a fan of the second-chance romance, and I always enjoy a childhood love story. This one was SO sweet, gave me all the warm & fuzzies, and honestly, I would’ve loved 100 more pages of this story! The summer camp setting makes this one the perfect summer read. I thoroughly enjoyed this one & truly didn’t want it to be end. I would definitely recommend to romance fans.

I'm a big K.A. Tucker fan so reading this book was very enjoyable. It did not however win me over completely.

I loved all of the "past" chapters. The scenes and scenarios were written perfectly; it was like living out your own summer camp/first love experience. The pacing was great, and made the change between past and present fluid and enjoyable. The past/present narrative even made the storyline a touch suspenseful. Turning the pages was never a chore.

I wanted some more from the present though. There did not seem to be much depth to Piper and Kyle's relationship. Not enough getting to know you (again) situations. I wanted the romance amped up. The ending was rushed and flat. The number of supporting characters became cumbersome at times.

4 Stars
I'm a big fan of Author K.A. Tucker. She writes beautiful and heartfelt stories that brings characters to real life and keeps you addicted to the pages of the story. And Say You Still Love Me is another fantastic read from this author.

Piper Calloway is the girl from the "right side of the track" - she's from a wealthy family, who never has to worry about what bill to pay next, or how much she should save, or where her next meal is coming from. When she was sixteen, her mom makes her get a summer job as a camp counselor - saying it will be the best summer of her life. At first, the thought is appalling to her, but it ends up changing her life forever.

Kyle Miller, is from the "wrong side of the tracks" - he works every summer at the camp and that's when he meets Piper Calloway. They spent time the summer falling for each other and when an event happens - their relationship ends, until thirteen years later.

Jump to thirteen years later, Kyle and Piper meet again and they are both grown, but their summer love back when they were teens is still there. But can they make it work after hearts were broken?

What I loved about the book is the back and forth from their past to present. It seamlessly takes you back to share their story when they were 16/17 years old at summer camp and back to present day. There were a few surprising twists towards the end, that I did not see coming! Again, another fabulous read by Ms. Tucker!

I read this because I loved The Simple Wild. It was a fun, nostalgic story that could be read in one setting. However I did not like how disabilities were treated here. Ashley and Eric clearly still liked each other even in the current but as soon as Eric is shown as disabled we've stopped the romance talk. Interabled relationships are possible (see a famous one on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdomP1JqhnyBQGaBmfDl4KQ or Stephen Hawking). Given how few disabled people are shown in books, when you do see them don't portray them with the most negative stereotypes about them like they can't possibly be in a relationship. All the romance talk stopped as soon as we know Eric is disabled. So i'm really conflicted on this book. I thought it was such a fun lovely story up to the end but in the end I don't like how this reinforces the stereotypes about disabled people so I'm afraid I can't recommend it.

Thank you @atriabooks @netgalley for the advanced copy of Say You Still Love Me!
This one is on sale August 6, 2019!

I finished this one Friday evening, it’s a story about a first love and second chance romance that is sure to make fans of Christina Lauren, RS Grey and Sally Thorne happy. I enjoyed this book, it kept me entertained - but I don’t think it’s my favorite of KA Tucker’s.

There are a lot of things going on in this book, and to me it felt like a lot of issues were glossed over. For some reason I must have been in a pickier reading mood and really wanted a little more depth to both Piper and Kyle’s story. The nostalgic element of sleep away camp is fun though, and I enjoyed the supporting cast. It’s a story about first love, second chances and friendship. Readers of this genre should enjoy it.
PS it’s a romance and there is on page intimacy 🔥🔥🔥.
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Guys, I do think though that my feelings about this book are a case of it’s me, not the book. I know a lot of people have and will really enjoy this one. I did too, but I can’t say it’s a favorite. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Wow, where to begin with this one. It was sooo good! It just proves why Tucker is one of my go to contemporary romance writers. Her writing just pulls me in and doesn’t let go.

This is a tale of girl from a prominent family meets a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, falls in love hard only to lose that love for 13 years. Sounds good right? Well, it certainly was. The chapters switch between Now and Then. Leading us back in time to her time during Summer Camp as a counselor and meeting Kyle. I love this! We got to see Piper and Kyle’s time together during the summer at camp. Their interactions are just how I would imagine it would be. Awe first loves… You fall hard and fast, and that it just what these two did too. It was intense but sweet. However it didn’t on such great terms. Now 13 years later, they find themselves back in each others lives.

