I love second chance romances and I've read K.A. Tucker before and enjoyed her writing. Although this book had both of those amazing elements, it took a lot of will power to finish. Not because the story or the writing wasn't good, but because it some parts dragged on.
The characters were on point and their emotional descriptions were beautifully done. Without a doubt, K.A. has an amazing gift with words!
I was dragging my feet reading this, and I'll admit, maybe my frame of mind isn't where it should be. I'm going to try to reread at another time and will update my review if I see it differently.
However this will not deter me in reading anything else K.A. Tucker, I fully intend to keep her on my "Always read" author list.
Also, I love the cover!!

Bless my ever loving KA Tucker heart - a second chance romance set a summer camp? You literally could not have signed me up fast enough for this! This is the fifth book by Tucker that I’ve read to date and think it may be my new favorite! Having grown up spending many summers away at an overnight camp, I was really excited about this premise and it absolutely lived up to my expectations!

Piper Calloway seems to have it all, an amazing job as a Senior Vice President at her father’s real estate development firm, a gorgeous penthouse apartment where she lives with her best friends and more money than she knows what to do with. However, Piper has to contend with the men who think she’s a spoiled tart who was only given her job because of her father and to make matters worse, her ex-fiancé is one of the men working for her. To really throw a wrench in her life, Piper bumps into her building's new security guard - the one and only boy who broke her heart at camp 13 years ago, never to be heard from again.

Tucker has a way of eliciting emotions in me like no one else and following Piper and Kyle's story back through time had me forgoing sleep and all other necessities just to see what happened next. In chapters alternating back 13 years and present day, Tucker does a masterful job at fleshing out the story in just the right amounts, piece by piece, until you are gasping for more. My only question standing is just how long do I have to wait for her next book?

First loves are hard to forget; especially when they break your heart. Piper and Kyle have first hand knowledge of this. Both counselors and in love at summer camp many years ago, Piper is shocked to see Kyle as a security guard at the building her family owns. Is it just a coincidence? Piper has never forgotten the boy she loved all those summers ago. The question is, has he? With alternating chapters between the past and the present, we get to see Piper and Kyle fall in love as teens and see what they're like as adults. KA Tucker never disappoints in making you feel all the things and this book is no different. Family, betrayal, and love are at the center of this book and I hope she continues some of the outer characters stories in different books as I would love to see more of Kyle, Piper and everyone else!

I loved this book. I loved how it went back and forth between the present and the past, and hinted at the past while in the present. It was incredibly well-written and well thought out. It was my first book by this author - but definitely won’t be my last.

I'm not a big romance reader but I've been dipping my toes in shallow water lately. Say You Still Love Me was a perfect book to convince me that I might actually be a fan of the romance genre! 😍

Synopsis: Piper Calloway is set to take over her family's successful business. But her love life suffers from late hours at work and her memories of the boy that might have been. When she was 16, Piper was a counselor at Camp Wawa where she fell deeply and seriously in love with Kyle. He's the one she's never been able to get over. But when he reenters her life over 10 years later, Piper has to figure out if first love should be left in the past or could it possibly be part of her future.

This book was overall FANTASTIC! I was slightly cringing at first reading about passionate teenage love BUT it was all written in such a way that it felt innocent and true and real. The best part of this story for me was that Piper was a successful, smart business woman. Her job was important and powerful and I loved that issues with her career were worked into the story line. She wasn't desperate for love. She spoke her mind to others. She had flaws and was sensitive and a good friend and I love seeing those dimensions to a character in a "fluff" book. The love story felt believable even if it was a bit rushed at times. The nostalgia of your first love was wonderfully captured but wasn't overly wistful. 👩‍❤️‍👨 I also really appreciated how the author wrote Piper's relationship with her father. She feared and respected him but also still had important and difficult conversations with him. This book took traditional tropes in fiction and twisted them slightly on their heads, making this novel feel fresh and unexpected.

I absolutely would recommend this book! All things considered it was a strong ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫/5 Stars for me.

I have mixed feelings about Say You Still Love Me. I liked it, but I didn't love it. As always, I loved K.A. Tucker's writing. I appreciated the emotion of it. There were just some things that didn't work for me personally.

Let's start with what worked for me. Like I said above, I loved the writing and the emotion of the story. I easily got caught up in the "Now" part of the story. I was curious about where Piper and Kyle's relationship would go with all their history. I loved the last part of the book after all the revelations. I loved the ending and how everything wrapped up.

Where this book lost me was all of the flashbacks. I am not the biggest fan of flashbacks used in books. Sometimes they work for me, most of the time they don't. I usually like the present better than the past and I just want to know what's going to happen, not be thrust back into what did happen. This book had a ton of flashbacks -- pretty much every other chapter. Just when I was getting into the present day story, I was pulled back to the past. I didn't really like either character in the past, so I didn't enjoy those flashbacks much. I was curious to know what happened to them, but I would have liked it to have just been a prologue or something. So basically, I loved half of this book and didn't really care for the other half.

5 lovely, charming, nostalgic stars for K.A. Tucker’s latest novel, Say You Still Love Me!

