As a fan of KA Tucker for years reading her novels, I loved this concept of first love at summer camp, and being reunited with that love. It’s such a fun trope of summer camp romance, complete with a bad boy crush that the parents disapprove of, and I could not wait to read this book!

I would say that this is the perfect novel to dip into for new romance readers, because it’s more of a slow burn, but reads back and forth between her summer camp past, and empowered woman present for main character Cassie, and her boy crush Kyle.

It did ebb on the slower side at times for me, but I could see myself falling head over heels for bad boy Kyle.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 stars!

*Thank you to the author for the gifted copy and netgalley for the free ebook in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

Say You Still Love Me is a book that tells the story of two young people Piper Calloway and Kyle Miller who were once madly in love during the holidays on Camp Wawa where they worked as counselors. They were never meant to be together because they come from different worlds. Although as teenagers they promised themselves they would do anything to keep in touch. Piper never heard anything from Kyle when she returned home and that completely broke her heart. Now she is 29 years old powerful woman, VP at her dad's multibillion-dollar real estate development firm, and she buried old sentiments a long time ago. But one day she unexpectedly runs into Kyle Miller who just started work for her company as a security guard and their past has returned to her mind with all ugly and wonderful feelings they once had. Say You Still Love me is a second chance romance which will take you on a journey to your teenage memories of first love and bring you all the feelings that you may have long forgotten. Also, reminds you of how you once thought everything was possible and how much you were ready to fight for it. The chapters are told from the present and the past and I like this kind of layers in books. Of course, this book contains several schemes many times used in this type of literature but that didn't discourage me at all. I like this book, these characters and I think Say You Still Love Me is great summer read. I highly recommend it for fans of the romance genre and of course K.A. Tucker's writing.

𝑴𝒚 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌: ★★★★½
•Thanks to Netgalley for providing me a complimentary copy of Say You Still Love Me by K.A. Tucker in exchange for my honest review•

While I loved the flashback scenes and storyline of this book (I mean, hello, summer camp! Gave me all the counselor vibes), I just couldn't buy the character's decisions when it came to present day. They did really dumb things that were uncharacteristic to what the author was trying to portray them as. If Piper is such a smart and powerful woman, why is she making such stupid choices when it comes to a boy? And there was no smut! I thought K.A. Tucker wrote smut! So much fade to black it got infuriating...

I really liked Tucker’s last book - THE SIMPLE WILD - and this one is different in a lot of ways but the writing and character development that I loved in the last book is definitely present in this one.⁣
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So far, this book centers around 28-year-old Piper, the daughter of a billionaire real estate/redevelopment mogul. She’s being groomed to take over his company one day, but she can’t shake memories of her first love, Kyle, who she met at summer camp 13 years ago. This is a story of opposites attract and re-connection after many years apart. ⁣

While I definitely enjoyed this book, THE SIMPLE WILD is still my favorite! However, I found this to be a fast-paced and very entertaining read.

Say You Still Love me - by K.A. Tucker is an amazingly emotional second chance romance story!

Team Kyle & Piper for sure here. 🙋‍♀️❤️

I’m normally not a “romance” reader- but I won a novel by this author in a giveaway and wound up loving it so much (Ten Tiny Breaths 😍- a must read) - that I wanted to continue reading her books.

I did enjoy this book, although it was a bit predictable at times (why I normally don’t read romance ). I would recommend this one though - especially if you are a fan of K.A. Tucker - she definitely delivers here. ❤️.

If you like a sweet - emotional - romance that gets a second chance - this is for you . I love the writing as it goes from past it present so smoothly here and that’s difficult to do!

⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 - 3.75 stars from me!
Thanks to all involved for giving me this opportunity to read this early copy and in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own here . Grateful reader always- ✨

Oh young love!