Piper Calloway is one those characters that I just wanted to root for from the beginning. She works at her families company and is constantly is trying to prove herself that she can make it in a business world where men are the top dogs. And boy do they give her a run for her money too. There were two particularly that I would love to have been able to smack up the side the head. But Piper was making her way through it all. Her stability and strength made me like her so much!

Kyle Miller might have been from the other side of the tracks, but he seemed to have been able to get his life together after summer camp and from it sounded like it, it wasn’t easy. He is working security and seemed to be doing well. Now working at the same building as Piper, they were bound to run into one another, and that was his plan anyway.

At first these two seemed distant, I mean Kyle acted like he didn’t even remember her. Ugh. A lot had happened in those years since camp, secrets seem to have a way of coming back into play. It definitely made it a little more difficult than Piper and Kyle just falling back into each others arms but it was clear that the chemistry and love was still there. It was amazing to follow these two on their way back to each other. A perfect story of second chances.

Say You Still Love Me is a great light an summery read. It was a wonderful blend of first loves and second chances and I enjoyed every bit of it!

K.A. Tucker has this amazing ability to bring all her characters to life. Until they feel like real people that you would know and love and want to be friends with. Characters that you feel for on a real emotional level. People you can relate to and most of all, want the very best for.

Her latest release Say You Still Love Me, is just as spectacular, emotional and moving as all her previous novels. With characters that you instantly like, love and most of all, connect with.

I devoured this and was rooting for Piper and Kyle the whole time. Caught up in the then and the now and loving every heart wrenching, heart warming second of it.

I ate it up and even though I never wanted it to end, I was completely satisfied with the very real feeling ending. It wasn't all rainbows and sunshine for these two and so their story needed to end realistically and I am happy to say that while it was a happy ending, it was also a very believable one and I love that most about her stories. Things aren't always perfect and you can see that all her couples are going to have to work hard to make things work but you also know that they will and I truly do adore that about her stories.

This was another outstanding read that I can't recommend enough for both fans and new readers alike.

Let me start by saying I am a sucker for a good story about love and second chances. K.A Tucker’s Say You Still Love was all that and so much more! It’s a story that takes span over 13 years bouncing back to the camp where it all began and the office building where it could start again.

The two protagonists Piper and Kyle grew up very differently but they’ll always have that summer at Camp Wawa in common. Situations separated them but 13 years later is their hope for a second chance? You know I was rooting for it!! Piper and Kyle are very different characters but Tucker bonds them together perfectly. I was rooting for them from the moment of their reunion even if Kyle pretended not to know her (rude Kyle).

They’re very likeable characters and truly you just want what’s best for them. I read this book very quickly because it was that good and I was that invested in these characters. I wanted to know why they broke up when everything seemed to be so perfect. Kyles wrong side of the track bad boy paired with Pipers rich girl with her job was a typical love story pairing but the author was able to give them more dimension as the story progressed.

This is my first book from Tucker but definitely won’t be my last! The book brought all the feels of young love and that innocence of it (though some of those love scenes were quite steamy for summer camp). I also loved watched Piper evolve from an awkward girl at camp to a strong powerful woman running a huge company!

Say You Still Love Me comes out tomorrow 8/6 so if you haven’t already added it to your tbr you need too! Thank to @atriabooks and @netgalley for the advanced read #partner

I’m always a sucker for a good second chance romance, so when I heard K.A. Tucker’s Say You Still Love Me featured one, I knew I had to read it. And it was everything I love in a second chance romance too. It has two incredibly likeable main characters that I loved, both individually and as a couple, a dual timeline that give us glimpses both of when they first met and fell in love and when they reunited years later, and, finally, a bit of mystery as we gradually learn what happened to end their relationship all those years ago.

Kyle and Piper were both such great characters, equally likeable as adults and as teenagers. I especially enjoyed following Piper, who as an adult, is now a successful businesswoman preparing to take her place as the head of her father’s company as soon as he retires. It’s fun to watch her transform from those awkward teenage years to a competent and confident corporate VP, doing whatever it takes to earn the respect of her father’s longtime employees. I also had a major soft spot for Kyle, whose family clearly comes from the wrong side of the tracks. He’s practically the only member of his family who hasn’t been in jail, and his family’s illustrious history dogs him everywhere he goes.

The use of a dual timeline was one of my favorite parts of Say You Still Love Me. In addition to watching Kyle and Piper interact as adults in the corporate world, I was a huge fan of the flashbacks to summer camp where Kyle and Piper first met as teen counselors. I loved the nostalgic and almost magical vibe that the summer camp atmosphere always seems to provide, as well as the fact that Piper and Kyle were just so sweet together. Even though they come from opposite sides of the tracks, all of their differences just melt away at camp and they’re just a boy and a girl falling in love for the first time.

