INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The bestselling author of The Simple Wild and Keep Her Safe and “master of steamy romance” (Kirkus Reviews) delivers a sizzling novel about an ambitious and high-powered executive who reconnects with her first love: the boy who broke her heart. Life is a mixed bag for Piper Calloway. On the one hand, she’s a twenty-nine-year-old VP at her dad’s multibillion-dollar real … she’s a twenty-nine-year-old VP at her dad’s multibillion-dollar real estate development firm, and living the high single life with her two best friends in a swanky downtown penthouse. On the other hand, she’s considered a pair of sexy legs in a male-dominated world and constantly has to prove her worth. Plus she’s stuck seeing her narcissistic ex-fiancé–a fellow VP–on the other side of her glass office wall every day.
Things get exponentially more complicated for Piper when she runs into Kyle Miller–the handsome new security guard at Calloway Group, and coincidentally the first love of her life.
The guy she hasn’t seen or heard from since they were summer camp counselors together. The guy from the wrong side of the tracks. The guy who apparently doesn’t even remember her name.
Piper may be a high-powered businesswoman now, but she soon realizes that her schoolgirl crush is still alive and strong, and crippling her concentration. What’s more, despite Kyle’s distant attitude, she’s convinced their reunion isn’t at all coincidental, and that his feelings for her still run deep. And she’s determined to make him admit to them, no matter the consequences.
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HIGHLY recommended
This book brought back all the feels and nostalgia of summer camp romance. This was my first Tucker novel, but it won’t be my last. A page-turner.
I really enjoyed the build of this story from first love, friends and summer camp to second chances, true love and family. With the jump between past and present, we see Kyle & Piper as teens and adults, their love in its purest form and what it’ll take to make it work. My only complaint would be the epilogue just didn’t give me the completeness I enjoy with my romances.
I love love love this novel. I can’t get enough of Kyle and Piper. Reading this book brought back memories of young love, granted my story is nothing like this one. I had a hard time putting this book down and just wanted to keep reading one more chapter to see what was going to happen. I won’t spill the beans, but I loved how it ended. I was left feeling happy and on cloud nine. K.A. Tucker does an amazing job creating characters that you connect to from the get go. I loved how we got a sneak peak into the past and how Piper and Kyle’s relationship developed. In the end, the one thing you take away from this story is that it doesn’t matter where you are in life, especially financially, love can be found with anyone. It’s the person that truly matters. I would love to see another book that continues on and follows Piper and Kyle.
Say You Still Love Me is a cute second chance romance told from the past and present. Readers follows Piper Calloway as she’s forced to attend a summer camp as a counsellor while her friends are off enjoying Europe. When Piper arrives, she realizes the summer might not be so bad after all once she’s introduced to Kyle Miller.
What I loved most about Say You Still Love Me were the chapters set in the past. Those chapters are rife with palpable chemistry between the main characters and fun secondary characters all set within a setting that’s easy to visualize.
Tucker takes the star-crossed lovers trope and gives it a fresh spin with the setting and time jump. I cannot express how much I loved the camp setting. It’s fun, fresh, and exciting. It also lends itself perfectly to the star-crossed lovers trope as it levels the playing field between the characters. Tucker’s writing ability when it comes to setting and atmosphere is second to none in the romance genre. She proved her skills in The Simple Wild and, now, with Say You Still Love Me cements her mastery.
What ultimately led me to rate Say You Still Love Me four stars instead of five was the chapters that took place in the present. Those chapters don’t have as much presence since they’re trying to juggle Piper’s career with her personal life. As much as I enjoyed watching Piper in her element, it doesn’t hold a candle to Piper and Kyle at camp.
Overall, Say You Still Love Me is the perfect summer romance to curl up with at the cottage.
How KA Tucker does it I’ll never know but all of her books, all of her characters speak to the heart – this one is no exception.