I absolutely adored K.A. Tucker's last book The Simple Wild so I couldn't wait to get my hands on Say You Still Love Me. I've noticed she has a thing where her female protagonists are kinda snobby at the start. Calla (from The Simple Wild) ended up being much more likable than Piper. Some of Piper's comments really rubbed me the wrong way and I was super bummed that I didn't love this one. I will say it picked up towards the end which ultimately bumped it from a three star to a four star for me. If you love second chance romances and went to summer camp as a kid I think you'd enjoy this. My parents never sent me to summer camp (rude) so I wasn't as in to the nostalgia and I just couldn't with some of Piper's privilege so this one wasn't one of my favs.

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the e-galley

Say You Still Love Me is my second KA Tucker book and I am a fan! Tucker's writing seriously just hooks me. Piper Calloway is a 29-year-old VP at her dad's multibillion dollar firm and life is good. Yes, she's dealing with all the BS you'd expect in an environment of mostly middle-aged men who don't take kindly to take orders from an attractive, young woman but she loves what she does. She's out of a relationship that didn't make sense and living with her two best friends. Then she finds out her first love, Kyle Miller, has taken a security job at her firm and sparks (plus questions) fly. We alternate back and forth between the present and the past and I genuinely enjoyed both sides of the story. The first-time all-consuming and passionate love that existed between them as teens is captured perfectly on page. But I'm also a sucker for second chance romances and that was done well in the present too. The reason why I docked a star is because of the one points of conflict didn't quite have the emotional impact it was supposed to and then it got wrapped up too quickly and neatly. But otherwise, I think this is another winner from the author and I already own another book of hers I hope to read soon! (But The Simple Wild is still my fave.)

It takes a special author - and a special book - to make you feel nostalgic for a place you’ve never been and experience you’ve never had. K.A. Tucker was just that author, and Say You Still Love Me was that book. I pretty much suspected I would love this book as soon as I read the blurb. I don't think I realized just how much Piper and Kyle's second chance romance would get to me though. These two worked their way under my skin and into my heart.

One of my favorite things about Say You Still Love Me was the format in which it was told. Jumping back and forth between present day and the past can be messy, but it was far from that in this one. I loved how the details of Piper and Kyle first falling in love at Camp Wawa were woven in with their second chance. I can't think of how this book would possibly work any other way. Basically I lived for the bits I would get from both time periods in each chapter. It made me feel as though I really was right there beside them, part of the story.

It could probably go without saying, but I absolutely loved the romance in Say You Still Love Me. From the first love at Camp Wawa and the albeit more complicated second chance in present day, I was 1000% in. I couldn't get enough of Piper or Kyle (together or separate!) or the secondary characters, for that matter. While present day Piper and Kyle (understandably) had their issues to work through, Camp Wawa Piper and Kyle just warmed my heart. Is there anything as pure as first love?

Say You Still Love Me was an absolutely joy to read. I adored the characters. Piper was especially wonderful. Present day Kyle got a pretty healthy dose of side eye initially, but it wasn't long before he had me swooning all over the place. I never went to summer camp, but somehow while reading this, I felt like I had. The setting and characters were so rich, it was easy to imagine myself right there. I laughed and cried and reminisced on my own first love and some fun summers spent with friends and big time crushes. What a sweet and special read. Hands down one of my favorites of the summer.

Favorite Quotes:

But is this what my life has become? Managing fragile male egos all day long?

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.

I'm going to be madly in love with Piper Calloway for the rest of my life and I only just met her.

|Thank you to @atriabooks @netgalley and @katucker_ for the eARC #partner|
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Piper and Kyle meet as summer camp counselors at Camp Wawa. They have an impassioned teenage summer romance that's driven by hormones and filled with promises to stay together after the summer is over. Unfortunately, their summer fling doesn't survive the return to real life. Piper is devastated, heartbroken, and left wondering what went wrong when Kyle doesn't contact her after the summer is over. 13 years later, Piper sees Kyle in the lobby of her office building. The emotions from their summer together come rushing back and she can't help wanting to reconnect with Kyle. As she continues to encounter him around the office, Piper realizes that her feelings for Kyle are still alive and growing stronger. She's determined to figure out what brought him back into her life and if there's any hope for a relationship after all the time and events that have passed.
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Say You Still Love Me is told in a dual time line switching back and forth between summer 2006 and present day. I love the way this worked for this story. Reading how Piper and Kyle met and fell in love at summer camp brought back so many memories of my own summer camp adventures. K.A. Tucker wrote the feelings, thrills, and nerves of young love so beautifully that it truly felt like I was going through it again. Not only that, but Piper and Kyle get a second chance at their romance 13 year later so the reader gets to fall in love with and through this couple twice in the same novel.
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If you ever went to summer camp or wish you went to summer camp, this story will take you (back) there. If you ever experienced first love, you'll relive it through the Piper and Kyle. If you love a swoony love story that will make your heart leap and drop like it's on a roller coaster, you'll love this book. When I finished Say You Still Love Me, I flipped it over and immediately started reading it again -- it's THAT good. It's an extraordinary story that will take you on an enchanting summer adventure full of heart and second chances. I loved this book!

