Dash Fan Book Reviews

The Not So Golden Oldies  by Liz Davies I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷    Book Information When retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be… Meena Fisher is a middle-aged medical secretary with a husband, two grandchildren, a house to run, and more hobbies than you can shake a stick at. She is perfectly happy with her life just the way it is. Her husband, Oscar, is a middle-aged workaholic who spends his days either in the office or on the golf course. With his wife looking after both him and the house, he gets on with the business of making money. He is also perfectly happy with his life just the way it is. They share a house, and they sometimes eat dinner together if they can both manage to be in the same place at the same time. Aside from that, their paths rarely cross. The arrangement suits them both. But when Oscar is forced to take early retirement and decides it’s only fair ...

A Winter Wedding at  Mistletoe Gate Farm  by Helen J Rolfe ​ I would like to thank Rachel Random for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄 Book Information It's almost Christmas in Heritage Cove - the village tree is all lit-up, the bakery is full of festive treats, the tea rooms and waffle shack are welcoming locals inside out of the cold, and for some of the residents of the Cove, snow might not be the only thing they're wishing for this year... Tilly is overjoyed when an estranged relative comes to Heritage Cove wanting to make amends. But as she lets him in to her life and Tilly’s Bits ‘n’ Pieces - the shop she owns and loves - her friends aren’t so sure whether everything is quite as it seems. Benjamin’s parents run Mistletoe Gate Farm, selling Christmas trees, wreaths and mistletoe. Benjamin has always thought his family was as firmly rooted in the ground as the rows of Norway Spruce and Fraser Firs. But when h...

A Little Piece of Paradise  by T.A Williams I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻    Book Information The inheritance of a lifetime... with a catch When  Sophie’s  uncle leaves her a castle in the Italian Riviera in his will, she can’t believe her luck. The catch? She and her estranged sister,  Rachel , must live there together for three months in order to inherit it.   Having worked in Rome for four years, Sophie’s excited to revisit to Italy, even if it reignites memories of a cheating ex who soon learns of her return and wants to rekindle their spark. Sophie realises that distance does indeed make the heart grow fonder – but for her friend back home,  Chris , who she discovers is more to her than just a friend. With the clock ticking, can Sophie and Rachel stick it out and heal old wounds, or are the sisters destined to go their own way at the end of the three mont...

TRUTH GAMES  by Caroline England  Thank you to Little Brown Book Group and  Piatkus   for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily.   🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information She tries hard to be the perfect mother, the perfect partner, the perfect daughter - but Ellie never seems to get it right. When an old friend from university re-enters her life, dark memories from Ellie's past begin to resurface. As Ellie starts to unravel some shocking and sinister realities, she realises that she must choose between keeping the family she loves - and facing the truth. From the Top Ten ebook bestselling author, this twisty psychological thriller will have you hooked from the first page to the last jaw-dropping twist. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Author Bio via Amazon  Caroline England  was born and brought up in Yorkshire and studied Law at the University of Manchester. She was a divorce and professional indemnity lawyer before leavin...

Summer Secrets at Streamside Cottage  by Samantha Tonge 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 A new start can come from the most unexpected places... It's been years since Lizzie Lockhart spoke to her parents. But she was safe in the knowledge she knew everything about them. Once upon a time, they were as close as could be. Until they weren't. After receiving the earth-shattering news of their passing, Lizzie decides it's time to unearth some family secrets and find out just who her parents really were... starting with Streamside Cottage. A cottage Lizzie never knew existed, in a place she's never heard of: the beautiful English village of Leafton. Leaving behind London, and the tattoo parlour she called home, Lizzie finds herself moving to the countryside. Faced with a tight-lipped community, who ...

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...

Preserved by Fiona Sherlock I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour. 🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁  Book Information She's stuck in the past, the killer wants to immortalise his future. When a local farmer announces on social media that he has discovered a bog body in Ardee, the world’s historians are keen to explore the secrets of the life and grisly death of the victim. Antique journalist January Quail is fighting to keep her newspaper job and uncovers far more than she bargained for.  The victim is actually a recent murder, and January uses her nose for the truth to investigate the County Louth town. From shopkeeper to the publican, everyone is a suspect, but when the Gardai can’t find the killer, can January?  Once she sets down the liqueur glass, January gains the confidence of the lead garda investigator. Within days, the case unravels into a much more dangerous situation with a killer on the loose.  Despite the risk,...