I found the solution
First off I had to write [fetch-reviews id=”1″]blah[/fetch-reviews] and [fetch-reviews id=”2″]blah[/fetch-reviews]
I don’t know why but that was step one.
Secondly In my shortcode function I did:
require_once(“dbinit.php”);
I am not entirely sure why but on second run it failed there so using just require(“dbinit.php”); and everything worked just dandy.