I loved The Simple Wild, but just didn't connect with this one as much. I think I would've liked it more if it was just the camp story and not the back and forth time frames. I connected with Piper as a teen but not as much in the present day chapters. This won't stop me from reading future KA Tucker books though--I do love her writing style!

A headstrong, badass business woman and a man from the wrong side of the tracks? Check!
A summer camp romance? Check!
Lots of angst and tension? Check!

This was absolutely everything I wanted it to be and so much more.

Say You Still Love Me is a second chance romance full of feels. You know that first love feeling you get when you meet your seemingly perfect match in your teens. The all consuming first time love between Piper Calloway and the boy she meets at summer camp at age 16 is like no other. Almost from first site, there was something about Kyle- his rugged tattoos, confidence...aura surrounding him. She’s the high society girl from the city whose mother makes her spend a summer as camp counselor and he’s the guy who has more family in jail than not, him <I>needing</I> this income to survive. Different backgrounds, different lives...one connection. One summer and then nothing until he walks in the door of her high-rise building. She the CEO and he the new security guard. Still huge social differences but one connection that seems to stand the test of time but can social differences, standings make their relationship impossible?

I liked this. I really did. It took me a while to get through it though. Not sure if it was the length or my attention span to it was a bit wavering. Regardless, I love a good second chance romance but the added angst of their huge social differences and just how they intend to make that work captured my interest most. A slow burn romance that’s a great story for all romance readers!

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This book was made for summertime reading! Summer camp sweethearts Kyle and Piper reconnect after 13 years. Piper never knew what happened to Kyle after camp and when he shows up in her life in the most unexpected place, she doesn’t know what to do. It doesn’t take her long to decide though :)

Even if that’s all there was to this story, it would have been good, but there is so much more. I would say this book was more chick-lit with romance as the underlying catalyst of the story. Piper and Kyle’s story had twists and turns that kept me reading and KA Tucker really has a gift for storytelling. This was a really good read!

Aww man this book gave me allllll the feels! It took me back to hat summer days, diving into the lake at summer camp with terrible food but amazing friends. It made me remember all the awkward interactions with strangers that turn into friends and the little moments that happen when you meet someone new. It took me back to all the good summer memories.

K.A. Tucker wrote in, what has become, one of my favorite styles for a novel. The then and now. I love the alternating chapters giving you a little bit of the previous story as you go, along with the current story.

Then 2006, Camp Wawa: Piper has always had everything she has ever needed and wanted, and often times more. But her mother believes being a camp counselor, at a camp she attended at a girl, will give Piper a little bit of normalcy that her privileged life so far hasn’t allowed. Being 16, Piper is not looking forward to eight weeks with strangers in the wilderness. She is only thinking about the end of summer. But when she arrives, she meets new friends, and spots Kyle Miller, a fellow counselor and realizes this may not be so bad after all. As the summer unfolds, Piper is able to experience a lot of first’s. First time jumping off a cliff, skinny dipping, knitting and getting probation to name a few. But the one that sticks with her the longest, the one she never got over ... first love.

