There’s Pumpkin About You

By: Athena Carstairs

Narrated by: Davis Brooks, Noura Brown

One determined party planner + one grumpy pumpkin farmer = a fall to remember…

Given the chance to plan her bestie’s 30th birthday bash, Wren Southwick is determined to create an experience so big and so bold that the name of her party planning business spreads beyond the confines of her own small town.

The key to her plan? The Finch family’s Goldleaf Pumpkin Farm. It’s not just the perfect venue but also the perfect supply partner for the autumnal-themed bash Wren envisions. But to get what she wants – and needs – she’ll have to get gorgeous grouch August Finch on board.

The table is set, and the battle is about to begin … but who will fall first?

©2025 Athena Carstairs (P)2025 HarperCollins Publishers

loved it!

very unique and different! very good story, told very well!! I highly recommend it! you won't regret it!

Finally a different kind of love story

I picked up this book because of all the fall feels, and I’m so glad that I did. The love story is so sweet, especially being that the main character is autistic as a mother of an autistic young boy. It just melted my heart the thought that he one day will have a beautiful love story and we all deserve to be loved and I just love how great this love story was depicted.

All parties involved are annoying

If I could give this a 2.5 I would. But I’ll settle on a 3. The romance is written pretty well and it has its cute moments. However, both main characters are incredibly insufferable. Can’t seem to communicate with each other and one of the excuses is that one of them is autistic. All of the story is background. As in most of the important thoughts and actions are done in a fade to black type scene, and then jumps back into a story where we have to hear from the characters what happened.

I am not autistic but, I will say this isn’t the representation I would want if I were. Not only is the main love interest mean, but it’s excused with “no but it’s because he has autism”. I don’t think it was done maliciously. I just think it wasn’t intended to read that way.

I melted

Until around chapter 20, I was about to stop listening. But then things got HEATED, and I quite literally MELTED! I would pay a million bucks to watch this as a movie!

MCM Annoyance

The storyline was cute. August annoyed me and I feel like his autism was highlighted negatively throughout the storyline until the end. Still a cute read but he did annoy me.