Dash Fan Book Reviews

Falling Hard for the Royal Guard  by Megan Clawson  Thank you to Avon Books and Netgalley for this copy which I reviewed honestly  and voluntarily. 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷    Book Information Love is in the heir in this  royally  good rom com debut releasing in Spring 2023 – perfect for anyone who likes relatable heroines (with great hair), hot and aloof book boyfriends, and near misses and almost kisses. Despite living in an actual castle, happily ever after is evading Margaret ‘Maggie’ Moore. From her bedroom in the Tower of London, twenty-six-year-old Maggie has always dreamed of her own fairy-tale ending. Yet this is twenty-first century London, so instead of knights, she has Tinder, and instead of white horses, she has catfish. And with her last relationship ending in spectacular fashion, she swears off men for good. And then a chance encounter with Royal Guard Freddie forces Maggie to admit that she isn’t ready to give up on love ju...

Saturday's at Noon  by Rachel Marks On my Blog Today I have the pleasure of  Sharing with you............ Saturday's at Noon  I would like to thank Michael Joseph Publishers and Rachel Marks for inviting me on the Blog Tour. 🌻💕🌻💕🌻💕🌻💕🌻💕🌻💕🌻💕🌻💕🌻💕 Book Information  When Jake and Emily meet, sparks fly. And not the good kind . . . Emily just wants to keep the world away. She doesn't want anyone to know all the ways her life is messed up. Going to anger management every Saturday, talking to strangers, was not part of the plan. Jake just wants to keep his family together. He's also messed everything up. Going to anger management is now his best hope for bonding with his six-year-old Alfie. Emily can't understand why Jake - who seems to have it all - is even there. Jake can't understand why Alfie - who never likes strangers - lights up around spikey Emily. Everything they think about each other is about to...

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 ...

The Family Tree  by Sairish Hussain On my blog today I have the pleasure of  sharing with you............ The Family Tree  I would like to thank HQ DIGITAL and Sairish Hussain for inviting me on the blog tour. 🧡📚🧡📚🧡📚🧡📚🧡📚🧡📚🧡📚🧡📚 Book Information  Your roots can always lead you home… Amjad  cradles his baby daughter in the middle of the night. He has no time to mourn his wife’s death. Saahil and Zahra, his two small children, are relying on him. Amjad vows to love and protect them always.   Years later,  Saahil  and his best friend, Ehsan, have finished university and are celebrating with friends. But when the night turns dangerous, its devastating effects will ripple through the years to come.   Zahra’s  world is alight with politics and activism. But she is now her father’s only source of comfort, and worries she’ll never have time for her own aspirations. Life has taken her sm...

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...

The Vagabond Mother  by Tracey Scott-Townsend On my blog today I have the pleasure of  sharing with you........ The Vagabond Mother   I would like to thank Kelly at Love Book Group Tours and Tracey Scott-Townsend for inviting me on the blog tour. 💚🎄💚☃️💚🎄💚☃️💚🎄💚☃️💚🎄💚☃️💚🎄 Book Information Not every Vagabond is a Castaway...  Maya Galen’s oldest son, Jamie, left home eight years ago after a massive row with his parents and now Joe, her youngest child and apple of her eye, has cut off all contact with them too. Called to Australia to identify the body of a young man, Maya is given her son’s journal. After a sleepless night she decides that the only thing she can do is follow in Joe’s footsteps and try to discover her most basic human self . Eschewing a monetary lifestyle, from now on she must rely on her physical and emotional strength to survive.  Following Joe’s hand-drawn maps and journal entries, sh...

Blog Tour XYZ by William Knight On my blog today I have the pleasure of  sharing with you.......... XYZ   I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources and  William Knight for inviting me on the blog tour. 🎆🔥🍁🎆🔥🍁🎆🔥🍁🎆🔥🍁🎆🔥🍁🎆🔥🍁 Book Information Jack Cooper is a depressed, analogue throwback; a cynical, alcoholic Gen-Xer whose glory days are behind him. He’s unemployed, his marriage has broken down, he’s addicted to internet hook-ups, and is deeply ashamed of his son Geronimo, who lives life dressed as a bear. When Jack’s daughter engineers a job for him at totally-lit tech firm Sweet, he’s confronted by a Millennial and Zoomer culture he can’t relate to. He loathes every detail – every IM, gif and emoji – apart from Freya, twenty years his junior and addicted to broadcasting her life on social media. Can Jack evolve to fit in at Sweet, or will he remain a dinosaur stuck in the 1980s? And will he halt his slide ...

Blog Tour  The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore  by Kim Fu On my blog today I have the pleasure of sharing with you..... The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore  I would like to thank Lucy at Legend Press and Kim Fu for inviting me on the blog tour. 🏕🛶☠🏕🛶☠🏕🛶☠🏕🛶☠🏕🛶☠🏕 Book Information  A group of young girls descend on a sleepaway camp where  their days are filled with swimming lessons, friendship bracelets,  and songs by the fire. Filled with excitement and nervous energy,  they set off on an overnight kayaking trip to a nearby island. But  before the night is over, they find themselves stranded, with no  adults to help them survive or guide them home. The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore traces these five girls through  and beyond this fateful trip. We see them through successes  and failures, loving relationships and heartbreaks; we see what  it means to find, and define, oneself, and th...

Blog Tour  ​ The Forgotten Children  by Isabella Muir ​ On my blog today I have the pleasure of sharing with you....... ​The Forgotten Children  I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources and Isabella Muir for inviting me on the blog tour. 📚💕📚💕📚💕📚💕📚💕📚💕📚💕📚💕 Book Information   A woman’s search to find her son uncovers the shocking truth about one of Britain’s darkest periods Struggling with the demons of her past, Emily is a children’s author with a dark secret, and a guilt that threatens to consume her.  For twenty years she has lived in Brighton, England, trying to forget the day they took her baby from her, just hours after he was born.  But now, in the summer of 1987, she decides to begin the search for her son.  Emily takes refuge in a small town on the Isle of Anglesey to plan the search, where she meets Walter, a gentle stranger, who helps her with his words of wisdom and kindnes...