Review: Say You Still Love Me

Say You Still Love Me by K. A. Tucker

To be published on Augst 6, 2019 by Atria Books. Thanks to the publisher for giving me an advance copy for review.

Synopsis from Goodreads: Piper Calloway is 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 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.

Review: Say You Still Love Me

I’ve thought some of K.A. Tucker’s books were really great (like Burying Water) while others (the Ten Tiny Breaths series) were a little too over the top on the angst front for me. 

Say You Still Love Me fell somewhere in the middle for me, both in angst level and in how much I liked it. A mash-up of Dirty Dancing (girl at summer camp defies rich father to romance a blue collar guy) and The Parent Trap (camp hijinks and divorced parents) sounds like something I’d love, but this story was more predictable than I hoped.

The storyline switched between a summer camp romance in the past and a second chance at love story in the present. Points for mashing up two great romance scenarios!

In the past, Piper is a rich girl who falls for a wrong side of the tracks guy. In the present, she has a an overbearing rich father, an absent shopaholic mother, a vain, douchey ex, and a preppy, golf-obsessed colleague who she thinks is out to make her look bad at work. On the positive side, she also has her two BFFs from camp days who live in the huge apartment her father gave her, a donut-loving security guard. But then that gorgeous wrong-side-of-the-tracks former boyfriend pops up out of nowhere.

I’m crazy about second chance at love stories so I think my main obstacle to loving this was Piper. In the present day, she’s pretty annoyingly perfect. She was constantly describing what she was wearing and damn, did she think she looked good. She thought a lot about how her dresses were tight in a way that flattered her toned arms and slender curves. What made it worse was that Piper had a history of being pretty unkind when evaluating other women. She literally says that one of her best friends is “afflicted” with a “thick layer of brown freckles” (huh?) and the other is “stocky” but makes the best of it (yikes!) 

I’m also all for a rich girl/boy from the wrong side of the tracks story and I did like Kyle. But since Piper got much less relatable as she got older, that made it hard for me to root for these two or see them as an ideal match.

I can see that others on my Goodreads timeline have loved this, so you should definitely make up your own mind. I remain a fan of K.A.T. but I’m going to go read Burying Water #2 as I think I never got to that one!

Have you read this? What did you think??