Love lost, love found, pushed away and redeemed. It speaks to real life while giving hope to Happily ever after.
This is a must read, stay up all night until your done book.
#CampWawaForever
Everyone at one point or another has thought about a second chance with their first love, and lucky for Piper Calloway she is about to get that chance. But unfortunately she isn’t really in the right place in life for that chance, with a ex-fiance constantly circling waiting for another shot, and her overbearing father constantly poking his nose in to her life, she has no time for a personal life.
But thoughts of what her and Kyle had way back when keep resurfacing and causing her to question her priorities… can the boy who once captured her heart, be the man to permanently hold it?
As soon as I cracked the cover on Say You Still Love Me I was hooked, these wonderfully crafted characters wandered onto the page and had me instantly mesmerized. The drama I found on the pages kept me constantly engaged, the swoony moments curled my toes, and the emotional ones stirred up a case of the feels… it was such a perfectly blended tale giving me everything I could possibly want in a story! Highly recommend!!
I requested an advanced copy of this title from the publisher, via NetGalley, and I am leaving my honest and unbiased opinion.
First love~ Summer camp…fond memories.
I enjoyed the story a lot but hated the past/present back and forth.
Kyle and Piper were fantastic. The secondary cast was equally incredible.
With KA Tucker’s books it’s better to go in blind and be surprised!
~BREAKDOWN OF RATINGS~
Plot~ 4/5
Main Characters (hero/heroine)~ 5/5
Secondary Characters~ 5/5
The Feels~ 5/5
Pacing~ 4/5
Addictiveness~4/5
Angst~ 5/5
Steam/Hotness/Chemisty ~ 4/5
Theme or Tone~ 4/5
Flow (Writing Style)~ 4/5
Backdrop (World Building)~ 4/5
Originality~ 4/5
Ending~ 5/5 I did want more..
Book Cover~ eye catching
Series~ stand-alone
Source~ Kindle eBook – purchased from Amazon
Would I read more from the author? Yes
Would I recommend this book? Yes
This book was so good K. A. Tucker delivered a great love story. Her writing style is fantastic it’s hard to put her books down.
When Piper gets sent to camp for summer to be a councilor and try something more humbling than a summer trip to Europe who knew she would actually make life long friends and meet her first love.
Piper had no desire to go to camp but the promise of a band new car at the end of summer was enough to make her go. She learned a lot that summer and fell in love with the bad boy who showed her how to jump off cliffs.
One bad decision sent her home and 13 years later she finally runs into her true love again. Will they make it work or was it just summer love?
When she learns the truth in a way that only K. A. can write will she be able to make it work?
I loved this book it was just amazing. It was a page turner some times we make decisions that don’t seem to terrible until we learn the truth later in life. When she leans why the truth was kept from her she fights back. This book was a 5 read.
I really liked this story. It’s whimsical and nostalgic hitting all the right chords and playing out well for a second-chance romance. Toggling from present to past with each chapter strictly from the heroine’s point of view we travel in the midst of two love stories from youth and adulthood. The subdued and simmering chemistry is palpable really solidifying the intense connection making the romance that much more explosive.
There were a couple of character quirks about the hero that I had had enough of that really kept me from rating this 5 stars even though I did fully enjoy the story. The heroine was definitely the stronger character. But together there’s no denying the loveliness of their journey to, away, and back to each other. With interesting backgrounds and brighter futures the two are very different but something special in each other.
K.A. Tucker’s writing in the first person point of view was lovely as well. I didn’t caught up in an abundance overly exaggerated details in this perspective and her story flow kept me engaged the entire time. I was especially loving how she slowly unraveled the past through the present without leaving us hanging after every chapter as an artificial plot device. It worked really well and suited the story of these two characters quite perfectly.
Say You Still Love Me proves itself as an excellent story for the hopeless romantics. I enjoyed it from beginning to end. It’s a complete stand alone and easy read.
