Dash Fan Book Reviews

Dastardly Deeds at St Bride's  by Debbie Young Thank you to Netgalley and Boldwood Books for this copy which I reviewed honestly  and voluntarily. 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷    Book Information For anyone who loved St Trinian’s – old or new – or read Malory Towers as a kid. St Brides is the perfect read for you. When Gemma Lamb takes a job at a quirky English girls’ boarding school, she believes she’s found the perfect escape route from her controlling boyfriend – until she discovers the rest of the staff are hiding sinister secrets: • Hairnet, the eccentric headmistress who doesn't hold with academic qualifications • Oriana Bliss, Head of Maths and master of disguise • Joscelyn Spryke, the suspiciously rugged Head of PE • Geography teacher Mavis Brook, surreptitiously selling off the library books • creepy night watchman Max Security, with his network of hidden tunnels Even McPhee, the school cat, is leading a double life. Tucked away i...

Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl  by Joya Goffney I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Monique lives a perfect life as a preacher’s daughter, and girlfriend of the town’s golden boy. But its not that simple. She’s torn between her parents, who want her to remain their pure, virginal daughter, and her boyfriend, Dom, who wants to explore the more intimate side of their relationship.  Tired of waiting, Dom breaks up with Monique, spurring her to discover she has a medical condition that make her far from perfect. With the help of Sasha, an overly zealous church girl, and Reggie, the town’s bad boy, she concocts a plan to win Dom back. But along the way, she must face some home truths: maybe she shouldn’t be fixing her body to please a boy, maybe Sasha is the friend she needed all along and maybe Reggie isn’t so bad after all… Purchase Link - https://lnk.to/ConfessionsAllege...

Love is the Answer  by Ben Craib I would like to thank Zooloo's Blog Tours        for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Love Is The Answer tells the story of grieving seventeen-year-old Scarlett who falls in love with a young ecstasy dealer and DJ and embraces his lifestyle of raves, pills, and underground parties. Together they’re like two wires completing an electrical circuit - with him she’s lit up, happy and whole - away from him dead. But when he brutally betrays her she is forced to confront the toxic river of anger they’ve both been trying so hard to avoid. Love Is The Answer explores the turbulence of first love mixed together with the pressure pot of the complicated effects of grief. All publisher profits will go to the mental health charity MIND Buy Links Amazon UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Answer-Powerful-beautiful-Fiction-ebook/dp/B09VH8VMP6/ Amazon US - https://www.amazon.com/Love-A...

Our Bloody Pearl  by D. N. Bryn  I received this book to read and review as part of the 2021 BBNYA competition and the BBNYA tours organised by the TWR Tour team. All opinions are my own, unbiased and honest. 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Publisher: Bryn Books Length: 206 Pages Date Published: 26th July 2018 The ocean is uncontrollable and dangerous. But to the sirens who swim the warm island waters, it’s a home more than worth protecting from the humans and their steam-propelled ships. Between their hypnotic voices and the strength of their powerful tails, sirens have little to fear. That is, until the ruthless pirate captain, Kian, creates a device to cancel out their songs. Perle was the first siren captured, and while all since have either been sold or killed, Kian still keeps them prisoner. Though their song is muted and their tail paralyzed, Perle’s hope for escape rekindles as another pirating vessel seizes Kian’s ship. This new captain seems differe...

What Happened to Coco  by V.B Furlong  I would like to thank Zooloo's Blog Tours       for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄 Book Information When a girl disappears, long-buried secrets resurface… Coco is missing. Her room’s a mess, and her phone is left behind in her dorm at Lainsbury Hall School Ella, Coco’s childhood best friend, is desperate for her to return, although she knows that if she ever sees Coco again, there’ll be a lot of explaining to do. Bea knows that her new group of friends attracts drama, and she thinks she has the last shred of common sense between them all. Only, if that was true, she would leave Genevieve, her toxic ex, well alone. Conrad is confident that Coco will return safe and well. Only, the way his secrets are unravelling, he’s worried he won’t be when this is all over. Harrison and Coco are the perfect couple. Everyone knows that. But looks can be misleading. Even the sma...

You'll Be the Death of Me by Karen M. McManus I would like to thank Write Reads Blog Tours for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄 Book Information Publisher: Penguin Length: 336 Pages Publishing: 30 th November 2021 From the author of One of Us Is Lying comes a brand new addictive thriller. Ivy, Mateo and Cal used to be close - best friends back in middle school. Now all they have in common is a bad day. So for old time's sake they skip school together - one last time. But when the trio spot Brian 'Boney' Mahoney ditching class too, they follow him - right into a murder scene. They all have a connection to the victim. And they're ALL hiding something. When their day of freedom turns deadly, it's only a matter of time before the truth comes out . . . It's Ferris Bueller's Day Off with murder, perfect for fans of One Of Us Is Lying and A Good Girl's Guide To Murder. This explosive new thriller is i...

Kindreds  by B.B Russell I would like to thank Kate Rock Book Tours for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄 Book Information What do you do when you are faced with the impossible choice between listening to your heart or your head? Sixteen year old Lilah keeps asking herself this exact question. Newly orphaned and moving into foster care, Lilah’s one saving grace is Joey, her deceased twin brother’s childhood best friend who as luck has it, lives next door to her new foster family. The problem is, Joey harbors a secret, one Lilah must find out. When she does, she must decide, will she follow her heart and new found love, Joey, into Nolianna, a secret, mysterious carnival world run only by foster children that is recruiting new members? Or will she listen to her head and follow the clues that Nolianna may not be what it seems. When Sebastian, the future leader of Nolianna sets his sights on having her join, will she even have a ch...