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Let's Give 'em Pumpkin to Talk about
by Isabelle Popp
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Overall: 3.5 rounded to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖 (I started on e-book but switched to audio and was able to read much faster)
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋 (This one didn’t grab me in regards to feeling an emotional connection with the mains)
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔 (I think you get a pretty good back story from the mains and who they are, their struggles)
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡ (It was mild for me)
Romance: 💞💞 (I did not find this one romantic)
Sensuality: 💋💋💋 (I liked them fine but something was just missing a bit for me. Maybe I wasn’t emotionally attached the characters enough to really feel it)
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥 (at least, I might have missed some)
Humor: Yes, a bit
Perspective: third person from the hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: soon in, 4% (chapter 1 of 28)
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes, one year later
Format: voluntarily read an advanced reader copy in e-book format through NetGalley but switched to audiobook (again from NetGalley) at about 30%
Why I chose this book: I liked the cover!
Mains: This is a M/F relationship between I believe a cishet hero and bisexual heroine (she mentions past girlfriends)
Should I read in order?
I think this one stands alone.
Basic plot:
Sadie believes home holds nothing for her. But she returns anyway to assist her dad’s pumpkins in winning the local SPICE Pumpkin Weigh-off only to find the entire patch destroyed. Luckily her interesting neighbor, creator of Josh’s Squashes is willing to give her some starts to get back in the competition.
Give this a try if you want:
- contemporary romance
- Indiana, USA setting
- small town – Pea Blossom
- rich, squash growing hero
- textile artist heroine
- opposites attract – a black cat heroine and an eager to please hero
- neighbors
- tattooed heroine
- plus size rep (heroine)
- fall themes
- rivals – they are both trying to grow the biggest pumpkin in the S.P.I.C.E. competition
- medium steam – 3 full scenes at least (I might have missed something) with a slower burn and light femdom
Ages:
- heroine is 31, turns 32 in the story, hero is 33
First line:
Some parents keep their grown children’s bedrooms like shrines.
My thoughts:
This was more of a 3 star read for me but I rounded up because I really liked the kiss in the server room when the power went out and also love corn nuggets lol.
This story is a pleasant fall read! Slower burn with lovely mains that have real problems and flaws. I liked the neighbors being pumpkin growing rivals and the playfulness that can come with that. I liked both mains individually...but something happened with them together that I just didn’t feel it for some reason. Maybe I just didn’t feel the high stakes here like I get when reading historical romance...Sadie just didn’t see that into Josh and she didn’t decide she wanted to really give it a go until everyone in her family gave her reasons….and that bothered me. I felt like she wasn’t really invested in the relationship and some scenes of the book just left me….sad.
But that is really just me – the narration was good, I liked the small town setting and I think those setting their sights on a competitive opposites attract fall themed read should grab this one up!
I liked Adelaide Fernport’s narration for the most part. I think my biggest struggle was her voice just sounded very similar for narration, female and male voices so it made the book a bit more...monotone feeling to me? But overall it was fine and I enjoyed the narration and didn’t have to alter the speed or anything from what I usually like.
Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: This is my first
Average rating from me: 4 stars
Favorite book: This one by default.
Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.
- parental abandonment and toxic parenting
- talk of abortion and divorce (side character)
Author content warnings? Didn’t hear any on audio
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex aspects, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:
Safe sex: Condoms used
How’s the consent? It’s good
Pregnancy/children in story? Heroine doesn’t want children, but her sister does a surprise pregnancy towards the end of the book and talks abortion. She has the baby and the heroine is an aunt in the epilogue.
Chapter 10 (43%) - kisses in a server room with the power out
Chapter 11 (49%) - heroine self pleasure but interrupted
Chapter 12 – 🔥 she invites him to watch and leads to mutual masturbation
Chapter 15 (62%) - kisses at the art gallergy
Chapter 16 (65%) - 🔥she ties him to the bed and they use sex toys, her on top
Chapter 18 (73%) - 🔥bj for him, doggy (?)
