After reading the First Look of How to Play Dead, I was super excited to actually win a copy. The cover piqued my interest right away too; so it seems we do judge books by their covers! It started out really well; a promising premise with realistically flawed characters. Although it was obvious quite quickly that it would be a 'slow burner', I had hoped it would pick up in pace, intensity, atmosphere as the story progressed. However this sadly wasn't really the case. Whilst the story did gain a bit more momentum, I had already figured out what direction it was taking and how it was going to end. I admittedly did skim read large chunks as well, especially once I realised my strong hunch was in fact correct. A bit disappointing really so only gets 2 stars from me