I adored this second chance romance between Piper and Kyle who first fell in love at summer camp when they were just teenagers. Despite their instant connection during that amazing summer at Camp Wawa, Piper hasn’t seen or heard from Kyle since. Now, thirteen years have passed and Piper, a VP at her father’s corporate real estate development firm, runs into the handsome new security guard who just turns out to be her first love. As feelings come rushing back, Piper is intent on reconnecting with Kyle despite his initial standoffish attitude. She’s determined to find out why he never contacted her after that whirlwind summer and why, after all this time, he’s come back into her life.

I loved everything about this book! The summer camp setting, the characters, and the build up of the story was excellent. The story is told in alternating timelines and we flash back and forth between present day and Summer 2006. Piper is such a strong female character, she’s a high powered VP in a working environment full of men who think she’s privileged, yet she’s determined, hard working, and aims to prove them wrong. Despite his rough upbringing, Kyle is a fun loving guy and he’s head over heels for Piper. I loved these two together, their romance was a slow burn and the build up was perfection.

Thank you to Netgalley and Atria Books for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Let’s just start by saying KA Tucker pulls you in from the very first chapter! Starting off in the present before heading back into the past for the next chapter and the pattern continues. It’s done so well that you don’t ever feel lost or confused about what is going on!

Piper and Kyle meet at summer camp and have an instant connection, but events happen that cause them to be separated and they don’t see each other for 13 years. When they do see each other again, they must work out if they can forgive each other and move on or if their relationship is better left in the past!

It’s not hard to love these characters, they quickly endear themselves to you. Piper is from privilege but trying not to let people know, whereas Kyle couldn’t be more opposite! But teenage hormones don’t let social status stop them. This book will take you right back to summers as teenager. It’s fun to reminisce about the camps and shenanigans I got up to as a teenager at camps. Although none quite so memorable as Kyle and Piper.

Kyle is so sweet, very caring, and I just loved him. He took such good care of Piper in the past and it’s obvious that even after all this time she’s still the one who makes his heart beat faster! Piper has grown into a woman not to be messed with, but yet cannot control or contain her emotions around her first love.

This book gave me all the feels and I loved every second of it! KA Tucker is fast becoming a favorite of mine!!!

I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I seriously LOVE K.A. Tucker. Her books are always amazing, and this book was no different.
This is a perfect summer read. Their relationship is serious relationship goals.
You won't regret reading this.

Say You Still Love Me is the perfect summer read. Nostalgic for summer camps gone by and first love gone wrong, Say You Still Love Me is a romantic home away from home.


Closure on the most painful relationship you've ever had...yes.
Answers to all the questions that sprouted in your heart as a result of no closure...yes.
Second chance romances with the "bad boy" who broke your heart...yes please.

Say You Still Love Me is Full of intense emotions. Sadness, longing, lust, and wonder are just the tip of the iceberg. Friendship, comradery, and love will consume the empty hollow places giving you the perfect amount of happily ever after.

Btw, I still think streaking with Eric would be fun!

2.5 stars

The book read like a YA to me - partly because of the back and forth timeline taking us to the characters as teenagers then, but it also felt YA in the now.

Piper and Kyle met at a camp as councilors. Young love at first sight. Fast forward 13 years and Piper is a senior executive at her dad's development firm, and hasn't seen or heard from Kyle since that summer at camp. Then, Kyle shows up for work as security as her building.

I found this ended on a good note, but the middle was tedious. I skimmed some of the parts. There was a lot of details and unnecessary filler interspersed. The writing came off as cheesy in my opinion. It's a light beach read, but it started flat and ended flat. It did not blow me away.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I fell in love with Piper and Kyle at Camp Wawa!!

Say You Still Love Me is a great second chance romance!

Piper is a strong female character! Just how I love them. She doesn't take anyone's crap in her professional or personal life. She is in the process of taking over her father's company but struggles with people respecting her. I love how she handles this situation!

Kyle is an all around boy next door, well maybe on the other side of town boy next door. He is judged for his family but is the total opposite. He has a heart of gold and I truly felt bad for him.

I love the way their story is written. We go back and forth between past to present. This helped make their connection together even stronger for me. I loved reading about their teenage love at Camp Wawa and all their mischievous ways. But loved it even more when they reconnected as adults!

I really enjoyed this book and I am really hoping we see more from the side characters. Especially Ashley, Mark and Eric. Fingers crossed we get some more!!!🤞❤🤞

This book is everything I want in a summer read 😍

I fell in love with KA Tucker earlier this year when I read The Simple Wild, and Say You Still Love Me lived up to every expectation I had.

This book is the perfect summertime read. It maintains a nice balance of light romance, with more serious topics. Basically, this book gave me all the feels.

Say You Still Love Me follows Piper and Kyle during two time frames- summer 2006 when they met at Camp WaWa and today, 13 years after Kyle broke Pipers heart and has now reappeared in her life. I found myself excited to learn more about both our main characters as teenagers and as adults, even though I usually strongly prefer one timeline over the other in these types of books. That being said, the teenage timeline made me so nostalgic for summers when I was younger. I always wanted to go to summer camp and this book definitely gave me my fix.

