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Getting Hers
Donna Hill
St. Martin’s, June 2005
$13.95 US, ISBN 0312281943

Payback is a…

In life, I’m sure we’ve all felt betrayed or wronged by someone or something in some kind of way. Some we feel so frustrated by all that has happened to us, we just want to seek revenge in some shape, form or fashion, from minor to downright evil and deadly. But how many of us actually follow through with it?

Tess, Nicole and Kim, characters in Donna Hill’s Getting Hers, meet by chance when they are trapped in an elevator during a New York City blackout. To pass the time and to keep their minds off their fears, they begin sharing snippets of their lives and the wrongs they’ve endured at the hands of those who they believed loved them.

After the harrowing ordeal is over, the ladies indulge just a little too much in an alcoholic binge. It’s during their drunken stupor that sinister plans are hatched for the ultimate revenge. Tess wants her sister Tracy out of the picture because she is threatening to bring Tess’ very profitable escort business tumbling to the ground. Nicole, aka Nikki, wants her boyfriend Trust to pay for letting her take the fall for a crime she didn’t commit. Kim’s husband Troy is standing in her way of happiness with her new lover, so he’s got to go. From there, Hill takes readers on a gripping, action-packed, jaw dropping journey that keeps you guessing to the very end.

This is actually my second time reading Getting Hers, and I enjoyed it just as much this time around. Hill’s foray into the mystery/suspense genre is a rousing success, proving that no matter what genre she writes in, she is a force to be reckoned with.

--Renee Williams, All the Buzz