Kayla Perrin, Getting Even

Getting Even

Kayla Perrin

Harlequin Spice, May 2006, $13.95, 400 pp.

ISBN: 0373605072

Though from different walks of life, the three women (Claudia, Annalise, and Lashelle) met at college and have remained friends over the next decades. As they turn thirty, each has male problems feeling as if the respective men in their lives mentally abuse them.

Lashelle divorced David over two years ago when his girlfriend introduced herself as the mother of his child. Now he wants Lachelle back and is stalking her, though she tells him it is over.

Claudia has been seeing Adam for four years. He owns her heart, but with their nuptials in six weeks, he has major marital doubts.

Five years married to Charles, photographer Annalise is wondering what happened to their relationship. Increasingly they grow apart and the passion they once shared seems dead.

Angry with treatment from the men who should treasure them, the trio bond in their need of GETTING EVEN with males that abused their efforts to please them.

The tale rotates perspective between the three lead females, so for much of the novel, the audience actually has a trio of stories, until near the end when their schemes for vengeance bring the subplots together. This technique makes for fascinating comparisons between how the women cope with male problems, but also never full develops or engages the men. Readers will understand the motives of the women, as they on the other hand are three dimensional. Filled with intimate relations and the related "vernacular", fans of contemporary girl loves boy, boy mistreats girl, girl avenges mistreatment tales will want to read this hot spicy novel.