Dash Fan Book Reviews

The Ticklemore Tattler  by Liz Davies I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information Sometimes you have to write your own future… The life of former journalist Juliette Seymour has been quiet and unassuming. Up until now, she’s been concentrating on running the local newspaper and raising her daughter.  But all that is about to change when Juliette is informed that the Ticklemore Tattler is to fold and that she’ll be out of a job. She begins to wonder whether she can buy the newspaper and try to make a go of it herself. Aware that she needs some advice she contacts Oliver Pascoe, little knowing that when her old colleague re-enters her life, his help isn’t the only thing she wants him for! As she begins to fall in love, however, what she doesn’t realise is that Oliver has something he’s keeping from her. A gorgeously uplifting story, perfect for fans of Holly Hepburn, Heidi Swain, an...

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...

Project Kaitlyn  by Grayson Avery I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information Meet Kaitlyn Colby, a clumsy, inappropriate blurter with self-esteem issues, but also quite handy with an axe. She's certainly no superhero, but she fights the battles of a single mom with sweet snarkasm. Between work and pining for and co-parenting with her man-child ex (is there any other kind?), Kaitlyn has no time to find that special someone. And if she did, would he really want her anyway? Kaitlyn's sister and friends (The Sweet Water Circle) say yes, so following a typical Kaitlyn slip up, The Circle intervenes to force her out of the funk that she fell into following her unwanted divorce.   When Kaitlyn makes a decision to pursue her advertising career over love, she tumbles (like no tumble you've ever seen…or heard) into the life of hunky, bay breeze-drinking Hunter Dixon, an ad exec who is intr...

Stop That Dinosaur  by Alex English and Ben Cort I would like to thank Kaleidoscopic Tours for inviting me on this wonderful  Blog Tour. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information    Title: Stop That Dinosaur Author: Alex English Genre: Picture Book Publication Date: 4 th March 2021 Page Count: 32 Publisher: Bloomsbury I was in my Granny's kitchen eating extra-special cake, when the walls began to tremble and the roof began to SHAKE. KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!  Ring! Ring! Ring!  Oh MY - a dino's at the door. And now it's taken Granny . SOMEONE STOP THAT DINOSAUR! Chase down the GRAN-NAPPING brontosaurus in this rollicking, rhyming, ROAR-some romp. Can you catch the naughty dinosaur and get back to Granny's house before Mum comes home at six o'clock? From Alex English and Ben Cort, the bestselling illustrator of  Alien Loves Underpants , comes an irresistibly rib-tickling book that kids will want to read again and again . and AGAIN! ...

We Are The Beatles   by Zoë Tucker Thank you to Quarto Publishing ( Wide Eyed Editions) and Netgalley for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information This inspiring picture book tells the story of the friendship between Ringo, Paul, George, and John, and how their unique talents came together to make something brilliant. In 1957, a boy named Paul met a boy named John. John was funny and confident, while Paul was quiet and steady, but one thing they had in common was a love and talent for songwriting.  When they were joined by George and Ringo, they formed the band whose name would soon be known across the world: The Beatles. Together, the Fab Four became the world’s best-loved band, drawing huge crowds to packed-out stadiums. But even they got nervous sometimes, and in those times they knew they could rely on each other. Through the power of friendship, The Beatles made their biggest dreams come true and s...

The Tipsy Grandma…  An Anthology of Thirty, Made-from-Scratch, “Boozy” Desserts!  by the Editors of CakeChatter Thank you to Cake Chatter and Netgalley  for this copy which I reviewed honestly  and voluntarily . 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information This is a fun anthology (collection) of "adult" desserts designed to achieve three goals: One: they had to be made from scratch. Two: they had to incorporate all-natural ingredients and three: they had to be made with alcohol, therefore making them “tipsy!”. As an added bonus, we have included the author’s notes about their recipe, when applicable, and comments from Dough-Punchers(tm), or folks who have made these recipes with success. Nutritional information is included when available. And, as with all our books, we have edited the recipes so that they’re easier to follow and we have developed a different format, which we think is more conducive to your baking success—with the probability of fewer e...

Careless  by Kirsty Capes Thank you to Orion Publishing and Netgalley  for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information Sometimes it's easy to fall between the cracks... At 3.04 p.m. on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess finds out she's pregnant. She could tell her social worker Henry, but he's useless. She should tell her foster mother, Lisa, but she won't understand. She really ought to tell Boy, but she hasn't spoken to him in weeks. Bess knows more than anyone that love doesn't come without conditions. But this isn't a love story... 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  My Review 4☆ A Raw, Thought Provoking, Gritty & Enthralling YA Read. A Page Turner! Wow I finished reading this book 2 days ago and after processing the book I feel ready to write my thoughts on this wonderful and heart-rending story. First of all I want to start by saying this book is very much a story of two halves. The first bei...

The First Man  by Alex Kelly I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information Shane Do you want to know what it means to live like me? It means being forced not to look at him, not to touch him, not to be left alone in the same room as him. Not to seek him out. Not to want him. Not to love him. Do you know how it feels to spend your entire life pretending to be someone else? Do you know what it’s like to love someone who doesn’t want to be loved? I’ll tell you how it feels. It feels as if you’re living in constant torment: you know which path you should follow, but you also know that, if you follow that path, you can never turn back. And I can’t do that to him. Every day I come back, because I know that he’s waiting for me. Every day I promise him that he will never have to live without me. Andy Do you know what it means to live like me? It means being forced not to touch him, not to kiss h...