Let's Give 'Em Pumpkin to Talk About

Author: Isabelle Popp Title: Let's Give 'Em Pumpkin to Talk About Publisher: Harlequin Date Published: 08/26/2025

Read Dates: 07/XX/2025- 07/XX/2025
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

 📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

Let's Give 'Em Pumpkin to Talk About is a dual POV black cat/golden retriever romance. Sadie is a textile artist who left Indiana and her father's pumpkin farm as soon as she could, but she gets called back home when her father has to leave the farm unattended to go take care of his injured brother. Once home, she finds her father's prized pumpkin patch destroyed, and meets the sunshiney new neighbor Josh when he rides (literally) to the rescue. Josh is entralled by Sadie, her penchant for black clothes and her prickly personality, and the two form an unlikely partnership. But Sadie has a life back in California, and a small farm in Indiana is just a pit stop!

This was a fantastic read! I loved the complicated relationships that Sadie had with people in her life, and her searching out the good memories that she had pushed out of her mind over the years. I loved how absolutely gone Josh was for her and the way that neither of them hid their true selves from the other, the absolute honesty of their interactions was a breath of fresh air. I will definitely be on the lookout for more from this author.

She’s a little edgy. He’s a lot of sunshine.

Love’s about to catch them completely off gourd…

Textile artist Sadie Fox did not sign up for this. When she agreed to come home to Pea Blossom, Indiana, it was to care for her father’s beloved pumpkin patch. The deal was that—just for the summer—she would grow a ginormous pumpkin, win the Indiana State Fair's pumpkin contest and finally win back her father’s (grudging) respect.

Instead, a horde of wild hogs destroyed the. entire. patch. Which is precisely when the annoyingly sexy, sunshiny next-door neighbor shows up.

Josh Thatcher is a tech millionaire who traded in the office for growing gourds, including experimental squash hybrids. And for the life of her, Sadie can’t understand what he sees in her sweary, tattooed, prickly self—or why he’s offering to help his biggest competitor. But a storm-fueled kiss proves there’s definitely something growing between them.

Maybe it’s just attraction. Maybe it’s more. Whatever it is, it’s already bigger than Sadie’s fast-growing pumpkin…or the secret that Josh has been hiding.