Chapter 23 (85%) - kisses, touches
Total chapters: 27 and an epilogue
Readability: 📖📖📖📖 (I started on e-book but switched to audio and was able to read much faster)
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋 (This one didn’t grab me in regards to feeling an emotional connection with the mains)
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔 (I think you get a pretty good back story from the mains and who they are, their struggles)
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡ (It was mild for me)
Romance: 💞💞 (I did not find this one romantic)
Sensuality: 💋💋💋 (I liked them fine but something was just missing a bit for me. Maybe I wasn’t emotionally attached the characters enough to really feel it)
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥 (at least, I might have missed some)
Humor: Yes, a bit
Perspective: third person from the hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: soon in, 4% (chapter 1 of 28)
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes, one year later
Format: voluntarily read an advanced reader copy in e-book format through NetGalley but switched to audiobook (again from NetGalley) at about 30%
Why I chose this book: I liked the cover!
Mains: This is a M/F relationship between I believe a cishet hero and bisexual heroine (she mentions past girlfriends)
Should I read in order?
I think this one stands alone.
Basic plot:
Sadie believes home holds nothing for her. But she returns anyway to assist her dad’s pumpkins in winning the local SPICE Pumpkin Weigh-off only to find the entire patch destroyed. Luckily her interesting neighbor, creator of Josh’s Squashes is willing to give her some starts to get back in the competition.
Give this a try if you want:
- contemporary romance
- Indiana, USA setting
- small town – Pea Blossom
- rich, squash growing hero
- textile artist heroine
- opposites attract – a black cat heroine and an eager to please hero
- neighbors
- tattooed heroine
- plus size rep (heroine)
- fall themes
- rivals – they are both trying to grow the biggest pumpkin in the S.P.I.C.E. competition
- medium steam – 3 full scenes at least (I might have missed something) with a slower burn and light femdom
Ages:
- heroine is 31, turns 32 in the story, hero is 33
First line:
Some parents keep their grown children’s bedrooms like shrines.
My thoughts:
This was more of a 3 star read for me but I rounded up because I really liked the kiss in the server room when the power went out and also love corn nuggets lol.
This story is a pleasant fall read! Slower burn with lovely mains that have real problems and flaws. I liked the neighbors being pumpkin growing rivals and the playfulness that can come with that. I liked both mains individually...but something happened with them together that I just didn’t feel it for some reason. Maybe I just didn’t feel the high stakes here like I get when reading historical romance...Sadie just didn’t see that into Josh and she didn’t decide she wanted to really give it a go until everyone in her family gave her reasons….and that bothered me. I felt like she wasn’t really invested in the relationship and some scenes of the book just left me….sad.
But that is really just me – the narration was good, I liked the small town setting and I think those setting their sights on a competitive opposites attract fall themed read should grab this one up!
I liked Adelaide Fernport’s narration for the most part. I think my biggest struggle was her voice just sounded very similar for narration, female and male voices so it made the book a bit more...monotone feeling to me? But overall it was fine and I enjoyed the narration and didn’t have to alter the speed or anything from what I usually like.
Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: This is my first
Average rating from me: 4 stars
Favorite book: This one by default.
Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.
- parental abandonment and toxic parenting
- talk of abortion and divorce (side character)
Author content warnings? Didn’t hear any on audio
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex aspects, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:
Safe sex:
How’s the consent?
Pregnancy/children in story?
Chapter 10 (43%) - kisses in a server room with the power out
Chapter 11 (49%) - heroine self pleasure but interrupted
Chapter 12 – 🔥 she invites him to watch and leads to mutual masturbation
Chapter 15 (62%) - kisses at the art gallergy
Chapter 16 (65%) - 🔥she ties him to the bed and they use sex toys, her on top
Chapter 18 (73%) - 🔥bj for him, doggy (?)
Chapter 23 (85%) - kisses, touches
Total chapters: 27 and an epilogue