The biggest draw for me, however, was the wanting to know what exactly happened to break them up after that summer since they had seemed so perfect for each other. The answer to that question is a slow burning one that gradually reveals itself as we move through the story, and it really made what was already a great story even more compelling since Piper hints repeatedly that Kyle broke her heart.

There’s so much more I could say about Say You Still Love Me, but I’m just going to leave it at – if you enjoy second chance romances, the romance between Kyle and Piper is one you’re going to love!

Say You Still Love Me by K.A. Tucker is a second chance romance between two people from very different worlds. In their teens, Kyle and Piper both attend summer camp as counselors and quickly fall into an intense romantic relationship. When Piper's father finds out that his daughter is dating the child of a criminal from the wrong side of the tracks he demands that Piper end the relationship immediately. When she fails to follow his orders and finds herself getting into compromising situations that land her in a load of trouble, the summer comes to an abrupt end and Piper doesn't hear from Kyle again. That is until he reappears thirteen years later as a security guard for the building her family owns and in which she is the VP of the company. Yet, when Piper approaches Kyle he seems to have forgotten her name... and their romance entirely.

I really wanted to love this book. I had heard many good things about this author's previous novel, The Simple Wild, and was expecting her most recent novel to be similarly good. And it was, but nothing more. The story alternates between the past when Kyle and Piper were teens at summer camp and current times when they are reconnecting after thirteen years. The current timeline was very dull. Chock full with the day to day luxurious life of Piper and her job as VP of a huge real estate company. At first I thought this was just a slow burn type of romance and I was totally down with that. Well, it was a slow burn all right. So slow the flame nearly snuffed itself right out. At the 40% mark of the book there was still nothing happening between Piper and Kyle. Instead we were learning about her job and family dynamics. The flashbacks were the only element carrying this story along and I found I enjoyed those chapters infinitely more even though it had turned this adult romance into more of a YA romance. The scenes between the two MC's at camp were steamy and pretty graphic, while the adult portion was the polar opposite. Even after Piper and Kyle's adult story finally starts moving along the steamier parts are pretty much grazed right over. This isn't a huge deal to me but I was a bit surprised since the scenes involving them as teens were so detailed.

There were definitely elements of this story that I liked quite a bit. Piper is snarky and smart and I really liked her character. I liked seeing how she handled being a woman in a position of power in a male dominated world. She's down to earth without being unrealistically so and I really enjoyed that, too. I liked that Kyle was a bit different than your average teen love interest with his lip piercing, faux hawk, and tattoos. The chemistry between the two of them was palpable. I just wish there had been more of that chemistry in their adult relationship. Several times I found myself laughing out loud. The characters were definitely witty and interesting. Unfortunately, I felt like I was waiting for the entirety of the book for something to happen and when it did it kind of fell flat. I enjoyed my time with this novel but it was nothing to write home about.

There was very little diversity, a gay couple was mentioned once or twice and the story features a disabled MC, but that's really it. There are themes of divorce, absent parents, cheating, underage drinking, loss of virginity, and some derogatory comments towards women and the people who work for the wealthy. Nothing I would consider majorly triggering.

Say You Still Love Me is a love story about two people from different sides of the tracks.  The two fall in love at summer camp at age 17 and are then separated for 13 years.  The author builds out the background on the separation by alternating chapters between past and present. Although I am not a fan of this particular writing construct, I found that the author was able to use if effectively to build suspense without the usual frustration of switching between time periods.  The authors best writing comes through in the chapters  detailing the main characters' adventures at summer camp.  Tucker's writing here hit enough nerves of familiarity that I’m sure she will have  most readers fondly revisiting their late teens.

Although character development is somewhat weak, the two main characters are likable enough in both time periods that I was rooting for them to get back together throughout. This hope holds the book together despite what felt to me like an endless parade of implausible circumstances used to create both the cause as well as the resolution of the couple’s separation.  Despite this, I admit the book writing was good enough that I stuck with it to the end.  It is an easy read with enough “feel good” moments to keep romance fans engaged.

2.5 stars

Say You Still Love Me is a nostalgic trip down memory lane with your first love. At first I was skeptical with the plot and the over-use of descriptions like “heels clicking”, but I kept reading and ended up loving the book! I thought the alternating past/present chapters were unnecessary but as I got further into the story I didn’t mind them as much. Overall it was a fun, light-hearted read and I will definitely be recommending to my fellow romance fans.

