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...

Eleven Days in June  by R. Gibson Colley I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour  🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁  Book Information Devon, 1985. Dan is 20, lives in a sleepy village and works in a small DIY shop. He likes numbers and hero worships Lord Nelson. But he finds ordinary people difficult to understand and he’s certainly never kissed a girl. His mother mocks him, and he misses his father and he pines for Ollie, his only childhood friend who truly understood him.   But, despite it all, Dan thinks he’s happy enough. Until one June day, the beautiful and mysterious Libby walks into his shop - and into Dan's life.   Libby’s sudden appearance turns Dan’s ordered existence upside down. But Dan soon realises that Libby isn’t who she seems. Who exactly is she? What is she hiding, and, more importantly, who’s that threatening man always looking for her?   In trying to help Libby, Dan comes to realise what’s missing...

Get a life chloe brown  by Talia Hibbert Thank you to Little Brown Book Group and Netgalley  for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁  Book Information Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan and a list. After almost - but not quite - dying, she's come up with a list of directives to help her 'Get a Life': - Enjoy a drunken night out - Ride a motorbike - Go camping - Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex - Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage - And . . . do something bad But it's not easy being bad, even when you've written out step-by-step guidelines. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job: Redford 'Red' Morgan. With tattoos and a motorbike, Red is the perfect helper in her mission to rebel, but as they spend more time together, Chloe realises there's much more to him than his tough exterior implies. Soon she's left wanting more from ...

The Phantom Killer and Her Autistic Son: A Mother's Journey to Love and Acceptance  by Grace Venters I would like to thank Love Books Tours for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour  🎄☃️🤶🎄🎅🎄☃️🤶🎄🎅🎄☃️🤶🎄🎅🎄  Book Information Genre : Non-fiction - Biography - Parenting - Children’s Autism   Pages :149 Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. - The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost Life is a journey, and decisions have to be made. Which way should you go? As a parent, you’re expected to know the answer to this question, but when you’re struggling to raise an autistic child, nothing is set in stone. In The Phantom Killer and her Autistic Son, Grace Venters chronicles life with her son, William from his early years to adulthood. Her honest, no holes barred approach will resonate with any parent who finds their child not developing as society expects. With an autistic child, nobody can tell you e...

Cookfulness  by Ian Taverna I would like to thank Authoright and Clink Street Publishing for inviting me on this fabulous Blog Tour  🍁👻🎃🍁👻🎃🍁👻🎃🍁👻🎃🍁👻🎃🍁  Book Title: Cookfulness: A Therapeutic Approach to Cooking  Author: Ian Taverner  Genre: Non-Fiction  Publication Date: 29th October 2020  Page Count: 154  Publisher: Clink Street Publishing  Summary   Create Space For The Happy Stuff! This cookbook is crammed full of new and innovative ways, hints and tips, designed specifically for people with chronic pain and mental health conditions, by me, a fellow sufferer.  It is all to help you WANT to cook, not have to! Cooking really can be a therapy. Cooking really can ignite your passions. Cooking really is possible!  If you are having a bad day, I want to make it better. If you are having a better day, I want to make it good. If you are having a good day, I want to make it great. If you are having a great da...

Anna  by Laura Guthrie On my Blog today I have the pleasure of  Sharing with you....... Anna 🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻 Book Information  Every cloud has a silver lining... doesn’t it? Anna is thirteen years old, lives in London with her father, and has Asperger’s syndrome.  When her father dies, she moves to Scotland to live with her estranged, reclusive mother.  With little support to help her  t in, she must use every coping strategy her father taught her—especially her ‘Happy Game’—as she tries to connect with her mother, discover her past, and deal with the challenges of being thrown into a brand new life along the way.  🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻 Author Bio Laura Guthrie grew up in the rural Scottish Highlands (“I come from where the planes don’t fly”). Her creative influences include Nessie and the elusive ‘Caiplich Beast’, as well as some choice authors and their works. She has an honours degree in biological sciences from the Universit...