Now: Piper, now 29, is newly appointed as the VP of her fathers very profitable real-estate company. She is being primed to take over when her dad retires even if not everyone thinks she is deserving of the role, (like her fathers long time employee Trip). Not only does Piper have to work harder to prove herself not only to her employees and her ex fiancé, but it also to her father as well. Working hard has never been a problem, Piper has always been up for the challenge up until their building hired a new security guard, named Kyle. She suddenly finds herself distracted, reminiscing and questioning everything that took place at Camp Wawa, years before. Thirteen years doesn’t seem like that long ago when your first love, the one that broke your heart, is now looking at you each day when you walk in through the front doors of your office building.

Piper now has the chance to get answers to the questions she has spent years wondering about. Questions that not even with time and new relationships have been erased from the back of her mind. She just needs to decide if hearing the answers (the truth) is going to be worth it.

“I have to stop thinking about the mischievous, playful guy from Camp Wawa. The one who was chasing and charming me from the moment he first laid eyes on me. The one who grabbed my attention from forty feet away and seized my heart not long after.”

As soon as I finished reading Say You Still Love Me, I already wanted to reread it. And spoiler ... I totally did go back and reread/skim some of it. It was that good! I cannot wait to read more of K.A. Tuckers novels, if they are even a fraction as good as this one.

I really liked this book. K.A. Tucker does a great job of mixing the past and the present through alternating chapters. I felt like I was able to get the whole story of these two. Kyle and Piper had that instant connection and since they were at opposite sides of the road-how would they make it work? This was a second chance romance and I just love those types of stories. Kyle was just the best. He was the bad boy with the good heart and I can see why Piper fell for him. What is there not to like? He is what made the book for me. Piper was fierce. Being in a male-dominated world, she needed that strong backbone but I liked how vulnerable she could be at times. It made her real. I enjoyed the parts of when Kyle and Piper together-whether in the past or present. These two had the “it” factor. I loved seeing how their story progressed. The only thing I wished for was more of an epilogue-in the distant future. I was satisfied with the ending but I truly great story leaves you wanting more and that’s what this book did to me. Say You Still Love Me is one of my top reads this year, in a year where everything was ok-good. The writing style, the plot, the characters-it was all amazing.

I love KA Tucker. She writes poignant, heart-wrenching stories that always make me tear up at one point. I just love her writing. Say You Still Love Me was no different in that regard. However, it took me forever to make it through this book and I blame the way it was written.

Alternating timelines - we get the presence and flashbacks into the past. I'm not a big fan of excessive use of flashbacks as they keep the story from moving forward. And that's exactly what happened here. This story would have been so much easier to read if the author had divided the book in two parts, a now and then respectively instead of going back and forth in every other chapter, which made the story feel like molasses, which is sad because the plot itself was beautiful! I found my thoughts drifting and my attention waning multiple times.

"You'll make friends for life here. People you can call up twenty years from now, for anything, and they'll be there for you. I promise you, you won't forget these days, ever."

I loved Piper and Kyle's sweet beginnings, the first love when hormones got the better of you. Kyle is the boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Piper the rich girl, a daddy's girl who wants to follow her father's footsteps. I didn't grow up rich but K.A. Tucker made Piper relatable because she wanted everything every young girl wants: a functional family and the approval of her parents for the boy she fell in love with. Imagine how hurt she must have been when he didn't remember her when they met again.

Kyle may not have forgotten me, but he doesn’t seem to want to remember us.

It's typical for this author that we only get one point of view and I'd really have loved to get Kyle's. He left summer camp where he and Piper met without a trace. We learn why later on and because this story was so slow I was soooo tempted to skip and find out why. While I dove deeper into the story I found things out about him that made him look shady but I held on to the belief that this author would give us another lovable hero and in that regard K.A. Tucker never disappoints. While he wasn't his boyish, playful younger self any longer, a grown-up, a little more somber version of him was just as alluring. The selfless things he did, the reason why he left, the realization that Piper has always been The One for him, it all made me fall deeper in love with him.

This was no The Simple Wild, which was one of my top favorites last year. It had all the ingredients but the execution didn't work for me. I'm sure that's a one-off and next time I'll be singing praises about her talent and craft again. At the heart of it, though, this is a beautiful, a little heartbreaking, emotional story that will make you think of your own youth, the friendships you made, the carefree spirit of that time in your life, that tingling first love. Give this a try if this kind of story appeals to you because I'm just one opinion and you may feel completely different about it!