How many of us would jump at a second chance with a lost love, or wish we had that opportunity at some point in our lives? What would we be willing to risk to see that second chance through?

Piper Calloway is being groomed to take over her father's multibillion-dollar real estate development firm, if he's ever willing to retire. She definitely knows her stuff and can go toe-to-toe with any man in the business, but many believe she's only risen through the ranks of the company because she's the boss's daughter. Since she's beautiful and 29, and a woman, many aren't willing to take her seriously—at their own peril.

As if battling for respect from one of her father's right-hand men isn't hard enough to deal with on a daily basis, she also needs to work closely with David, her ex-fiancé, who is a fellow VP at the firm. He's handsome and intelligent—and he knows it—but Piper's father still hasn't gotten over their ending their engagement, since David is both surrogate son and sidekick. David is just biding his time until Piper realizes the error of her ways.

One day, in the midst of all her daily chaos, she sees a face she hasn't seen since the summer she was 16 years old. Kyle Miller, the handsome, cocky boy who stole her heart when they were summer camp counselors 13 years ago—and then broke her heart when the summer ended and they went their separate ways—has grown into an immensely handsome man. She's never been able to find him on social media, never heard from him again—what is he doing in her building?

"Because, even after all these years, with college and boyfriends, and my career and my engagement to David, Kyle Miller has always been a sliver in my heart, a shadow in my thoughts. A lingering 'what if' that I have never been able to truly shake."

It turns out Kyle is now a security guard in her building, and at first, he didn't seem to even know her name. But when he admits that was an act, he also admits he'd like to keep their relationship formal. Too many years have passed, she's nearly the CEO of the company that owns the building in which he works, and he's just a security guard. Once again, they're on either side of the financial divide, and Kyle would like to keep it that way.

Piper can't seem to shake the feelings that Kyle has reignited. Was this just a summer relationship between two high school kids, not destined to go anywhere, or did it have the potential to be so much more? Why did Kyle cut her off completely, change his name, and disappear, leaving her wondering whether the feelings he told her he had were genuine or just a way to get what he wanted that summer? Can a relationship succeed between two people who are so different that forces will try to keep them apart?

K.A. Tucker's new book, Say You Still Love Me, explores the idea of a second chance years later, when so much has changed, but the people are still the same at their core. Can a teenage relationship from summer camp blossom into something serious, all these years later? Can a relationship in which the participants are so far apart financially ever work? Are there secrets which can keep them apart even now?

The narration shifts between when Piper and Kyle first meet at camp 13 years ago and present day. It also shifts between Piper's attempts to understand Kyle's disappearance and his distance since then and her struggles to succeed outside her father's shadow. It's an exploration of friendship, first love, family, and the secrets that threaten to destroy it all, or which incite us to want to throw it all away.

I read Tucker's last book, The Simple Wild, earlier this year and fell completely in love with it. I was really excited to get the opportunity to read Say You Still Love Me before it was published. I really enjoy the way Tucker writes, and her combination of emotion, humor, and sex is really appealing.

I definitely enjoyed this book, and loved the concept (especially having gone to summer camp for 10 seasons and seen many couples from that time married now), but I honestly could have done without the narration from camp. I felt that part of the story dragged and took far too long to tell. I understood Tucker was setting the scene but it seemed to just be the same things over and over again.

More and more, I'm becoming a fan of rom-coms, and Tucker is definitely an author I'll turn to again and again. Say You Still Love Me was an enjoyable, emotional read that brought a tear to my eye.

NetGalley and Atria Books provided me a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review. Thanks for making it available!

This book publishes August 6, 2019.

Forced to attend summer camp when she is sixteen, the last thing Piper expects is to love it, much less a boy. But love she does, both Camp Wawa and Kyle, a guy who is the opposite of her in every way.

Thirteen years later, Piper sees Kyle again. Now, instead of wearing the camp uniform, he’s in a security uniform and working the entrance of the building where she works–a building her father’s business, which Piper is expected to take over, owns.

K A Tucker has a couple of romances going on here: opposites attract and second-chance. You see the first one during the flashback parts of the book, when Piper recalls those weeks at Camp Wawa. When she talks about going to college, Kyle talks about getting some sort of hourly job so he can survive. She complains (granted, inwardly) about her father buying her a Volvo while he drives a car with parts of it held together with duct tape.

The second chance aspect comes when Piper sees him again, and all those feelings dart at her like shards of glass from a broken window. Kyle broke her heart, but of course, it’s never that simple in a K A Tucker book.

