Dash Fan Book Reviews

The Cheap Dates Club  by Lottie Brook Thank you to Harper Collins and Netgalley for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷  Book Information Two broke strangers. Two broken hearts. Two happily-ever-afters for the price of one? Isla and Leigh are starting to think love is  not  worth it. Until they both see an ad in the gazette for a new dating service, which vows to help skint singles ‘find love for free’ while giving back to the community. The dates on offer range from the classic meet cute (dog walking) to the less-than-cute (litter picking)… but when Isla is matched with Leigh, she’s surprised by how quickly sparks begin to fly. Being a cheap date is nothing to be ashamed of. But will the price of Leigh’s past heartbreak – or a suave rival offering Isla a more lavish lifestyle – keep them apart? Sometimes, even low-cost romance is high stakes… 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷  My Review 4☆ A Quirky, ligh...

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...

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...

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 Italian Job  by Kathryn Freeman I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Dream job. Dream house. Fake fiancé.  A year in a gorgeous Italian castle… When Anna Roberts’ life implodes, an online search leads her to an ad for the ultimate dream job – management of a gorgeous castle on the shores of Lake Como, accommodation included. The only catch? Anna can’t do it alone… …With the last man on earth she’d choose! The castle owners will only accept a couple as caretakers, which means Anna needs a man on her arm at the interview. Enter her neighbour, Jake Tucker. Though Anna and Jake have never seen eye-to-eye, Jake’s had a rough few years and an escape to Italy sounds ideal. Yet, when they get the job and jet off, Anna and Jake face an unexpected challenge. Pretending to be a couple is difficult … but pretending the tension simmering between them doesn’t exist is quickly proving ...

Confessions of A Helicopter Mummy by Catherine Brunton  I would like to thank Zooloo's Blog Tours and SpellBound Books for my copy and inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Fun-loving, intelligent, sexy journalist and single mum... seeks companionship (ideally), love (possibly), sex (definitely maybe!); laughter (compulsory).... with like-minded, clever, cute middle-aged single man (no ‘still-married-but-my-wife-doesn’t-get-me’s need apply) Ideally based in the SW… Parenting journalist Anni is 46 and mum to teenage daughter, Cassie. It’s two years since her philandering first (and only) love Joel walked out taking the last of her self-confidence with him and she has remained resolutely single ever since. Her friends decide it’s high time she was back in the dating game; they set up a Tinder profile to encourage her to venture out of her slippers and into her Louboutains. But Anni is woefully unprepared for the virtual world of ro...

Wedding Wobbles  by Amanda Paull   I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Laura and Ben have survived all manner of family mayhem. They are, against the odds, still together. A perfect wedding and happy ever after are on the horizon. Or are they? After no end of spokes in their wheels, our favourite lovebirds have named the day. A small do in a lovely venue, with a handful of family and friends to help them celebrate. So where does the ungrateful pasty-loving woman come in? And when Laura and Ben are wrestling with scraggy flowers and rum-soaked fruit cake, where are Maureen and Fenella? If you enjoyed the first four stories in the  Scott Family  series of romantic mayhem, you’ll love  Wedding Wobbles , the final instalment. Download this funny, heart-warming novella today to find out whether Laura and Ben get their perfect wedding, or their families finall...