“And I will jump off any cliff you ask me to, no matter how frightened I am, as long as it means you’re waiting for me at the bottom.”

Told in alternating timelines, one present day, one in 2006 at summer camp, we follow the story of how Kyle and Piper met and fell in love when they were teens before everything fell apart. In the present day, after 13 years apart, Kyle and Piper happen to find their way back together, but can their love survive their many glaring differences, Piper’s father, and the past 13 years?

This had a slow start for me but once it picked up, I was enraptured. I love that it’s centered around a romantic story line but there’s other elements going on with the story as well. I love that although you start out really disliking the father, you grow to love him and how he just wants to do the right thing by Piper. The part that really solidified this as a 4 star for me was the twist at the end; it had me so sad envisioning it in my head. I can’t wait to read more from this author.

I’m a huge K.A. Tucker fan and I was thrilled when I saw the cover of this book. Tucker can write some of the best love stories and I was intrigued that the cover looked like it tied in with a sweet, young summer love.

I really liked the premise, and I really enjoyed Kyle as the hero, but Piper was just alright. She had her moments when I really liked her but then she would start to bore me. She didn’t have an especially distinct personality the way I would’ve expected her to being one of Tucker’s characters.

Speaking of characters, I also didn’t particularly like Piper’s friend, Christa. She came off as super snobby and uptight when they were teenagers, but I knew they were friends later in life so I kept waiting for her sort of “redeeming” moment where she and Piper finally bonded. But she just came off as this unlikable bitch for the entirety of the book.

Despite just feeling okay about the book, I do have to admit that it tugged a couple of tears from me, which I did not expect. I was just reading and next thing I know a tear slips out. That’s difficult to do if I’m not particularly invested in the characters.

Tucker’s writing is good; however, I did notice a few obvious mistakes that I was surprised were in there. At one point, she even refers to a character as the wrong name at one point. It was so obvious and startling that I had to go back and read it several times just to make sure I wasn’t confused. Piper is having a private conversation with her friend Eric, and during it she clearly refers to him as Kyle. Honest mistake, but I’m surprised even in an “uncorrected proof” (that certainly has been edited) that this wasn’t caught.

In any event, you won’t necessarily go wrong with Say You Still Love Me. I just don’t know that I’d recommend it to anyone thinking that they’d fall head over heels in love with it.

When Piper is seventeen, her mom makes her slum it one summer at her old summer camp. Piper meets a hot boy from the wrong side of the tracks. He breaks her heart. And then, years later, they meet again. He is the new security guard for her company's building. This is a second chance romance.

I did not finish this book.

Piper is a snob. Full stop.

At first, I kept reading. Telling myself that it is her character and the way she is supposed to be. She grew up rich, and that's how she sees the world. Blah, Blah. And then I had to get real with what I was reading. People can grow up rich, and not act or think like Piper. Piper is supposed to be the girl we root for in this story. I don't mind an unlikable character. But, there has to be a reason for it.

Once I started skimming pages and looking at what percent I had left of the book, I knew that it was time for me to dnf. I read 40% of the book.

I'm sure that this book will work for other readers. Not everyone who reads it may be bothered by Piper and be able to take the story as is. It just was not the book for me.

Thank you Netgalley for this eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I have heard such great things about this book and the author, K.A. Tucker. I am so glad I was asked to review this book, it was seriously so adorable!

I loved this story about a second chance romance between Piper and Kyle. Piper and Kyle met at summer camp, and immediately had a crush on one another. Do you remember your first crush, and that feeling you had?

This book jumps back and forth between the present and the past at camp. Right from the start, I was hooked onto this book, and had to know what was going to happen between them. The story will take you by surprise, as it doesn’t go in the direction that you’re going to assume.

The characters are very relatable and likable, which made the book even better. This is such a steamy romance, with the best chemistry between the characters. I highly recommend this book for anyone who loves romance, and nostalgic camp vibes.