I enjoyed getting to know Piper and Kyle. I liked the corporate dynamic where Piper exists, watching her truly earn the role of heir apparent. I enjoyed watching her interact with her estranged parents (although one mystery involving her family is fairly easily solved). I enjoyed watching her reconnect with Kyle as a woman, rather than a love-struck teenager. I enjoyed the adult Piper and the adult Kyle finding common ground and rediscovering each other.

The camp flashbacks kind of throw off the story’s rhythm, though. Some of them help develop the plot, but most of them get in the way. It’s almost as if there are two books going on here: a young adult opposites-attract first romance and an adult opposites-attract second-chance romance. I preferred the latter.

Even with the occasional weaknesses, Say You Still Love Me resonates. People are people, and we can’t let our differences separate us. We need to trust, to believe, and to be open.

Let me know what you think of this one. Hit up the comments, and tell me, please.

4.5 Stars

This was a highyly enjoyable read that unbelievably was able to pack SO MANY of my favorite tropes into one story! It's a second chance love story with characters from different social classes. It's an office romance and also the perfect blend of young adult and contemporary romance as there is back and forth from the past to the present.

There are so many levels to this book. It's light and funny in some parts, deeep and emotional in others and seriously sexy as well. I can't get enough of young love! It is seriously the sweetest thing ever and watching 16 year old Piper and 17 year old Kyle fall in love was EVERYTHING! There were secret looks, hand holding, flirting and oh so much more! The setting of this story in a summer camp was just brilliant and gave it a reminiscent and wistful feel for my own childhood and I'm sure many others.

If it's one thing I know about KA Tucker, it's that she doesn't shy away from difficult topics in her books. Piper is now a rich and successful heroine who is about to take over a multi-billion dollar firm and Kyle is a security guard who works in the building. Obviously an unlikely pair but this author did an amazing job of tackling all the issues facing this couple who come from two different worlds. The way their love story unfolded felt realistic and they earned their HEA with the obstacles they had to overcome.

This book is also about friendship and I loved the camaraderie of this group of friends that stood the test of time. I get overly emotional whenever I read this author's books and this was no exception. The ending came as a surprise and while I didn't exactly love how the story played out towards the end, my heart felt ALL the regret and pain but also hopefulness and absolution.

Another heartbreakinlgy beautiful romance from KA Tucker that I more than recommend!

4.5 Stars
Contemporary Romance
Heat Level: Moderate
POV: Dual
HEA

Alternating past and present, Say You Still Love Me tells the story of Kyle and Piper. They come from vastly different backgrounds and meet as camp counselors in their teens and again as adults. I felt joy and sadness in the parts at Camp Wawa. It was in these chapters that I felt the author soar and stretch. I was fully engrossed in new love and the exploration of pushing boundaries. I found myself longing to relive my youth and head to summer camp.

In the present I truly enjoyed the reconnection and that initial pull of second chances. While the dynamic of their relationship could have been cliched I found honesty and authenticity in the fact that either Kyle or Piper tried to change the other. Piper’s strength was a huge plus for me. I loved her fierce nature. Kyle was a kinds of sweet and dreamy.

While the present storyline was a little thin and at times didn’t hold my complete attention. In those moments it wasn’t that anything was missing, more that I found myself longing for the sweet spot of discovery found in the past. Say You Still Love Me is a great read for those who love second chances and sweet romance.

This was a sweet nostalgic read that brought me back to my younger Summer Camp days! Oh the feeling of first loves and major crushes. Kyle & Piper's story is exactly that - it is set both in the past and present. I absolutely loved the flashbacks to their past when it takes the reader back to their initial meeting and Summer of love and teenage antics.

Kyle is your typical teenage badboy - devastatingly handsome and charming, and he sweeps Piper off of her feet immediately. I fell for him. He was genuine, bold and fearless, and pulled Piper out of her more conservative shell. Piper is smitten with him from the beginning, and as their story unfolds, I could not wait to read about allll the details of that Summer they spent together. KA Tucker did a fantastic job of keeping me flipping the pages frantically while wanting to find out exactly what happened in their past. I had so many questions that led them to their present situation, and it was exhilarating every time a new chapter to the past appeared.

I will say that I found the present chapters to be a bit slower, and I wanted to fast forward to Kyle & Piper's days of young love and adventure. But the side characters kept the story fresh and moving, and new surprises came up that kept me committed to these characters and their story.

If you're a fan of young love, summer camp nostalgia and second chance romance, then this book is for you! Well done once again KA Tucker!