Dash Fan Book Reviews

Who Am I? By Vie Portland I would like to thank Hygge Book Tours for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information In  Who Am I?  Emily and her mum imaginatively explore who she is. In a study done in 2020/21, it was found that most children wouldn’t make friends with someone who looked different to them; this could be because of their size, their colour, or their disability. It’s not too surprising, really. Have a think about the villains in films and books; what do they look like? Many of them are fat, or bald, disabled or disfigured. It highlights the differences we have. I don’t like it. And that’s why, in my Emily stories, the stories aren’t about her disability, about how she looks different, because I want readers to see that we all have far more in common than that which makes us different; I want readers to see that, when we accept and celebrate our differences, our worlds open up to so much more joy, to so many more experi...

Our Bloody Pearl  by D. N. Bryn  I received this book to read and review as part of the 2021 BBNYA competition and the BBNYA tours organised by the TWR Tour team. All opinions are my own, unbiased and honest. 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Publisher: Bryn Books Length: 206 Pages Date Published: 26th July 2018 The ocean is uncontrollable and dangerous. But to the sirens who swim the warm island waters, it’s a home more than worth protecting from the humans and their steam-propelled ships. Between their hypnotic voices and the strength of their powerful tails, sirens have little to fear. That is, until the ruthless pirate captain, Kian, creates a device to cancel out their songs. Perle was the first siren captured, and while all since have either been sold or killed, Kian still keeps them prisoner. Though their song is muted and their tail paralyzed, Perle’s hope for escape rekindles as another pirating vessel seizes Kian’s ship. This new captain seems differe...

Princess No Knots  by Deborah Dillon I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Princess No Knots LOVES her long golden hair as much as she LOVES her bath time, but she does NOT love having it brushed. When her flowing locks end up in knots, the King tells her they will have to be cut and takes away her crown. Enter a world of determination, sprinkled with a small dose of magic, to find out if the strong-willed Princess finds a way to get back her crown, keep her name and save the hair she so loves. A must read rhyming picture book for any parent who struggles with the dreaded 'hair wash' night! Available on amazon.co.uk. Purchase Link -  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Princess-No-Knots-Deborah-Dillon/dp/1399905589/ 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 My Review 4☆  A Delightful Children's Picture Book Princess No Knots has beautiful long golden hair but one thing she dislikes more th...

Olive's Birthday  by Elizabeth Milbourn I would like to thank Clink Street Publishing and Kaleidoscopic Tours for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Publisher: Clink Street Publishing Release Date: 1 st March 2022 Age range: Picture Book Olive is very excited about her birthday! What presents will she get? What sort of party will she have? What will her birthday cake be like? Help Olive Choose.  In this first book of the Choosy Olive series, the reader gets to decide how Olive's birthday unfolds. See if you can dodge the odd outcomes.  Help children feel empowered and learn about the consequences of choice from an early age in a fun and silly way with Olive as she embarks on her day to day childhood journey.  🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷  Excerpt 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Author Bio Elizabeth’s book, Olive’s Birthday , has been a work in progress for over 5 years. Life got in the way a bit...

Kai & The Dancing Butterfly  by Crystal Z Lee I would like to thank Kate Rock Book Tours and B alestier Press  for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Kai and Ami are dancing butterflies from Taiwan! They have a performance coming up at the Winter Festival dance show in the southern part of the island. They are currently in northern Taiwan, so they need to hurry and start flying south. That's far for a butterfly! Kai is worried about the long journey, and about the big show too. Can Kai step up to the challenge? Kai the Dancing Butterfly  celebrates Taiwan's natural scenic wonders, amazing animal species, and incredible Indigenous cultures. This children's book is a marvelous read for all those who love Taiwan, or for those who'd like to learn more about Taiwanese culture. This elaborately illustrated picture book makes an ideal gift: *Real locations in Taiwan make for an inspiring geography, history and cultura...

Wedding Wobbles  by Amanda Paull   I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Laura and Ben have survived all manner of family mayhem. They are, against the odds, still together. A perfect wedding and happy ever after are on the horizon. Or are they? After no end of spokes in their wheels, our favourite lovebirds have named the day. A small do in a lovely venue, with a handful of family and friends to help them celebrate. So where does the ungrateful pasty-loving woman come in? And when Laura and Ben are wrestling with scraggy flowers and rum-soaked fruit cake, where are Maureen and Fenella? If you enjoyed the first four stories in the  Scott Family  series of romantic mayhem, you’ll love  Wedding Wobbles , the final instalment. Download this funny, heart-warming novella today to find out whether Laura and Ben get their perfect wedding, or their families finall...

Shit Happens  by Eileen Wharton I would like to thank Zooloo's Blog Tours for inviting me on this wonderful  International Women's Day Festival!  🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Rose Starling, abused wife, is living on benefits with her three children on an estate in a small town near Newcastle. Trying to keep one step ahead of the tallyman she dances in the shadows of various illegal dealings. She’s got problems though when bits of her ex-husband keep turning up in different places and the slimey DI Savage seems to be bending the evidence to link her to the murder. Adding to her troubles, she has to work in a topless bar to make ends meet and she’s being pressured into taking a “ job” for hard as nails Vera Devlin from the estate. Desperate to extricate herself from the mess, she breaks into her old marital home to find the diary of her dead husband, setting off an explosive chain of events. Set against a backdrop of Northern council estate life, this f...