[rating based on personal enjoyment; your mileage may vary]
+ Excellent artwork
+ Cool theme of basically a Fall festival
+ Acknowledges how you can be in love with the idea/fantasy of a person without really knowing them
- Josiah "Josie" is boring
- Deja's whole existence is to be Josie's friend

and to have those longing gazes for this bland dude

- Her character is "dates a bunch of people and likes food."

I like that she's so personable and outgoing, but, instead of centering around how many bf/gfs she's had maybe bring it back to her not being afraid to talk to people. With the sighing-girl, when Josie's like how did you date her? Deja could've been like "I wouldn't have thought so either until she asked me out. Get it, Josie? You never know until you make a move." That would have been interesting and you learn a little about her hobbies/events she frequents that way.

- She needed a side-plot of her own or some type of event centering around her that was not food-related
- No, to that half-baked-trash love confession.

Good on Deja for halfway calling it out. Why she gotta be 2nd place/ his plan B? He didn't authentically come to realize he had some type of feelings for her. He was just like Marcy hates the pumpkin festival? Well, I love you, Deja. I always have. You're October, you're Fall, you're the sun and the moon.

Little boy, where is this coming from!?! I would've bumped up the rating if Josiah had an epiphany before he got to Marcy. As it is now, Deja's just a placeholder until he gets who he really wants.

SN: Deja's very direct, so I'm surprised she kept her feelings secret for so long. He's soooo bland like cornbread, but there's something she likes about him, I guess.

(*) Y'know, I'm not sure about page/story constraints, but I would have liked to learn some cool tidbits about our two main characters. Like, while they were on this goose-chase, it could've been cool for them to talk about their life or something outside of Marcy.

The fact that I hate all things pumpkin-flavored did not in any way influence this review.