Tom and Esme have been together for 10 years, for their anniversary Esme decides that they will play a game, the rules are simple, for every hour of the day, they must write down and remember their most significant memories, not the best moments, but the most significant, 1 memory for every hour of the day, for 24 hours.

I’d like to say that this was filled with hearts and flowers and fluffy unicorns, but alas is it a real look on love, not the love portrayed in books and movies.

We go back to the beginning of when they first met and how they became a couple, and travel with them throughout their time together.

I wasn’t too fussed on Esme at the beginning, she was a bit too bossy for my liking, and she also had these rules that Tom was supposed to stick to, and didn’t have much of a say in, I warmed to her later on though.

We also get to see how hard it is to live with someone with a mental illness, and how bloody hard it is to keep a relationship going, I loved that it didn’t shy away from anything, and there are some really raw subjects in the book to deal with.

It is about love, life and even though you know someone inside out, there is still a part of you that is scared of being rejected by the one person that you feel completes you.

It was a pretty short read (288 pgs), but it is packed full of content and I flew through the pages and loved it, it was like looking through a photo album, and getting snapshots of each picture you pick up.

**Thank you to NetGalley, the Author and Orion Publishing Group for a copy of this book**

This is a book that will appeal to people who love a good cosy mystery, it really reminded me of watching a Murder She Wrote episode.

Judith Potts is 77 years old and lives in a huge house on the river bank in Marlow. she still works but does it more as a hobby creating crosswords for the local newspaper, and she’s a bit of a local celebrity for that.

She’s a very active 77 year old, and loves nothing better than to go for an evening swim in the river Thames that backs onto her house.

It is while she is swimming one evening that she hears the gunshot, after speaking to the police and then finding nothing amiss, Judith knows that she will have to do some investigating herself.

After rummaging around and finding that there was indeed a murder, her and two friends that she meets along the way, do a very good job of not minding their own business, and trying to solve the murder.

But after a second body is found, Judith, and the rest of the Marlow Murder Club, realise that the quaint village of Marlow, could actually harbour a serial killer, and they are just the people to figure out who it is!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it was quick and easy to read, and a lot different to the usual gore filled thrillers that I am used to reading.

If you like books such as Agatha Christie or Miss Marple then I think you will thoroughly enjoy this book, I hope the author turns it into a series, I’d love to see Judith and the girls again.

**Thank you to HQ stories for sending me a digital copy of this book**

Book: The Thirteenth Step

Genre: Horror

Type: Audiobook.

Book rating: ☆☆☆☆

Narration rating: ☆☆☆

Review

I received this audio book for free for an honest review, thank you to the Author.

I was a little worried about reading another Zombie book after being really disappointed with Feed!

Are you a recovering acoholic? An ex drug user? A victim of some sort of solvent abuse? Then these words will come as a surprise to you YOU ARE THE LUCKY ONES!!!!

The reason for this, you carry the gene!! The gene that stops you from being smelt by the zombies "deadheads" that are taking over the world.

This was a very cleverly written book, it makes a good discussion point, in what would stop you being found by zombies (if they were real obviously)

As well as 8 people trying to find their way through to Mexico, these poor guys can't get a break after a nuclear station becomes compromised (due to no one working them anymore) and the air turns toxic.

The characters are written really well and you hear the back stories of why and how they became addicts.

After finding a camp full of (ex) addicts on the way, the gang finally find a safe place.

The books ending was a little bit too saccharine sweet for me, but I also love a HAE, so to be honest it ended how it should have done.

If you've had the unfortunate misfortune of ever meeting, or marrying a narcissist, then this lady is the one to check out.

If you are, or think you are in a relationship with one, then I highly recommend bingeing her YouTube videos, and reading her other book Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Me? I went!