If you love romance, second chances, summer camp, and first loves, you’re going to adore Say You Still Love Me.

Thanks to NetGalley, Atria Books, and KA Tucker for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I have been a huge fan of K.A. Tucker for years and seriously could not wait to read this story. I absolutely loved the lovestory between Kyle and Piper and the way their story was told via flashbacks. Their young live and their days spent at camo WaWa was heartwarming to see. This stieybwas emotional and consuming and I never wanted it to end!

I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book for an honest review. Bravo. 4 stars! ~Ratula

This book is the very definition of giving something a second chance (for me personally & the story inside!). I had read this author before & did not connect, at all. But I decided to try her again with this title & I am so glad I did!

I’m not usually one for childhood romances, turn second chance adult romances. I feel like I miss out on the beginning of their love affair, only to witness its sequel. This story gives you both & I absolutely loved that! It’s told in flashbacks between chapters, giving us a glimpse of teenage Piper & Kyle & how they first fell in love as camp counselors one summer. Then, later as adults, we see how their paths cross again 13 years later.

The back & forth between chapters was nicely done, giving an even pace, but also leaving just enough to wonder what happens next & keep reading. This is easily a sit down to read kind of book & hours later you’re still there. I was swept up into their story & what happened so many years ago that led to them being strangers once again. I am so glad I gave this author another try because this story is one not to miss out on!

Say You Still Love Me starts off in the present. You’re introduced to Piper, who is about to take over her father’s position as CEO of their family business. She’s a serious career woman and takes a lot of pride in her job. She runs into her teenage boyfriend after being ghosted by him and not hearing from him for years. While Piper reminisces about her time with Kyle, you’re taken along for the ride. The book is split between the present and the past, which takes place at their old summer camp.

At first I was really not feeling this one. I don’t typically love books that jump back and forth between past and present. But as KA Tucker ALWAYS does, she sucked me into this story and I was invested. This is a story of first loves, first heartbreaks, and second chances. I don’t want to say much more, because I’m forever spoiling stories. I will say that I loved this book and it was a pretty quick read. A few chapters seemed to drag, but for the most part it was fun!

***Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for sending me this book in exchange for an honest review***

***4.5 stars***

K.A. Tucker is that author for me. You know, that one author you can always count on to captivate your attention from the very first page. That author who never fails to write a book that you immensely enjoy.

Say You Still Love Me is told from two different time periods: the present and from 13 years ago. In the present time, the story follows Piper, our main character. She is a successful 29-year-old woman working at her father’s real estate development firm. However, even though Piper is more than qualified for her position, she faces condescending employees as a result of her young age and her gender. But, Piper doesn't allow anyone to bully or push her around. All in all, life is pretty good for Piper--until her first love reappears after he ghosted her 13 years ago.

The other time period shows how Kyle and Piper met at summer camp when they were camp counselors and how they fell in love. K.A. Tucker captures the feeling of first love and summer perfectly in this storyline!

My only complaint would be that I think we should have had a couple more chapters from the present time towards the end of the book. The book tended to get a bit heavy on the summer when Kyle and Piper met.

This book was entertaining, funny, sweet, and definitely swoon-worthy. It’s the perfect read for the summer! I recommend this book to fans of second chance romance and slow-burn romance. Trust me, you’ll fall in love right along with Piper and Kyle.

Gah, this book was tedious.

I used to love, love, love K.A. Tucker, but her recent books have been disappointments.

I see a lot of friends loving this book, so maybe it's just me. However, I found Say You Still Love Me to be incredibly boring, which is the kiss of death for me. In fact, the only way I got through this one was by heavily skimming the second half.

I should have realized this book wasn't for me right from the start. I really dislike flashbacks and a good half of the story is told in flashback. Contemporary romances are always struggles for me, and if I'm going to love them, they have to be damn good. Say You Still Love Me wasn't, I'm afraid. There were a lot of summer camp details, a lot of rich kid details, and a lot of information that made my mind wander. I found the plot to be really slow, and the romance just didn't interest me.

I didn't really enjoy any of the characters, either. They either seemed immature or spoiled or just... blah. Nothing grabbed me.

Maybe some of my fellow readers, especially contemporary romance lovers (though this also felt very YA to me, even though the MCs are adults) will enjoy this one, but I'm going to have to talk a long, hard break from K.A. Tucker for awhile.

I felt nostalgic while reading this book. I just would sigh and get it and love it.

I loved being taken back and getting the glimpse of Piper when she was younger. What it was like during that time of her life is something she would always remember and does.

I understood her as an adult. I can’t believe everything that happened and the secrets that were told.

Everything in this book was just great! This is my second book by this author and I’m learning that sex takes a back seat because she delivers such a captivating story that sucks you in that you don’t need it to be satisfied.

Thanks to NetGalley and Atria for letting me read this early.

I’m becoming such a huge fan of this author.

This book was everything you could want in a summer read. I loved the nostalgia of summer camp and first love. It made my heart so happy to read about Kyle and Piper’s story, how love can endure, and what it means to never give up. I am such a fan of K.A. Tucker that I will read anything she writes. If you haven’t read anything by her, this book is the perfect one to get you started!