Who doesn’t love a good book about rekindled love and summer camp counselors’ escapades?? I was totally intrigued by the synopsis, and didn’t think twice about reading this one, but while I really liked the characters and the plot, some of the romantic scenes had me cringing hard and rolling my eyes. But I was entertained and surprised by a few plot twists. Maybe it would make a good vacation or beach read…
I love this story!! From beginning to end it was so addictive, couldn´t stop reading. I really enjoyed how it went from present to past, I think that helped to create a great vibe and a nostalgia feeling around the romance between the protagonists. I loved the characters!! Definitely, I need more of them including the secondary characters, there is more to each of their story. For me this book was the perfect read for summer and one of my favorite romances of the year, if you pick it up you´ll not regret it!
4.5 Stars
I am such a huge fan of K.A. Tucker and could not wait to start this book. I loved everything about it from the cover to the story. This book captivated me.
Kyle and Piper met when they were teenagers as camp counselors one summer. The chemistry was instant when they saw each other. These two couldn’t be more opposite Piper comes from a wealthy family, and Kyle has one brother he is close with.
Now 13 years later and Piper and Kyle haven’t seen each other after he disappeared. They are now in each other’s life now working in the same building. Neither of them forgot about the other. People change over the years and they are not the same people they once were. Will they be able to get back what they had?
This book had it all and I loved every minute of it.
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.
Sincere, intoxicating, and heartwrenching!
Say You Still Love Me is an alluring, emotional tale that takes you on a journey into the life of the hardworking, intelligent Piper as she juggles a high-pressure career, a sexist coworker, an overbearing family with good intentions, the memories of one summer that changed her life forever, and the sudden reappearance of the boy who first stole her heart and then left her brokenhearted.
The writing is fluid and intense. The characters are secretive, scarred, ambitious, and intriguing. And the plot is a wonderful, contemporary mix of life, love, coming-of-age, family dynamics, humour, heartbreak, privilege, conflict, and surprises that starts in the present, takes you back 13-years in the past, and ultimately finishes when the past and the present collide.
Overall, Say You Still Love Me is another memorable, heartwarming, compelling tale by Tucker that once again has the perfect amount of mystery and romance to keep you engaged, enthralled, and invested from start to finish.
Say You Still Love Me was a beautiful story about finding love and eventually getting that second chance.
Piper had one of the best summers 13 years ago. Where she met a boy, who changed her whole life around, this story did touch a little piece of my heart, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I hate to say it, but it did take me a bit to finish it. Not that it wasn’t good, it’s just when stories go back and forth from past to present. It just throws me off. Tucker’s writing style is just like it always is. She has a brilliant way of writing that makes you feel the story, way after you’re done reading.
As always, I loved the secondary characters. As well as, the main characters. I feel they all played a part. I loved that I got a chance to read the story. And can’t wait to see what else Tucker has in store for us next.
Overall, Four Boundless Stars.
Kyle and Piper met one summer as camp counselors. Something major happens while they are at camp and Piper always wonders why she never heard from Kyle after their summer romance. Thirteen years later, Piper runs into Kyle, who is now working in her building. She can’t help wondering why he is there and if it means anything. This story alternates from the present to the past to help show what happened to them and why it was so surprising to Piper. Piper feels like Kyle is hiding something very crucial from her, but she can’t figure it out.
I won’t give anything else away, because this story takes you through a great series of events. K.A. Tucker does an amazing job of getting you to remember those feelings of being a teenager and first loves. She also makes you really feel the feelings of the characters, and I found myself feeling what they were going through. Not many authors can really dig deep to get you to feel all of those emotions, but Tucker can. Every book of hers gets better and better, and this one is no exception. I found myself returning to my favorite scenes after I finished this book. You don’t want to miss out on this one!
