Dash Fan Book Reviews

The Little Board Game Café  by Jennifer Page I would like to thank for Aria Fiction and Netgalley for my copy of this wonderful book! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷    Book Description via Netgalley An irresistible story of love, friendship and the power of Games Night, perfect for fans of Holly Martin and Christie Barlow. When Emily loses her job, house and boyfriend all within a matter of days, she's determined to turn a negative into a positive and follow her dream of running a small cafe in the gorgeous Yorkshire village of Essendale. But she quickly finds she's bitten off more than she can chew when the 'popular' cafe she takes over turns out to secretly be a failing business. Emily desperately needs a way to turn things around, and help comes from the unlikeliest of places when she meets local board game-obsessed GP Ludek. But when a major chain coffee shop opens on the high street, Emily is forced to question if she'll ever be able to compete. Ha...

A Little Christmas Panto  by Angela Britnell I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅 Book Information Can a little Cornish village panto convince a troubled Hollywood heart throb to act again? Oh no it won’t! At least that’s what Zach Broussard initially thinks when the eccentric Anna Teague tries to railroad him into helping out with her community pantomime production in the run-up to Christmas. Zach has his reasons for leaving Hollywood behind, and his retreat to the remote village of Polcarne in Cornwall signals the start of a new acting free life for him. But when Zach meets Anna’s daughter, Rosey – an ex concert pianist who has swapped Mozart for panto tunes – he starts to wonder whether he could change his mind, and not just about acting. If nothing else, will the residents of Polcarne ensure Zach has a Christmas he never forgets? Oh yes they will! Purchase Link - https://mybook.to/alittle...

The Break-Up Agency  by Sheila McClure I would like to Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Ellie Shaw loves love. Unfortunately, she’s also an expert in break-ups. When a friend needs help with her ‘too nice to dump’ boyfriend, Ellie agrees to help. What she doesn’t expect is for American Dan to be kind, caring, to love dogs and look like a Disney hero. In other words, completely too good to be true. She lets him down with grace and, encouraged by her friends, sets up Softer Landings, offering kinder, gentler break-ups. A year later American Dan reappears in her life. With a new girlfriend. One who also decides he’s not the one for her. The team hatch a plan to let Dan down easy, but while Ellie attempts to lead him gently away, real sparks start to fly. There’s just one big problem she can’t ignore. Can Ellie reveal that their romance is the result of an elaborate con without it feeling like a hug...

Radio Ha Ha  by Kiltie Jackson  I would like to thank Zooloo's Blog Tours and SpellBound Books for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Will a blind date on the radio blossom into romance on the airwaves ? DJ Marky Sparks is hanging onto his career by a thread - he needs a miracle. Steven Byrne has an invite to his brother’s "Couples Only" party – he needs a date. Matilda 'Mats' Davidson has dumped her cheating boyfriend – she doesn’t need anything. A drunken email brings these three strangers together and changes their lives in ways they couldn’t have foreseen. Mats Davidson has just dumped her cheating boyfriend so is less than impressed to find herself, thanks to her interfering best friend, taking part in a radio version of Blind Date barely two hours later. Steven Byrne can’t attend his brother’s “Couples Only” engagement party without a date and is horrified to find he’s sent a drunken email to a local ra...

Autumn in Sycamore Park  by CP Ward  I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information The first in a new romantic comedy series from CP Ward, author of Christmas at Marshmallow Café and Summer at Blue Sands Cove. Having fled a relationship and a previous life she would rather forget, young teacher Jennifer Stevens throws herself into a demanding new job at Brentwell Primary. Charged with marshalling a group of unruly eight-year-olds to the autumn harvest festival, her only solace is the peace of nearby Sycamore Park. As the evenings draw in and the leaves begin to fall, will new friends, delicious autumn treats, and a possible new man on the orange-tinted horizon help Jennifer finally come to terms with her past and begin to look forward into the future? Autumn at Sycamore Park is another delightful romantic comedy from CP Ward, author of several popular seasonally themed novels. Set ag...

One Night in Edinburgh  by Nina Kaye I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources and Canelo for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information One night. But how many second chances? Heartbroken on Hogmanay, Steph wanders through the Edinburgh street party until she bumps into Jamie. He’s funny, attractive and clearly interested. In a word, he’s perfect – but she didn’t get his number. All she remembers is his lime and mango beer.   Determined to be reunited, Steph tracks him by a milk carton style campaign, sticking a message to his favourite beer across local pubs. Although eventually reunited, Jamie is frequently uncontactable and evasive, and Steph worries she’s on the path to heartbreak once more. There’s a fine line between being patient and being gullible, and Steph’s reaching her limit. When a chance encounter with Jamie reveals his secret, she faces an even tougher decision. Should Steph give love another chance, or w...

The Spanish Wedding Disaster  by Karen King I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources & Headline Accent for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Some people are romantics. Some aren’t. When Sophie and Maddie are summoned to a mysterious, top-secret meeting by their best friend Kate’s partner, and told that he’s planning to whisk Kate away for a surprise wedding in Gibraltar, it’s immediately clear that bubbly florist Sophie is a total romantic. And that freewheeling, purple-haired Maddie is not.   Soon, Maddie finds herself reluctantly organising venues, planners and ceremonies; trying not to think of her own memories of Andalucia, and those she’s lost touch with there. Meanwhile Sophie’s hoping this dreamy gesture might spur on her own boyfriend to similar plans . . . and absolutely not thinking at all about Kate’s gorgeous brother-in-law-to-be.   But Kate’s got no idea what’s going on. And as the stress piles...

Marriage Unarranged  by Ritu Bhathal I would like to thank Zooloo's Blog Tours and SpellBound Books for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information  It all s̶t̶a̶r̶t̶e̶d̶ ended with that box… The year 2000 and Aashi’s life was all set. New Millennium ,exciting beginnings, new life. Or so she thought. Like in the Bollywood films, Ravi would woo her, charm her family and they’d get married and live happily ever after. But then Aashi found the empty condom box... Putting her ex-fiancé and her innocence behind her, Aashi embarks upon an enlightening journey, to another country, where vibrant memories are created, and unforgettable friendships forged. Old images erased, new beginnings to explore. And how can she forget the handsome stranger she meets? A stranger who’s hiding something… Coming Summer 2023 , book 2 in The Rishtay Series  Buy Links Amazon UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Marriage-Unarranged-Rishtay-Book-ebook/dp/B09SBS...

The Undateable Gay  by Mark David Woollard I would like to thank Zooloo's Blog Tours and SpellBound Books for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌈💘🍾❤️‍🩹🌈💘🍾❤️‍🩹🌈💘🍾❤️‍🩹🌈💘🍾❤️‍🩹 Book Information Think you’re unlucky in love ? You know nothing of dating misery until you’ve delved into the world of the undatable gay Mark Morgan just can’t catch a break. As he documents his struggles through the dating minefield of the gay world, Mark tries to find the answer to the eternal question: does Mr Right truly exist? With his best friend and fag hag, Tullene for support and a bottle of Savvy B (or 6), he battles his way through failed date after date. And ponders many a profound question: How much savvy B is too much? Will he ever be able to bottom? Should you wear Ugg boots on a first date? Can you find love in a gay sauna? One man keeps popping up ( pardon the pun) like a proverbial bad penny, but will Mark ever bag Travis. Or should he leave him where he found him- in hi...