Dash Fan Book Reviews

MINE  by Clare Empson On my Blog today I have the pleasure of  Sharing with you........ MINE I would like to thank Tracy at Compulsive Readers Tours and Clare Empson  🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷 Book Information  'Who am I? Why am I here? Why did my mother give me away?' On the surface, Luke and his girlfriend Hannah seem to have a perfect life. He's an A&R man, she's an arts correspondent and they are devoted to their new-born son Samuel. But beneath the gloss Luke has always felt like an outsider. So when he finds his birth mother Alice, the instant connection with her is a little like falling in love. When Hannah goes back to work, Luke asks Alice to look after their son. But Alice - fuelled with grief from when her baby was taken from her 27 years ago - starts to fall in love with Samuel. And Luke won't settle for his mother pushing him aside once again... Amazon link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mine-...

A Year in the Château  by Sarah Long On my blog today I have the pleasure of  sharing with you........... A Year in the Château   I would like to thank Tracy at Compulsive Readers Tours, Zaffre Books and Sarah Long for inviting me on the blog tour. 🌻💕🌻💕🌻💕🌻💕🌻💕🌻💕🌻💕🌻💕🌻💕 Book Information  When Nicola's husband, Dominic, retires they decide not to spend their days finding hobbies to fill the time until Countdown is on. Instead, they fulfil their life-long fantasy of buying a country house and filling it with their dearest friends. Reliving their youth and spending their children's inheritance. Joined by seven of their friends they club together to invest in a château in Normandy. Group dinners, fine wine, beautiful scenery - they're living the dream! But la vie en rose is harder than it first appears. Is there a reason why only teenagers take gap years? This is sharp, irreverent and very funny women's fiction for grown ...

The Beekeeper of Aleppo  by Christy Lefteri On my blog today I have the pleasure of  sharing with you......... The Beekeeper of Aleppo  I would like to thank Tracy at Compulsive Readers Tours and Christy Lefteri for inviting me on the  blog tour  🧡📚🧡📚🧡📚🧡📚🧡📚🧡📚🧡📚🧡 Book Information  In the midst of war, he found love In the midst of darkness, he found courage In the midst of tragedy, he found hope Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo - until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape. But what Afra has seen is so terrible she has gone blind, and so they must embark on a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece towards an uncertain future in Britain. On the way, Nuri is sustained by the knowledge that waiting for them is Mustafa, his cousin and ...

Moonlight Over Mayfair  by Anton Du Beke   On my blog today I have the pleasure of  sharing with you........ Moonlight Over Mayfair  I would like to thank Tracy at Compulsive Readers Tours and Anton Du Beke for inviting me on the  blog tour. 💃💕🕺💕💃💕🕺💕💃💕🕺💕💃💕🕺💕 Book Information  London, 1937. With a new king in place, tensions are rising in London and across Europe. Shaken by the Great Depression and with talk of another war coming, the Buckingham Hotel is trying to regain some stability. Upstairs, Vivienne Edgerton is desperate to do something worthwhile with her time and her stepfather's money, rather than spending it on frivolity and debauchery - but will this land her in even more trouble? And downstairs, chambermaid Nancy Nettleton is finally starting to feel more settled at the Buckingham, and hopes her brother will soon call London home, too. But she misses the man she loves, demonstratio...

The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep  by H.G. Parry On my blog today I have the pleasure of  sharing with you............ The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep  I would like to thank Tracy at Compulsive Readers Tours, Little Brown Book Group and  H.G. Parry 💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚💚 Book Information  For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite control: he can bring characters from books into the real world. His older brother, Rob - a young lawyer with an utterly normal life - hopes that this strange family secret will disappear with disuse, and he will be discharged from his duty of protecting Charley and the real world from each other. But then, literary characters start causing trouble in their city, making threats about destroying the world, and for once, it isn't Charley's doing. There's someone else out there who shares his powers and it's up to Charley and a reluctan...

The 24-Hour Café  By Libby Page On my blog today I have the pleasure of  sharing with you......... The 24-Hour Café  I would like to thank Tracy at Compulsive Readers Tours and Libby Page for inviting me on the  blog tour.  💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚 Book Information  Day and night Stella’s Café opens its doors for the lonely and the lost, the morning people and the night owls. It is many things to many people but most of all it is a place where life can wait at the door. A place of small kindnesses. A place where anyone can be whoever they want, where everyone is always welcome. Meet Hannah and Mona: best friends, waitresses, dreamers. They work at Stella’s but they dream of more, of leaving the café behind and making their own way in life. Come inside and spend twenty-four hours at Stella’s Café; a day when Hannah and Mona’s friendship will be tested, when the community will come together and when live...

I COULD BE YOU  by SHEILA BUGLER On my blog today I have the pleasure of  sharing with you..........   I COULD BE YOU  I would like to thank Tracy at Compulsive Readers Tours, Canelo and SHEILA BUGLER for inviting me on the blog tour. 💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚💚📚 About the book A life has been taken. But whose life is it? On a stifling hot day, former journalist Dee Doran finds the crumpled body of her friend at the roadside. Katie and her little boy, Jake, have been a light in Dee’s otherwise desolate life – now a woman is dead and her son is missing. Katie has been keeping secrets for a long time. Years earlier, she fell for the wrong person. But he was in love with someone else; who he couldn’t have but couldn’t keep away from. When jealousy and desire spilled over into murder Katie hid the truth, and has been pretending ever since. As Dee assists the police with their enquiries she’s compelled to investigat...