Dash Fan Book Reviews

Rain City Lights by Marissa Harrison I would like to thank R&R Book Toirs for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄 Book Information Publication Date: October 1st, 2021 (Hardcover Edition) Genre:  NA/ NA Mystery Coming of age and mystery blend in this stark, yet atmospheric tale of love and loss. A young woman is pushed onto the streets where she learns the harsh realities of what it means to survive, to serve justice, and to fight for the man she loves. As they navigate their way through Seattle’s Underground, Monti & Sasha will break and warm your heart! In the summer of 1981, a serial killer preys on black, teenage prostitutes working Seattle’s arterial highways. But the eyes of youth are blind to danger, and Montgomery “Monti” Jackson is distracted by her own problems. She’ll be starting high school soon, and the return of her mother’s boyfriend heightens the tension in her fractured household. To add to her worries, ...

The Boy Who Breathed Underwater  by Izzy Rees  I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources and Full Media Ltd for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄 Book Information When lying in his bed, a boy is visited by a genie. He is given a week to try out different superhero powers. What adventures will he have, and which power will he choose to keep? Purchase Links https://full-media.co.uk/product/the-boy-who-breathed-underwater-izzy-rees/ https://izzyrees.co.uk/product/the-boy-who-breathed-underwater-izzy-rees/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boy-Who-Breathed-Underwater-ebook/dp/B09GMDBHS2 https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Breathed-Underwater-ebook/dp/B09GMDBHS2   🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄 My Review 5☆ A Children's Picture Book that's Entertaining, Lots of Fun and Thought Provoking. The Boy Who Breathed Underwater is a picture book about a young boy who dreams to be different and have a super power. So a geni...

29 Locks  by Nicola Garrard I would like to thank The Book Network Team for inviting me on this wonderful  Blog Tour. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻   Book Information    Coming-of-age novel set in contemporary London and Hertfordshire. Fifteen year- old Donald Leroy Samson is the son of an absentee St Lucian father and a drug-addicted English mother. Growing up in dire poverty in Hackney, East London, his life is shaped by casual violence, gang initiation, drug-dealing and knife crime. When Donny’s bored, rich, white girlfriend Zoe is offered a dubious modelling audition, the couple ‘borrow’ a barge and navigate the  29   locks  on the canal system from Hertfordshire down into Kings Cross. When they start out on their journey, the future for both of them looks unpromising, like the fake audition, but as each  lock  is navigated and conquered, as the waters fall then rise again, their adventure takes on a new dimension. Life will never...

Ten Steps To Us  by Attiya Khan.  I would like to thank Helen at LitPR for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour  🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻    Book Information What if you met the boy of your dreams but loving him was forbidden?  Aisha Rashid is used to being invisible or bullied and overshadowed by best friend Isabelle. So no one is more surprised than her when Darren Brady, the hot new boy in school, takes an interest in her and not Isabelle. But Aisha is a devout hijab-wearing Muslim and Darren is off limits. Does she follow her heart even if it means losing her own identity? And is Darren really all that he seems? If only there was a way she could keep the boy and her faith. Maybe there is a way? All it takes are ten steps... Talking points:   Breaking down perceptions of growing up as a Muslim teenage girl in the UK.   Learning about boundaries and toxic friendships.   First love and all the emotions that come with it!...

Big Feelings by Alexandra Penfold & Suzanne Kaufman Thank you to Bloomsbury Children's Books and Netgalley for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information I have big feelings. You have them too. How can I help? What can we do? Follow a group of children through a day in their neighbourhood, as they play together and navigate the BIG feelings that we all experience. What should we do when things don’t go to plan? We may feel angry, frustrated or overwhelmed; we may feel hopeful, tired or even . . . inspired. No matter how we’re feeling or how different we are, it’s never too late to talk things through and learn to see the world from another point of view. Warm and inspiring, this uplifting picture book helps children name and acknowledge feelings of all kinds, and learn to put themselves in others’ shoes. Because whatever we’re feeling, we’re never alone. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  My Review 4☆ Engaging, Hea...

The Charity of Strangers  by Alison Burke I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour,  and for my copy of the book which  I reviewed honestly  and voluntarily. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information You can find almost anything in a charity shop, but can you find love?             You can certainly find friendship and there is both laughter and tears ahead when 19yr old Zaffron, lonely, anxious and without direction, meets Blaire Daintry, good-looking, charming, and gay.             Both volunteers in the charity shop, he has a hidden agenda, she has secrets,  but they are friends from the start, despite Blaire’s constant sparring with Ida, the stern, good-hearted older volunteer who Zaffron admires. And perhaps Ida has secrets too.           ...

Girl with Secrets  by Carol Rivers I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information A coming of age war story and family saga full of romance, mystery and danger in London’s East End. From the Sunday Times and ebook bestselling author of the  Lizzie Flowers  series and  A Wartime Christmas  comes a gripping NEW coming-of-age saga about love, loyalties and secrets. IN THE TURMOIL OF WAR, CAN SHE KEEP HER FAMILY TOGETHER? 'Surely one of the best saga writers of her time' – Rosie Clarke 1938, East London.  Nine year old Daisy Purbright is a country girl at heart and together with beloved brother Bobby, they’ve enjoyed the endless freedoms of rural England. But when her father gambles the family’s fortunes on a speculative investment in London’s docklands, Daisy and her family are swept up into the  intrigue, danger and excitement. Desperately the Purbrig...