Dash Fan Book Reviews

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...

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...

The Vine Witch 🧙‍♀️ By Luanne G. Smith 🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃 Book Information A young witch emerges from a curse to find her world upended in this gripping fantasy set in turn-of-the-century France. For centuries, the vineyards at Château Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help create the world-renowned wine of the Chanceaux Valley. Then the skill of divining harvests fell into ruin when  sorcière  Elena Boureanu was blindsided by a curse. Now, after breaking the spell that confined her to the shallows of a marshland and weakened her magic, Elena is struggling to return to her former life. And the vineyard she was destined to inherit is now in the possession of a handsome stranger. Vigneron Jean-Paul Martel naively favors science over superstition, and he certainly doesn’t endorse the locals’ belief in witches. But Elena knows a hex when she sees one, and the vineyard is covered in them. To stay on and help the v...

Petrichor  by Melanie Rees I would like to thank Blackthorn Book Tours      for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃 Book Information Publisher: Hague Publishing Amazon link: https://www.haguepublishing.com/sample/Petrichor.html Genre:  Young adult fantasy Print length: 147 pages Age range: Young adult Trigger warnings: A suicide which occurred before the action of the story is recalled and provides a driver for the plot Amazon Rating: Not yet published; unrated Reflecting the issues explored in this novel, 15% of the publisher's revenue from the sale of this book will be donated to the charities Rural Aid and Beyond Blue About Petrichor ‘Some things cannot be mended with baling twine.’ Drought has turned the paddocks of Paddle Creek Station to dust. Now the death of Clayton’s older brother has shaken his family to its core and left a gaping hole in Clayton’s memory. A hole his parents won’t even discuss. When...