I absolutely love everything that K.A. Tucker writes. Say You Still Love Me is a sweet, sexy second chance romance. This story flip flops between the past and present which I really enjoyed. Piper Colloway is a beautiful young woman who was recently promoted to senior vice president of her father’s company. She has to deal with lots of arrogant men including her ex-fiance. She only stayed with him because he is the type of guy her father hoped she would. She has never forgotten her first true love from summer camp, Kyle Miller. She is quite intrigued when the new security at her building just happens to be the one man who broke her heart many years ago and then disappeared for years. She isn’t sure why he is back in her life but she definitely has some questions for him. Kyle Miller fell in love with Piper at camp many years ago but because of life circumstances he never reached out to her after camp was over. When he becomes a security guard at Piper’s office he claims he doesn’t remember her but how do you forget the girl you fell hard for so many years ago? Will these two be able to work through the mistakes of their past and reconnect as adults? I loved the connection between Piper and Kyle. The secondary characters added lots of depth to the storyline. I loved all the twists and turns this story took. I can’t wait to see what K.A. is working on next!!
I adore books that bring out the nostalgia of my childhood/teenage years. First loves, summers with friends, no cares in the world but fun. Because of this I almost think the chapters in the past were my favorite part of this book. They were needed to build the story and let us understand the relationship and eventual fall out between Kyle and Piper. Now with all that said, I do think they may have taken a bit away from the now. It felt rushed a bit and I think I missed out on learning more about who Kyle is now. This kind of led to mixed feelings about his adult relationship with Piper. I think if we had gotten to spend more time with them in the now I would have loved this story more.
Piper is a great character. Even in her teenage years she showed gut into getting what she wanted with no reserve. This really helped in her adult life and working in a firm full of men, one of which is her formidable dad. Of course there were times I wondered if she would cower down but once she got her bearings her true colors never failed to show. She demanded respect but she always went about it in ways that she earned it. This was probably my favorite thing about her. But let me tell you, once she left the office she showed a different side of her with her friends that I came to love too. Like all of us, she had a vulnerable side and when that wall came down it brought out emotions that you would never expect from the corporate Piper.
The secondary characters in this were some of my favorites ever. From camp to learning they all stay connected somehow into their adult lives was inspiring. Even the girl we all kind of rolled our eyes out in the beginning. There is one part to their story that brought out some sadness but also hope in how they all rallied together once things were brought to light.
This is a good, solid story and is perfect for a beach read this summer. This is actually my first book by this author so now the question bears, what do I read next of hers?
***4 Stars***
This was one of those books that, when everything was said and done, I ended up really enjoying, but it also took me a bit longer to get through it than I had expected when I started it. It isn’t the books fault, at least not entirely, since there were spots that dragged for me, that smashed up with life in general kept me from devouring from start to finish. But in the end I enjoyed this mixed bag of romance tropes that was woven into a story about how one moment can change everything.
I really liked Piper and Kyle. Piper is persistent, stubborn and yet isn’t immovable. She has a good heart and a sweet and sassy nature that makes you see beyond the surface and into her soul. Kyle hasn’t had an easy life, but does all he can to move past the bad things and live a good life. Cocky, charming and with a core of honor and loyalty that rivals most, he is a good man who does what needs to be done.
Kyle and Piper’s journey was an interesting one as we get glimpses of not only their present, but their past, and it’s easy to see how the connection they forged never broke ~ regardless of time and distance. I really enjoyed seeing how time had changed them, but only made them stronger and was definitely rooting for them to get their HEA. Of course nothing is ever easy, and with these two they had a lot more obstacles in their path, and while I tended to be #teampiper (at least in their present) I never turned on Kyle either.
This was an interesting read. Secrets and half truth along with the friendships, the connections made one summer kept coming back. As for the secondary characters. This one definitely had a mixed bag of personalities, some I really liked while others had me growling, Ashley was my favorite along with Rhett, but each character brought depth to the story and understanding of the world Piper and Kyle were living in.
~ Copy provided by the publisher via NetGalley & voluntarily reviewed ~