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Four girls who have nothing in common, Bree, Kitty, Olivia, and Margot, form a secret group called DGM: Don’t Get Mad. It’s a group designed to take revenge against school bullies, no matter if they’re students or teachers. They have strict rules against any kind of contact at school so no one will ever associate them together. Then their latest target is murdered and a bloody card with DGM is left at the scene, making the group the prime suspect. Each girl starts getting anonymous envelopes proving that someone knows about their identity. If they want to clear their name, they’re going to have to find a way for the identity of DGM to stay secret – and catch the real killer.

I’ve seen this book compared to a couple others already, Pretty Little Liars is right in the description, and also Burn for Burn. The closest I’ve come to either of those series is watching a few episodes of Pretty Little Liars on MuchMusic so I’m not going to get into how this book compares to them.

I got sucked into the book way more easily than I thought I would. The plot kept me guessing as to who could be behind the envelopes, who could be behind the murder, was it the same person, was it a group? So many questions.

I really liked that, even though the girls were on the same page about DGM, they weren’t really friends and, in fact, at the beginning it was hard to like them at times. But as the book went on, there was a change were it seemed like they realized they needed each other and maybe, they could be friends. It made for an interesting dynamic as the book went on. They weren’t friends, all they had was their pact that nothing said in a DGM meeting would be revealed, but when faced with murder, they realized they barely knew each other so how could their pact be trusted.

There were a lot of characters in the book. It was told in alternating POVs of the four main girls but there were also their friends, and each girl had her own separate group. There were only a few characters that interacted with all four girls but every character at one point or another made themselves suspicious, maybe they were the murderer.

There were times it felt a little cheesy and over dramatic but I actually enjoyed those parts. They reminded me of old murder mystery movies that I love to watch when they come on TV. There was also a lot of teasing going on in the book. Every time I thought some questions were about to be answered, I was left with more questions. So frustrating! But in a ‘I want the next book now’ kind of way.