Gretchen McNeil

The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars in Gretchen McNeil’s witty and suspenseful novel about four disparate girls who join forces to take revenge on high school bullies and create dangerous enemies for themselves in the process. Bree, Olivia, Kitty, and Margot have nothing in common—at least that’s what they’d like the students and administrators of their elite private school to think. The girls have different goals, different friends, and different lives, but they share one very big secret: They’re all members of Don’t Get Mad, a secret society that anonymously takes revenge on the school’s bullies, mean girls, and tyrannical teachers. When their latest target ends up dead with a blood-soaked “DGM” card in his hands, the girls realize that they’re not as anonymous as they thought—and that someone now wants revenge on them. Soon the clues are piling up, the police are closing in . . . and everyone has something to lose.

Get Even

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Somya Verma

Get Even by Gretchen McNeil is a book about a group of girls who work together in order to prevent bullying cases until suddenly, one of their targets is murdered and DGM is framed for this murder. The book is about the group of girls trying to figure out who it was but the actual murderer is not revealed until the end of the book series. I think that this book was overall a slow book yet exciting in some aspects but it does take awhile for the reader to understand everything that is going on. I do not think that this is a book that I would personally recommend to people but if I had to then I would defiently recommend it to people in the teen range.

Zoe Smolen

Killer cliffhanger. Similar to PLL. Entertaining read.

Lynn Braden

Four girls, all from different cliques form the group called DGM, which stands for "Don't Get Mad!" leading to the rest of the statement and the title of the book, "Get Even." The four girls, Bree, Olivia, Kitty, and Margot meet regularly and use evidence they find about people in school to get revenge for mean or unfair things that they have done to others. Their latest triumph is to show an embarrassing video at a school assembly about Coach Creed who had been bullying students. Their next target was Ronny DeStefano who had made a video of himself taking advantage of a girl who was evidently under the influence and not thinking clearly until he turns up murdered in his own bed. What follows is a series of events that not only makes their group the number 1 suspects in the murder, but they also begin to question each other.

The beginning of Get Even is a little hard to follow because so many characters are introduced all at once, and this made it even more difficult because the story is told in third person omniscient point of view, but despite a rough beginning, the book becomes more and more intriguing as it goes along. The generic manila envelopes delivered sporadically to each girl containing new clues to the mystery not only add secrets being kept by each girl but also background to their characters. Overall, an enjoyable story. Beware - this book ends in a cliffhanger with many questions left unanswered.

Get Even

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