I love a YA thriller and Let’s Play Murder is a refreshing take on the murder mystery genre. I’ve not read anything quite like it before and I flew through it at an astonishing pace - addictive just as gaming can be! 

Ever imagined being placed into a virtual reality that you can’t escape until you’ve solved a mystery? That’s exactly what Let’s Play Kill is all about. When Veronica wakes in the snow, she has no idea what has happened, where she is or what lies ahead and then she discovers she is in the Game. 

The Game is a viral, dark web VR game which draws in players at random. It’s a simple concept: solve the murder mystery and win a huge prize! Easy, right? Did I mention you can’t just leave The Game? You have to play it through. Before long the VR world begins to crumble around them and one of the players dies for real upping the ante big time. Throw in a dash of creepy dead sister ghost and this book gave me spine tingling shivers on multiple occasions which I wasn’t expecting at all.

Veronica, Charlie, Nate, Yasmin and Aaron are a great bunch of complex and layered characters. They each have qualities you’ll like and dislike and they all give you reasons to trust and mistrust them at varying points of the game which I think was really cleverly constructed. I don’t want to say too much about them as there were some seriously brilliant plot twists around the different characters which had me gobsmacked.

Spine-tingling, thrilling and addictive. This book is full of twists and turns I didn’t see coming and there were some truly chilling and creepy moments I hadn’t anticipated.  The ending still has me shook and I’m desperate to know what happens next! 

Thank you to the author, publisher and Netgalley for my advanced copy in exchange of a fair and honest review.